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Quora Founder Genealogy Tree - YC Alumni Startups
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Quora Founders

Harsh Sharma
Harsh Sharma
Pharmaceutical Digital Marketing Intern | Building Obesity Market in India 🚀| Fo...
 Charlie Cheever
Charlie Cheever
Working on Expo
 Vatsalya Kumar Mishra
Vatsalya Kumar Mishra
Product Associate @ Nation with Namo | DTU - CSE ‘25 | Ex-WAISL
Adam D'Angelo
Adam D'Angelo
Founder & CEO at Quora

YC Companies Founded by Quora Alumni

36 YC-backed companies founded by former Quora employees

Direct - 15 companies

Insight Browser (acquired by Scale AI) YC W19
insightbrowser.com
Quora → Insight Browser (acquired by Scale AI)
Abhinav Sharma Abhinav Sharma (Product Designer)
Joon Health (YC W22) YC W22
joonhealth.co
Quora → Joon Health (YC W22)
Brad Brenner Brad Brenner (Business Strategy Consultant | Berkeley Business Society)
Journey YC W21
journey.io
Quora → Journey
Brendan L. Weitz Brendan L. Weitz (GM)
OneSchema YC S21
oneschema.co
Quora → OneSchema
Andrew Luo Andrew Luo (Software Engineering Intern)
Sarah Smith Fund
sarahsmith.fund
Quora → Sarah Smith Fund
Sarah Smith Sarah Smith (Advisory Director)
Scale AI YC S16
scale.com
Quora → Scale AI
Alexandr Wang Alexandr Wang (Tech Lead) Lucy Guo Lucy Guo (Product Designer)
Simple AI YC S24
usesimple.ai
Quora → Simple AI
Catheryn Li Catheryn Li (Software Engineering Intern)
Tinai
tinai.com
Quora → Tinai
Long Tran Long Tran (Machine Learning Engineer)
Vellum YC S19
vellum.ai
Quora → Vellum
Sidd Seethepalli Sidd Seethepalli (Software Engineer)
Xfers YC S15
xfers.com
Quora → Xfers
Victor Liew Jia Hao Victor Liew Jia Hao (Software Engineer)
Blacksmith YC W17
blacksmith.sh
Quora → Blacksmith
Aayush Shah Aayush Shah (Software Engineering Intern)
Eggnog AI (YC W24) YC W24
eggnog.ai
Quora → Eggnog AI (YC W24)
Sam Plank Sam Plank (Data Scientist)
Expo YC S16
expo.dev
Quora → Expo
Charlie Cheever Charlie Cheever (Co-Founder)
Fazz
fazz.com
Quora → Fazz
Victor Liew Jia Hao Victor Liew Jia Hao (Software Engineer)
Quora → Focal (YC W24)
Felix Wang Felix Wang (Product Engineering Intern)

Level 1 - 20 companies

Milo YC W20
joinmilo.com
Quora → Insight Browser (acquired by Scale AI) → Milo
Archa Jain Archa Jain (Co-Founder, CEO)
Sendblue YC S23
sendblue.com
Quora → Scale AI → Sendblue
Rob Haber Rob Haber (Machine Learning Research Engineer)
Sieve YC W22
sievedata.com
Quora → Scale AI → Sieve
Mokshith Voodarla Mokshith Voodarla (ML Research & Product)
Spotlight Realty YC S25
spotlight.realty
Quora → Scale AI → Spotlight Realty
Jacob Phelan Jacob Phelan (SWE for AI Training Data)
Studdy YC S23
studdy.ai
Quora → Scale AI → Studdy
Michael Lam Michael Lam (Partner Engineer)
Toma YC W24
toma.com
Quora → Scale AI → Toma
Anthony Krivonos Anthony Krivonos (Senior Software Engineer, Donovan) Junyu Huang Junyu Huang (Lead Product Designer)
Ultra YC W24
useultra.ai
Quora → Scale AI → Ultra
Alex Jiang Alex Jiang (Software Engineer)
Wildcard (YC W25) YC W25
wild-card.ai
Quora → Scale AI → Wildcard (YC W25)
Kaushik Mahorker Kaushik Mahorker (Engineering Manager)
David AI YC S24
withdavid.ai
Quora → Scale AI → David AI
Tomer C. Tomer C. (Chief of Staff) Ben Wiley Ben Wiley (Engineering Manager)
fixa YC F24
fixa.dev
Quora → Scale AI → fixa
Oliver W. Oliver W. (Software Engineer)
Guardian AI
withguardian.ai
Quora → Scale AI → Guardian AI
Pranav Pillai Pranav Pillai (Software Engineer)
Mangodesk YC S25
mangodesk.com
Quora → Scale AI → Mangodesk
Ankith Subramanya Ankith Subramanya (Software Engineer)
MathDash YC W24
mathdash.com
Quora → Scale AI → MathDash
Daniel Sun Daniel Sun (Software Engineer Intern)
Monterey AI YC S22
monterey.ai
Quora → Scale AI → Monterey AI
Chun Jiang Chun Jiang (Product)
Nectar YC S23
nectarclimate.com
Quora → Scale AI → Nectar
Allen Wang Allen Wang (Software Engineer)
Nixo YC S25
withnixo.com
Quora → Scale AI → Nixo
Priya Khandelwal Priya Khandelwal (Machine Learning Researcher)
Novaflow (YC S25) YC S25
novaflowapp.com
Quora → Scale AI → Novaflow (YC S25)
Aman Agarwal Aman Agarwal (Prompt Engineer)
Pond YC S25
trypond.ai
Quora → Scale AI → Pond
Aagam Dalal Aagam Dalal (Software Engineer)
Rome (YC W22) YC W22
rome.ai
Quora → Scale AI → Rome (YC W22)
Craig Weiss Craig Weiss (Software Engineer) Richard Kong Richard Kong (Product Operations Manager)
Pipekit YC S21
pipekit.io
Quora → Expo → Pipekit
Caelan Urquhart Caelan Urquhart (Growth & Product Marketing)

Level 2 - 1 companies

Goriff YC S25
goriff.com
Quora → Scale AI → David AI → Goriff
Jinlin Zhang Jinlin Zhang (Software Engineer)

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Who founded Quora?

Quora was founded by Harsh Sharma, Charlie Cheever, Vatsalya Kumar Mishra and Adam D'Angelo.

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