Daniel Spokoyny

CoFounder & CEO @ BeeSafe AI (YC W26) | PhD @ CMU | Stopping Trust-Based Scams |

Co-founder

BeeSafe AI· Winter 2026 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2026Co-founder· BeeSafe AI (YC W26)

Founder · since 2026

Company

BeeSafe AI (YC W26)

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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BeeSafe AI

Frontier AI Defenses for Social Engineering Attacks

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

BeeSafe AI (YC W26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2026
UC San Diego
Postdoctoral Researcher · San Diego, California, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
Climate Change AI
Core Team · 2022 – 2024
2022
Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute
PhD Student · Greater Pittsburgh Region · 2017 – 2024
2017
Salesforce
Graduate Research Intern · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2022
2022
Microsoft
Graduate Research Intern · Redmond, Washington, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Google
Graduate Research Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019
2019
OpenGov Inc.
NLP Intern · Redwood City, CA · 2015
2015

Bio

I am a machine learning and security researcher with 10+ years in ML and NLP. I earned my PhD at CMU with research on novel transformer architectures, better training objectives, and evaluation benchmarks for reasoning.