Fundraising Fox

Yujian Yao

Founder

Founder at Floot

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedFloot Β· YC

About

Yujian Yao was a staff engineer at Retool responsible for rebuilding the runtime infrastructure, and previously served as an early engineer at Asana. He is a gold medalist in the National Olympiad Informatics in Singapore.

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yuj @yyjhao

Claude cowork is actually a good coding agent if you give it a coding MCP

Jul 20, 2026 Β· β™₯ 1 Β· ⇄ 1

yuj @yyjhao

OpenAI and SpaceXAI both shipped new models today. GPT-5.6 was held two weeks for a government safety review before it could go public - the Department of Commerce literally had to sign off before release. Anthropic's Fable 5 got hit with the same thing last month, pulled

Jul 9, 2026 Β· β™₯ 6 Β· ⇄ 3

yuj @yyjhao

Fable is the new opus, opus is the new sonnet

Jul 8, 2026

Founder at FlootYC S25

Intro paths

YC

Yujian went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, General Partner at Y Combinator β€” the partner who ran Floot's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β†—

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In turn, Yujian can intro founders to Floot's investors below.

Floot's investors Β· 3

468 CapitalLombardstreet VenturesY Combinator

Co-founders at Floot

ELEdward Look
Edward LookFounder

Experience

  1. FlootCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2025 β€” presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. South Park CommonsMember2024 β€” 2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. RetoolStaff Software Engineer2021 β€” 2024San Francisco, California, United States
  4. AsanaProgram Lead (Technical Lead) - Content Experience2019 β€” 2021San Francisco Bay Area
  5. AsanaSoftware Engineer2018 β€” 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  6. AsanaSoftware Engineer2016 β€” 2018Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
  7. AsanaSoftware Engineer Intern2015San Francisco
  8. DropboxSoftware Engineer Wintern2015San Francisco
  9. DropboxSoftware Engineering Intern2014San Francisco Bay Area
  10. NonStop GamesSoftware Engineer Intern2012 β€” 2013Singapore
  11. A*STARAttachment under a H3 research program2010

Education

  1. National University of SingaporeBachelor of Computing, Computer Science2012 β€” 2016
  2. Hwa Chong Institution'A' Level, General Paper2010 β€” 2011

Skills & more

Languages Chinese Β· English Β· Japanese

From Yujian's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended National University of Singapore247

Justin HallPartner at Golden Gate VenturesMahati SridharPartner, Rise of the Rest at RevolutionCeline XiaoInvestor at DN CapitalSofia DahouneInvestor at DaphniYi Min LohInvestment Associate at Burda Principal InvestmentsSean LooInvestment Analyst at Burda Principal Investments

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Shared employers

Also worked at Floot1

Edward LookFounder at Floot

Also worked at South Park Commons36

Chase AdamPartner at Very Serious VenturesAndrew ParkerGeneral Partner at Spero VenturesKelsey FloresChief Financial Officer at Slipstream InvestorsJaclyn Rice NelsonCo-founder and part-time GP at Coalition OperatorsBala ChandrasekaranPartner at Alt CapitalRuchi SanghviPartner and Founding Member at South Park Commons

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Also worked at Retool8

Ghazi MasoodVenture Partner at Ansa CapitalBryan SchreierPartner at Sequoia CapitalDavid DworskyPrincipal at Emergence Capital PartnersGeorge KuntharaInvestor at Emergence Capital PartnersJustin GageVP of Marketing at Amplify PartnersSerena LiuInvestor at Hummingbird Ventures

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Also worked at Asana12

Saket SrivastavaInvestor at Foundation CapitalEmily KramerVenture Partner at Rackhouse Venture Management LpKrista CoppermanOperating Partner at TCVJenny ThaiHead of Marketing at Pear VCBen ChubaPricing Advisor at Modern TechnicalKenny Van ZantOperating Advisor at Elsewhere Partners

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