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Stepan Parunashvili

Founder

Founder at Instant

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedInstant · YC

About

Stepan Parunashvili founded an early-stage startup in China before joining Wit.ai as an engineer working on natural language processing APIs; Wit.ai was later acquired by Facebook. He subsequently spent time at Airbnb and now runs Instant with a co-founder.

Founder at InstantYC S22

Intro paths

YC

Stepan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Instant's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

In turn, Stepan can intro founders to Instant's investors below.

Co-founders at Instant

JAJoe Averbukh

Experience

  1. InstantCTOcurrent2022 — present
  2. JS Capital VenturesCTOcurrent2020 — present
  3. AirbnbStaff Software Engineer2019 — 2020
  4. FacebookSenior Software Engineer2017 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  5. FacebookSoftware Engineer2015 — 2017
  6. Wit.aiSoftware Engineer2014 — 2015Palo Alto
  7. Startups in ChinaCo-Founder2011 — 2014

Skills & more

Copywriting33Entrepreneurship41Web Development91SEO17HTML 541Marketing16User Experience21E-commerce15Start-ups23SQL51PostgreSQL34Git48
+7 moreRuby on RailsRubyJavaScriptCSSBackbone.jsSocial Media MarketingHTML5

Languages English · French · Georgian · Manadrin

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Stepan Parunashvili?
Stepan Parunashvili founded an early-stage startup in China before joining Wit.ai as an engineer working on natural language processing APIs; Wit.ai was later acquired by Facebook. He subsequently spent time at Airbnb and now runs Instant with a co-founder.
Where does Stepan Parunashvili work?
Stepan Parunashvili is Founder of Instant.
What companies did Stepan Parunashvili found?
Stepan Parunashvili founded Instant.
Where did Stepan Parunashvili go to school?
Stepan Parunashvili studied at Y Combinator.

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