4x founder

Ilia Semenov

Founder | Ex-Lyft | Cloud Economist | YC S21

Founder

Cloudthread· Summer 2021 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @ilia_v_semenov

2026AI and Data Platform Economics· Apple

Founder · since 2016

Company

Apple

Role

AI and Data Platform Economics

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Cupertino, CA

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Cloudthread

Eliminate Cloud Waste. Attribute and Track Savings. Engage Engineers.

Summer 2021

Experience

Career

Apple
AI and Data Platform Economics · Cupertino, CA · 2026 – Present
2026
PawAI
Founder
Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – 2026
2024
Cloudthread
Co-founder
CPO & Co-Founder (Acquired) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2021 – 2024
2021
cogniDNA
Co-founder
Co-Founder · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2019 – 2021
2019
Lyft
Founder
Data Scientist > Data Engineer > Tech Lead - Finance/FinOps Data Engineering · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2020
2016
Electronic Arts (EA)
Senior Business Analyst - Cloud Operations (FinOps Lead) · Austin, Texas Area · 2014 – 2016
2014
PwC
Assurance Consultant · Saint-Petersburg, Russia · 2011 – 2012
2011

Bio

🚀ex-Lyft (2016-2020): Data Engineering + Cloud Cost Management 🎮ex-EA (2014-2016): Cloud Cost Management 🎓Carnegie Mellon University 🏡Saint-Petersburg, Russia 🌁San Francisco, USA