Our Founders
Bella Liu
Co-Founder & CEO
Previously AI product leader at UiPath from early stage to post-IPO. Deep knowledge of AI and automation technology, product building, and business scaling.
Will Lu
Co-Founder & CTO
Previously data platform leader at Google Cloud AI: co-founder of knowledge service for Contact Center AI, Doc AI, and Enterprise Knowledge Graph at Google.
The Orby AI team comprises AI leaders from some of the most innovative organizations in tech across both industry and academia.
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Tianjun Fu
Engineering
Former Staff Software Engineer and Manager at Google Cloud AI and PhD Researcher at University of Arizona
Fabian Chan
Engineering
Former Senior Software Engineer at Google Cloud AI and Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Ricky Grannis-Vu
Engineering
Former Visiting Researcher at the University of Washington and Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Richard Chen
Engineering
Former Software Engineer at Google
Matheus Dias
Engineering
Former Research Data Scientist at Meta and Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Bhavesh Singh
Engineering
Former Software Engineer at Meta and Graduate Researcher at University of Southern California
Terry Zhao
Engineering
Former Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Yanan Xie
Engineering
Former Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sanjari Srivastava
Engineering
Former Technical Staff at Rubrik and Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Chunliang Lyu
Engineering
Former Senior Software Engineer at Google and PhD Researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tianye Lu
Engineering
Former Principal Software Engineer at Airtable and Tableau, and Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Qingzhuo Zhen
Engineering
Former Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude, Box, and Salesforce
Faazilah Mohamed
Engineering
Former Software Engineer at Google Cloud AI
Yining Mao
Engineering
Former ML intern at Apple and Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Kushagro Bhattacharjee
Engineering
Former Startup Founder and ML Research Engineer at Amazon
Cheng Chang
Engineering
Former Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Andre Costa
Engineering
Former R&D Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, Scientific Computing PhD from Duke
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Akram Albawayah
Engineering
Former Software Engineer at Uber
Nikhil Devadoss
Engineering
Former Software Engineer at Salesforce
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Richard Cheung
Engineering
Former Head Teaching Assistant, Stanford Graduate
Danny Feng
Engineering
Former Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley and Graduate Researcher at Stanford
Peng Qi
Research
Experienced AI scientist in cutting-edge research and applications. CS PhD from Stanford, former Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon.
Ignacio Cases
Research
Former Postdoctoral Associate at MIT/CSAIL, and PhD from Stanford
Gang Li
Research
Experienced researcher on multimodal LLMs for UI understanding and agentic applications. Former Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind.
Peter Huang
Product
Former Product Leader at Calendly and Dropbox
Tanay Padhi
Product
Former Product Manager at Google, MS/MBA from Harvard
Dannielle Dan
Product Design
Former Product Design Leader at Armorblox, Medallia, and Microsoft
Fengbo Li
Product Design
Product design leader dedicated to crafting human-centric experiences that drive innovation and customer delight. Ex-Amazon.
Nick Sissine
Sales
Former GTM Sales Executive at VMware and Procore Technologies
Christine Hayden
Customer Success
Former Customer Success Leader at Drift
Nikita Avlani
Customer Success
Former Customer Success Leader at Mindtickle. Ex Uber & Amazon
Adam Boyle
Solution Engineer
Former Senior Solution Architect at Tonkean
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Ned Barnes
Solution Engineer
Experienced Solutions Leader, obsessed with pushing the limits of technology
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Ren Young
People
Senior Recruiting Leader from Meta and Grammarly specialized in AI Talent Acquisition
Scott Sandell
Chairman & CEO, NEA
Investor of more than 26 successful IPO or acquisition exits including Salesforce, Uber, Mulesoft, Tableau, Cloudflare, Workday, Coursera. Webex, etc.
Vanessa Larco
Partner, NEA
Joined NEA as a partner in 2016. She has led investments in Assembled, Kindred, Rewind AI, Cleo, Evernow, Rocket.Chat, and Mejuri, among others.
Mar Hershenson
Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC
Stanford PhD and three-time founder herself, Mar brings a wealth of operational and technical brilliance.
Arash Afrakhteh
Partner, Pear VC
Three-time founder with successful exits. Arash loves collaborating with founders from day one.
Monica Lam
Professor, Stanford University
Research Advisor of Orby AI.
Faculty Director of the Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab. Professor Lam's current research is on conversational virtual assistants.
Sara Choi
Partner, Wing VC
Sara brings her first-hand experience as the founder and COO of Airfox, investing in early-stage companies in AI and Biotech sectors.
Sujay Jaswa
Founding Partner, WndrCo
Business Founder and Head of Business & CFO at Dropbox. He is a Lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Founding Partner, WndrCo
Former Co-founder and Chairman of Dreamworks Animation and Chairman of Walt Disney Studios.
ChenLi Wang
General Partner, WndrCo
Second business hire at Dropbox and led the growth, bizops, and product teams. Former CPO at Aura, a leader in digital security.
