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Tunga Bayrak
FounderCEO at Freya · Former Research Analyst at Big Brain Holdings
Istanbul, Türkiye
FoundedFreya · YC
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About
Tunga Bayrak is CEO and co-founder of Freya. He previously worked as an AI research engineer developing visual language models for geometric reasoning and audio transformers, and served as a teaching assistant in the engineering school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also part of an AI research team before leaving.
CEO at FreyaYC S25
Intro paths
Tunga went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Freya's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Tunga Bayrak?
- Tunga Bayrak is CEO and co-founder of Freya. He previously worked as an AI research engineer developing visual language models for geometric reasoning and audio transformers, and served as a teaching assistant in the engineering school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also part of an AI research team before leaving.
- Where does Tunga Bayrak work?
- Tunga Bayrak is CEO of Freya.
- What companies did Tunga Bayrak found?
- Tunga Bayrak founded Freya.
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