Angela Gao

CTO/cofounder @fearn | Caltech PhD | CMU | a16z sr005

Co-founder

Fearn· Speedrun 005 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025Co-founder· Fearn

Founder · since 2025

Company

Fearn

Role

Co-Founder and CTO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Fearn

Big Law patents. Startup speeds. Fearn is the AI-native patent firm built for startups.

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Experience

Career

Fearn
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CTO · 2025 – Present
2025
Caltech
Research Assistant · 2019 – 2025
2019
Google
Research Intern · Mountain View, California, United States · 2022
2022
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Summer Research Intern · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · 2019
2019
Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering
Research Assistant · Greater Pittsburgh Area · 2017 – 2019
2017
Carnegie Mellon University
Student Supervisor · Greater Pittsburgh Area · 2018
2018
Carnegie Mellon University
EXCEL Leader · Greater Pittsburgh Area · 2016 – 2018
2016
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Summer@EPFL Intern · Lausanne Area, Switzerland · 2018
2018
Princeton University
Visiting Student Researcher · 2017
2017
Morsel Club
Software Engineer Intern · Greater New York City Area · 2016
2016

Bio

Prior to Fearn, I completed my PhD at Caltech, studying AI and its mathematical underpinnings. My PhD thesis focused on developing physics-aligned generative models. I also worked at Google Research, where I developed proprietary AI models. At Fearn, I continue to develop rule-aligned models, but instead of physics alignments, our AI models are aligned to the rule of law.