2x founder
Leon Yao
Co-Founder @ Whitespace (YC S26) | AI for Wholesale Distribution
2025Co-founder· Whitespace (YC S26)
Founder · since 2021Company
Whitespace (YC S26)
Role
Co-Founder & CTO
current
Stage
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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
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Experience
Career
2025Whitespace (YC S26)
Co-founderCo-Founder & CTO · 2025 – Present
2024InstaDeep
Research Engineer · 2024 – 2026
2022University College London
Research Assistant · 2022 – 2023
2021Test & Tutor
Co-founderCo-Founder · 2021 – 2022
2020The University of Manchester
Research Developer · 2020 – 2021
- 2019
Independent Product Designer
2019 – 2021
Bio
Founder at Whitespace. Previously Research Engineer at Instadeep, designing RL solutions for NP-hard optimization problems. First-author paper at top-3 robotics conference on autonomous navigation. Former CTO at Test and Tutor (1000+ users, 3 school partnerships). MSc in Machine Learning and BEng in Mechanical Engineering from UCL.