About
Sunny Kim held engineering and tech leadership roles on machine learning projects at YouTube and Google, and co-founded Seknd, a beauty search platform, before leading engineering and innovation at R.care.
Founder at HumanceYC W21
Intro paths
YC
Sunny went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Sunny can intro founders to Humance's investors below.
Humance's investors · 1
Co-founders at Humance
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Soy HwangCofounder
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Yon Soo ParkFounder
Experience
- HumanceCo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- R.careCo-Foundercurrent2021 — present
- Y CombinatorWinter 2021 Batch2020 — 2021
- SekndCo-Founder2019 — 2020Palo Alto, CA
- GoogleTech Lead, Google Travel User Modeling2016 — 2019Mountain View, CA
- GoogleSoftware Engineer, YouTube Video Ads2014 — 2016Mountain View, CA
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sunny Kim?
- Sunny Kim held engineering and tech leadership roles on machine learning projects at YouTube and Google, and co-founded Seknd, a beauty search platform, before leading engineering and innovation at R.care.
- Where does Sunny Kim work?
- Sunny Kim is Founder of Humance.
- What companies did Sunny Kim found?
- Sunny Kim founded Humance.
- Where did Sunny Kim go to school?
- Sunny Kim studied at Y Combinator (YC W21); Rice University (Computer Science, Computer Vision).
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