Witold de La Chapelle
FounderFounder at Standout
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedStandout · YC
About
Witold de La Chapelle is a software engineer who previously worked at Dropbox, Samsara, and Chime. He co-founded Standout, where he serves as CTO.
Founder at StandoutYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Witold went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Standout's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Witold can intro founders to Standout's investors below.
Standout's investors · 1
Co-founders at Standout
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Alexis AftalionFounder
Experience
- StandoutCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- ChimeSoftware Engineering2021 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- ZarobkyFounder2022 — 2023
- QuantisnowFounder2021 — 2022
- SamsaraSoftware Engineering2019 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- DropboxSoftware Engineering2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- New York University Abu DhabiSoftware Engineering Intern2017Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- New York University Abu DhabiResearch Development Engineering Intern2016Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Skills & more
Distributed Systems5Go4Android Development7Deep LearningCloud ComputingInfrastructureMicroservicesInkscape1GolangGo (Programming Language)Parallel ComputingTypeScript
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KubernetesPythonAmazon Web Services (AWS)JavaJavaScriptHTML5CSSCDatabasesPython (Programming Language)ArduinoNode.jsLanguages English · French · German · Polish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Witold de La Chapelle?
- Witold de La Chapelle is a software engineer who previously worked at Dropbox, Samsara, and Chime. He co-founded Standout, where he serves as CTO.
- Where does Witold de La Chapelle work?
- Witold de La Chapelle is Founder of Standout.
- What companies did Witold de La Chapelle found?
- Witold de La Chapelle founded Standout.
- Where did Witold de La Chapelle go to school?
- Witold de La Chapelle studied at Represented by Standout; Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); New York University Abu Dhabi (Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering).
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