About
Serena Pei is CTO at Palette, a Y Combinator S26 company, and holds a degree in computer science from MIT.
Serena Pei @spei04
Today we’re launching Palette! Built by MIT AI researchers, Palette unifies fragmented creative tools into a single multimodal generation engine. Now, enterprise teams and content creators can generate, edit, and automate brand-consistent video, ads, and training media entirely https://t.co/0Oi2u8HeNK
Jul 31, 2026 · ♥ 290 · ⇄ 26
Serena Pei @spei04
anyone going to agi summit tomorrow?
Jul 19, 2026 · ♥ 2
Serena Pei @spei04
which model did it best? ↖️ left: Veo 3.1, Google ↗️ top right: Seedance 2.0, ByteDance ↘️ bottom right: Kling 3.0 Pro, Kuaishou prompt: "A dimly lit kitchen late at night. A woman sits across the table from her estranged brother; her voice trembles as she says, 'You left when https://t.co/0gfJo6SbN1
Jul 1, 2026 · ♥ 7
Founder at PaletteYC S26
Intro paths
Serena went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Palette's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Serena can intro founders to Palette's investors below.
Palette's investors · 3
Co-founders at Palette
Experience
- Palette LabsCo-Foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)Research Assistant2026Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Assistant2025 — 2026
- MIT Media LabResearch Assistant2024 — 2026
- MIT School of Engineering6.390 Lab Assistant2024 — 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- AmazonSoftware Engineer Intern (ML)2025Seattle, Washington, United States
- A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchResearch Intern2024Singapore
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering
- Valley Christian SchoolsHigh School
- Harvard Divinity School
Skills & more
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DatabasesJavaScriptJavaC (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)AI ResearchLeadershipLanguages Chinese · English
- Academy Accreditation - AI Agent Fundamentals — Databricks
- Social & Behavioral Research Investigators — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program - Certificate of Completion (GEL1) — Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
- Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals — Databricks
From Serena's professional profile.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology mafia464
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Valley Christian Schools mafia2
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Same school
Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology1,289
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Shared employers
Also worked at Palette Labs2
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Also worked at MIT Media Lab96
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Also worked at MIT School of Engineering3
Also worked at Amazon597
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