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Known for these resultsRole89%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 89% of these rows — the rest have no title at all, mostly 2019–2023. Those rows stay in the result and are counted as Unknown, never as No.Bio100%Bio coverage: 100% of these founders have a bio on their YC profile. Every bio-derived facet (ex-company, school, credentials, discipline) is Unknown for the rest.Ex-company44%Ex-company is matched from bios with employment context (ex-, formerly, worked at). 44% of these rows have at least one match.School67%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 67% of these rows have at least one match.
- Angelica Iacovelli@AngelicaIACFounder/CEO · NucleoF25Healthcare
- Luca PegolottiFounder/CTO · NucleoF25Healthcare
- Santosh VallabhaneniFounder/CEO · Rovi HealthF25Healthcare · New York
- Isabelle Ilyia@isabelleilyiaFounder/CTO · CedarW25B2B · San Francisco
- Jesse Li@fish_in_a_poolFounder/CEO · CedarW25B2B · San Francisco
- Gabriel Vincent Kho@gakhoFounder/CTO · FinosuS24Fintech · New York
- Mark RicciardiFounder/CEO · FinosuS24Fintech · New York
- Samantha WuFounder/CEO · Understood CareS24Healthcare · New York
- David Ouyang@David_OuyangFounder · InVision Medical TechnologyS22Healthcare · San Francisco
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Angelica IacovelliNucleoFounder/CEOFall 2025HealthcareUnknown2https://x.com/AngelicaIACLuca PegolottiNucleoFounder/CTOFall 2025HealthcareUnknown2—Santosh VallabhaneniRovi HealthFounder/CEOFall 2025HealthcareNew York, United States3—Isabelle IlyiaCedarFounder/CTOWinter 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/isabelleilyiaJesse LiCedarFounder/CEOWinter 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/fish_in_a_poolGabriel Vincent KhoFinosuFounder/CTOSummer 2024FintechNew York, United States7https://x.com/gakhoMark RicciardiFinosuFounder/CEOSummer 2024FintechNew York, United States7—Samantha WuUnderstood CareFounder/CEOSummer 2024HealthcareNew York, United States7—David OuyangInVision Medical TechnologyFounderSummer 2022HealthcareSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/David_Ouyang
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Angelica Iacovelli
Founder/CEO·Nucleo
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CEO
Team size2
BatchFall 2025
Location
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Angelica Iacovelli is the CEO and co-founder of Nucleo. Previously, she was a researcher at Stanford University, where she worked on cardiovascular modeling, simulating blood flow dynamics using GNNs, LSTMs, and Transformers. The models are now part of NVIDIA’s scientific libraries. She holds BS+MS in Mathematical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and completed a research exchange at IIT Madras.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
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