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Zihao Lin

Founder

Founder at Klavis AI

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedKlavis AI · YC

About

Zihao Lin is a software engineer with five years at Lyft, where he led teams on recommendation systems and data infrastructure. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a BS from Beihang University, with prior research and internship experience in NLP and at Baidu.

Founder at Klavis AIYC X25

Intro paths

YC

Zihao 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 Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Klavis AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Zihao can intro founders to Klavis AI's investors below.

Klavis AI's investors · 2

468 CapitalBerlinY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Klavis AI

XZXiangkai Zeng
Xiangkai ZengFounder

Experience

  1. Klavis AICo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. LyftSenior Software Engineer2024 — 2025Seattle, Washington, United States
  3. LyftSoftware Engineer2022 — 2024Seattle, Washington, United States
  4. NordstromSoftware Engineer2020 — 2022Seattle, Washington, United States
  5. Cambia Health SolutionsSoftware Engineer Intern2019Seattle
  6. Baidu, Inc.Software Engineer Intern2017Beijing, China

Skills & more

Open-Source SoftwareGitHubMicrosoft Azure1Java7C3Python (Programming Language)4LeadershipMCPArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning7Natural Language Processing (NLP)6Deep Learning2

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Zihao Lin?
Zihao Lin is a software engineer with five years at Lyft, where he led teams on recommendation systems and data infrastructure. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a BS from Beihang University, with prior research and internship experience in NLP and at Baidu.
Where does Zihao Lin work?
Zihao Lin is Founder of Klavis AI.
What companies did Zihao Lin found?
Zihao Lin founded Klavis AI.
Where did Zihao Lin go to school?
Zihao Lin studied at Y Combinator (X25); Beihang University (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); Northeastern University (Master's degree, Computer Engineering).

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Shared employers

Also worked at Klavis AI1

Xiangkai ZengFounder at Klavis AI

Also worked at Lyft96

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