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Samuel Marciano

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Weel

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedWeel · YC

About

Samuel Marciano is co-founder and CTO of Weel, a smartphone application offering GPS navigation, dashcam recording, video sharing, and driver assistance features.

LinkedIn ↗

Co-Founder & CTO at WeelYC S24

Intro paths

YC

Samuel went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Weel's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Samuel can intro founders to Weel's investors below.

Weel's investors · 1

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Weel

RKRaphael Krief
Raphael KriefFounder

Experience

  1. ClarifeyeApplied AI Engineercurrent2025 — present
  2. Weel (YC S24)Co-Founder & CTO2024 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. OCUSComputer Vision Engineer2023Paris, Île-de-France, France
  4. Intel CorporationDeep Learning Software Engineer2022Paris, Île-de-France, France
  5. Orange BankData Intelligence2021Paris, Île-de-France, France

Education

  1. Y CombinatorS24
  2. ENS Paris-SaclayMaster 2 (M2) Mathématiques Vision Apprentissage - MVA, Mathematics2022 — 2023
  3. Université Paris CitéMaster M2MO (Ex Dea Laure Elie), Random Modeling2023 — 2024
  4. Centrale LilleEngineering2020 — 2023
  5. Sorbonne UniversitéBi Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science2017 — 2020

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