Anna Zhang
Co-founder & CEO @ Nessie (YC F25)
Experience
Career
2025Nessie Labs
Co-founderCo-Founder & CEO · San Francisco, CA · 2025 – Present
2024Amazon
Software Engineer · Seattle WA · 2024 – 2025
2024Yale University
Research Assistant · 2024
2023Amazon
Software Engineer Intern · Seattle, WA · 2023
2021The Urban Philanthropic Fund
Investment Team Head · 2021 – 2022
2021The Urban Philanthropic Fund
Investment Analyst · 2021
2020Tencent
Intern · 2020
2019The Rockefeller University
Summer Research Intern · Greater New York City Area · 2019
Bio
Co-Founder & CEO @ Nessie. Yale BS ‘24. Prev engineer @ Amazon's recommendation service. Shipped ML-powered features for billions of customers and led experiment that demonstrated a $200MM/year revenue impact. Obsessed with augmenting human cognition since high school, having conducted neuroscience research at The Rockefeller University. Founded Nessie with Tiger to build AI brains after hitting the 1-million-token limit in multiple Gemini chats.