2x founder

Ilya Valmianski

Co-founder & CEO at Signals (YC W26).

Co-founder

Signals· Winter 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

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2025Co-founder· Signals (YC W26)

Founder · since 2022

Company

Signals (YC W26)

Role

CEO & Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Signals

iMessage revenue channel for DTC brands that brings customers back

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

Signals (YC W26)
Co-founder
CEO & Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
MDandMe
Co-founder
CEO & Co-Founder · 2022 – 2025
2022
Curai Health
Staff Machine Learning Researcher · 2022
2022
Curai Health
Senior Machine Learning Researcher · 2021 – 2022
2021
Kaiser Permanente
Lead Data Architect (Machine Learning) · 2019 – 2021
2019
Kaiser Permanente
Data Architect (Machine Learning) · 2018 – 2019
2018
University of California San Diego
Postdoctoral Research Fellow · 2017 – 2018
2017
Center for Advanced Nanoscience
Graduate Research Assistant · UC San Diego · 2011 – 2017
2011
Kleinfeld Neuroscience Laboratory
Research Assistant · UC San Diego · 2009 – 2011
2009
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Teaching Assistant · Woods Hole, MA · 2009
2009
General Atomics
Research Intern · San Diego · 2004
2004

Bio

Co-Founder Signals. 2x founder. Previously built AI patient intake at Kaiser Permanente, medical ChatGPT before ChatGPT at Curai Health, and co-founded MDandMe. Physics PhD.