About
Will Zhang is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Vision Lab. He holds an MSE in AI and Robotics from UPenn's GRASP Lab and previously worked as a founding engineer at Greyscale AI and Bestmow.
Founder at Vision LabYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Will went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Vision Lab's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Will can intro founders to Vision Lab's investors below.
Vision Lab's investors · 6
500 GlobalSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2026Angel InvestBerlin · $135K checks · since 2015Earlybird Venture CapitalBerlin · $540K – $12M checks · since 2015Foothill VenturesLos Altos · $100K – $10M checks · since 2026Race CapitalPalo Alto · $250K – $2M checks · since 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025
Co-founders at Vision Lab
Experience
- vision lab | YC X25Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- LineWise (YC X25)Co-Foundercurrent2025 — present
- BESTMOWRobotic Software Engineer, Project Lead2023 — 2025
- Marchant Schmidt, Inc.AI Software Lead2022 — 2023
- Greyscale AIFounding Software Engineer, Investor2020 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- University of PennsylvaniaDeformable Objects Manipulation2019 — 2020United States
- University of PennsylvaniaSafe Reinforcement Learning (RL) & Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning2019 — 2020
- University of PennsylvaniaGraduate Teaching Assistant2019
- Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaComputational Dermatology: Hair Loss Image Segmentation2018
- Faculty of Engineering, University of AlbertaUndergraduate Research Assistant2017Edmonton, AB, Canada
Skills & more
Business Development7Start-up Leadership7startups9Deep Learning1Computer VisionProof of ConceptTechnical Project LeadershipKubernetes3Python4OpenCV1研究数据分析
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程序设计算法C++Microsoft OfficeSQLMicrosoft ExcelMATLABLaTeXAutoCADJavaMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft WordLanguages English · Mandarin · Wenzhouness
- Inbound Sales — HubSpot Academy
- Content Marketing Foundations — LinkedIn
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Will Wenbo Zhang?
- Will Zhang is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Vision Lab. He holds an MSE in AI and Robotics from UPenn's GRASP Lab and previously worked as a founding engineer at Greyscale AI and Bestmow.
- Where does Will Wenbo Zhang work?
- Will Wenbo Zhang is Founder of Vision Lab.
- What companies did Will Wenbo Zhang found?
- Will Wenbo Zhang founded Vision Lab.
- Where did Will Wenbo Zhang go to school?
- Will Wenbo Zhang studied at Y Combinator; Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania (MSE, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence).
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