Where does Zeyneb Kaya work?

Zeyneb Kaya is Co-Founder & CTO of Topological.

What companies did Zeyneb Kaya found?

Zeyneb Kaya founded Topological.

Where did Zeyneb Kaya go to school?

Zeyneb Kaya studied at Stanford University (Master's Degree, Computer Science); Stanford University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science / Mathematics / Physics); Saratoga High School.

Zeyneb Kaya

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Topological

Saratoga, California, United States

FoundedTopological · YC

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Paul KwanunlockedZeyneb: together at Stanford University (2021–2026)

×4Zeyneb: together at Stanford University

×4Zeyneb: together at OpenAI

Zeyneb: together at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)

About

Zeyneb Kaya studied computer science, physics, and mathematics at Stanford, conducting research in reinforcement learning, pretraining, efficient algorithms, synthetic data, and physics. She is building Topological.

Co-Founder & CTO at Topological YC S25

Intro paths

Zeyneb 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 Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Topological's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Zeyneb can intro founders to Topological's investors below.

Topological's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Topological

Nicole MaCo-Founder & CEO

Experience

Jane StreetMachine Learning Researchercurrent2026 — present
TopologicalCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, CA
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)Student Researchercurrent2025 — present
OpenAIStudent Researcher2025 — 2026
DriaAI Researcher2025
Stanford UniversityResearch Intern2021 — 2024
Intelligent Conversational Agents and Neural Networks LabResearch Intern2021 — 2022San Jose State University

Skills & more

Languages Chinese · English · Turkish

Natural Language Processing | Specialization — Coursera

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Zeyneb Kaya?: Zeyneb Kaya studied computer science, physics, and mathematics at Stanford, conducting research in reinforcement learning, pretraining, efficient algorithms, synthetic data, and physics. She is building Topological.
Where does Zeyneb Kaya work?: Zeyneb Kaya is Co-Founder & CTO of Topological.
What companies did Zeyneb Kaya found?: Zeyneb Kaya founded Topological.
Where did Zeyneb Kaya go to school?: Zeyneb Kaya studied at Stanford University (Master's Degree, Computer Science); Stanford University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science / Mathematics / Physics); Saratoga High School.