Rick Gao

CEO @ Alkera (YC S26) | Building next-generation data agents

Co-founder

Alkera AI· Summer 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

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2026Co-founder· Alkera AI (YC S26)

Founder · since 2026

Company

Alkera AI (YC S26)

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

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Raised

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Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Alkera AI

Reliable and safe data engineering and data science agents

Summer 2026

Experience

Career

Alkera AI (YC S26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2026
Verition Fund Management LLC
Intern · New York, New York, United States · 2024 – 2026
2024
Yale University
Undergraduate Researcher | Gerstein Laboratory · New Haven, Connecticut, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
Yale Young Global Scholars
Course Instructor · New Haven County, Connecticut, United States · 2023
2023

Bio

Founder at Alkera AI, Inc. Previously at Verition Fund Management where he built financial models and optimizations for treasury financing. Previous computational biology research at Yale's Gerstein Laboratory.