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Mentors and guests

The people
in the room.

Mentors, YC founders and investors who have taught, hosted and pushed our founders since May 2025. Everyone here has a real session behind them.

Mentors24
YC founders10
Investors19
SinceMay 2025
68 people

Mentors

Weekly sessions, office hours and reviews inside the batches

Keeyong Han

CEO of Upzen, formerly Yahoo

Ask aboutData and AI strategy, Building and leading an engineering team, US medical data and hospital partnerships

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026US Track Oct 2025FS1, FS2, FS3

Helen Chen

Co-founder and CEO, Alixia

Ask aboutTelling your story to US audiences, Raising for biotech and health, Getting into IndieBio or YC

YC W22Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026US Track Oct 2025

Kyle Jung

Co-founder and CTO, Perspectives Health

YC S25Healthcare Oct 2026Founder Sprint 3

Yoon Sup Choi

Managing Partner, Digital Healthcare Partners

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Selene Kim

Product Manager, Glean

Ask aboutProduct priorities and roadmap, Building a B2B SaaS product, Turning customer interviews into features

FS1, FS2, FS3, FS4, FS5

Ajay James

InnovateX

Healthcare Feb 2026US Track Oct 2025FS1, FS2

Jina Kim

US go-to-market

US Track Oct 2025FS1, FS2, FS6

Hyelin Lee

AI Strategy, ServiceNow (ex-BCG)

US Track Oct 2025FS2, FS3

Matthew Eggertson

Venture Partner, Pioneer Fund; co-founder and CTO, Recursive Industries

Healthcare Feb 2026FS2, FS3

Apoorva Ruparel

Faculty and investor, AI agents

US Track Oct 2025Founder Sprint 2

David Moon

Venture Scout, Third Prime; founder, Input Recovery

FS5, FS7

Eric Cheung

Product at eBay, formerly Google

US Track Oct 2025Founder Sprint 1

Mayur Maheshwari

Design lead, Studio Accordé

YC S18FS3, FS4

Phoenix Carnevale

Class Experience Lead, Navy SEAL mindset training

Healthcare Feb 2026US Track Oct 2025

Rui Bom

Sales mentor

FS1, FS2

Anh-Tuan Bui

Founder, TAI (AI insurance)

YC W22Founder Sprint 3

George Carollo

Co-founder, Dover

YC S19Founder Sprint 3

Jenny Huang

Founder mentality coach, former biotech founder

US Track Oct 2025

Joshua Kim

Cursor, formerly Notion

US Track Oct 2025

Landon Sanford

Founder

YC W21Founder Sprint 3

Martin Bittner

Co-founder and CEO, Redouble AI

YC S24Founder Sprint 3

Mojtaba Valipour

BMO Capital Markets

Founder Sprint 4

Olof Mollstedt

Co-founder, Alixia

YC W22US Track Oct 2025

Sungwon Lim

Founder and CEO, ImpriMed

Healthcare Feb 2026

YC founders who came

Firesides, dinners and lab visits

Jin Kim

Founder and CEO, Miracle

YC S23Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Mathieu Rihet

Founder and CEO, Novoflow

YC X25Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Yongjin Park

Founder and CEO, 1849 Bio

YC S24Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Adam Koszek

CEO, Segmed

YC W20Healthcare Oct 2026

Nick Damiano

CEO, Andromeda Surgical

YC S23, W15Healthcare Oct 2026

Christopher Jing

Co-founder, AeonCharge; Autonomo

YC W22US Track Oct 2025

Martin Diz

YC founder

US Track Oct 2025

Praful Mathur

Founder, Sarama; investor

YC S15US Track Oct 2025

Sebastian Heyneman

Founder, Veto

US Track Oct 2025

Xian Ke

YC founder

US Track Oct 2025

Investors in the room

Roundtables, workshops and dinners with our teams

Robert Neivert

Venture Partner, 500 Global

Ask aboutStructuring your pitch, What US investors listen for, Handling investor Q&A

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026US Track Oct 2025

Catherine Seo

Investor, SOSV (IndieBio)

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Hyung Kim

Investor, ZVC

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Jessica Li

Senior Associate, Novo Holdings

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Aditya Narayan

Venture Fellow, Arkitekt Ventures

Healthcare Oct 2026

Chaeyoon Park

Investment Manager, KVIC SV

Healthcare Oct 2026

Ivy Nguyen

Partner, GFT Ventures

Healthcare Oct 2026

Lyla Kim

LG Technology Ventures

Healthcare Oct 2026

Sarvesh Karkhanis

Founder and GP, Pupa Ventures

Healthcare Oct 2026

Chris Yeh

Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures

US Track Oct 2025

David Kim

Investor

US Track Oct 2025

Jeffrey Kim

Investor

US Track Oct 2025

Jorden Woods

Managing Partner, Starchain VC

Healthcare Feb 2026

Jun Jeon

Khosla Ventures

Healthcare Feb 2026

Kevin Chang

Investor

US Track Oct 2025

Naël-Pierre Nuseibeh

GS Futures

US Track Oct 2025

Radhika Iyengar

Managing Partner, Starchain VC

Healthcare Feb 2026

Tian Shi

Goldman Sachs; Industry Ventures

US Track Oct 2025

Victoria Smith

Jackson Square Ventures

US Track Oct 2025

Hosts and operators

Headquarters visits and talks

Jekkie Kim

Partner, WilmerHale

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Minsoo Seo

CEO, TaeWoong Medical USA

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Seungwook Paek

Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Lunit

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Wendy Johansson

Co-founder and COO, MiSalud Health

Healthcare Oct 2026Healthcare Feb 2026

Kyuho Han

CEO and Co-founder, MEDiC Life Sciences

Healthcare Oct 2026

Kyum Kim

Co-founder of Blind; Concurrence

Healthcare Oct 2026

Saram Lee

Stanford Biodesign

Healthcare Oct 2026

Kathy Koo

Sazze Partners

Healthcare Feb 2026

Kyle Atkinson

Notion

US Track Oct 2025

Yingjie Wang

Product at Rippling, formerly 500 Global

US Track Oct 2025

In our investor network

Investors we work with between batches

Aaron Hsu

General Partner, Actual VC

Benny Liao

Acorn Pacific Ventures

Davide Fioranelli

Founder, Lumen Ventures; co-founder, Freetrade

Shaheel Hooda

General Partner, Sprout Fund

Vanessa Samaniego

Head of Community, The Council

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