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Known for these resultsRole20%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 20% 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-company40%Ex-company is matched from bios with employment context (ex-, formerly, worked at). 40% of these rows have at least one match.School40%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 40% of these rows have at least one match.
- He LuFounder · Centauri AIW24B2B · San Francisco
- Milan ShenFounder/CPO · Centauri AIW24B2B · San Francisco
- Erik DuhaimeFounder · CentaurW19Healthcare · Boston
- Tom GellatlyFounder · CentaurW19Healthcare · Boston
- Zach RausnitzFounder · CentaurW19Healthcare · Boston
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
He LuCentauri AIFounderWinter 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States5—Milan ShenCentauri AIFounder/CPOWinter 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States5—Erik DuhaimeCentaurFounderWinter 2019HealthcareBoston, United States45—Tom GellatlyCentaurFounderWinter 2019HealthcareBoston, United States45—Zach RausnitzCentaurFounderWinter 2019HealthcareBoston, United States45—
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Milan Shen
Founder/CPO·Centauri AI
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CPO
Team size5
BatchWinter 2024
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Milan is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Centauri AI. Milan has expertise in Data and AI over 10 years with both research and product development. After obtaining a PhD in Statistics from Stanford, she led DS for Pricing and Forecasting powering over 1 million listings at Airbnb. More recently at Meta as a research scientist manager, she led the team to deploy Facebook Ads system’s first privacy-preserving AI solution (approx $0.5B+ yearly incremental revenue).
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
CredentialsPhD
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
