About Us

Who Are We?

Orby AI was founded on the singular premise that legacy process automation products grew to be too complex and costly, leaving an immense number of critical enterprise tasks unable to benefit from automation. Bella Liu had been in the RPA space since its early days, leading product development at UiPath, and realized how significantly enterprise automation could benefit from purpose-built AI. When Bella met Will Lu, a serial entrepreneur who led development of a number of AI products at Google, they decided that their combined experience would make this vision of AI automation a reality.

In addition to our founders, Orby is a team of world-class talent from some of the best academic institutions in the world, and we are backed by top-tier investors who have built segment-defining companies such as Salesforce, Snowflake, Workday and DoorDash.

We Are Hiring

Our Founders

Bella Liu

Co-Founder & CEO

Previously AI product leader at UiPath from early stage to post-IPO. Deep knowledge of AI and automation technology, product building, and business scaling.

Will Lu

Co-Founder & CTO

Previously data platform leader at Google Cloud AI: co-founder of knowledge service for Contact Center AI, Doc AI, and Enterprise Knowledge Graph at Google.

TEAM

The Orby AI team comprises AI leaders from some of the most innovative organizations in tech across both industry and academia.

Tianjun Fu

Engineering

Former Staff Software Engineer and Manager at Google Cloud AI and PhD Researcher at University of Arizona

Fabian Chan

Engineering

Former Senior Software Engineer at Google Cloud AI and Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Ricky Grannis-Vu

Engineering

Former Visiting Researcher at the University of Washington and Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Bhavesh Singh

Engineering

Former Software Engineer at Meta and Graduate Researcher at University of Southern California

Matheus Dias

Engineering

Former Research Data Scientist at Meta and Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Terry Zhao

Engineering

Former Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Yanan Xie

Engineering

Former Senior Software Engineer at Google

Sanjari Srivastava

Engineering

Former Technical Staff at Rubrik and Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Chunliang Lyu

Engineering

Former Senior Software Engineer at Google and PhD Researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tianye Lu

Engineering

Former Principal Software Engineer at Airtable and Tableau, and Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Qingzhuo Zhen

Engineering

Former Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude, Box, and Salesforce

Faazilah Mohamed

Engineering

Former Software Engineer at Google Cloud AI

Yining Mao

Engineering

Former ML intern at Apple and Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Kushagro Bhattacharjee

Engineering

Former Startup Founder and ML Research Engineer at Amazon

Cheng Chang

Engineering

Former Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Andre Costa

Engineering

Former R&D Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, Scientific Computing PhD from Duke

Akram Albawayah

Engineering

Former Software Engineer at Uber

Nikhil Devadoss

Engineering

Former Software Engineer at Salesforce

Richard Cheung

Engineering

Former Head Teaching Assistant, Stanford Graduate

Danny Feng

Engineering

Former Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley and Graduate Researcher at Stanford

Music Li

Engineering

Former Staff Software Engineer at Google Deepmind and Google Cloud AI, and Graduate Researcher at CMU

Bhavishya Mittal

Engineering

Former Senior Software Engineer at Google Cloud AI and Graduate Researcher at Georgia Tech

Shlok Mehrotra

Engineering

Undergrad Graduate at UIUC, formerly at Meta, Microsoft

Rishu Garg

Engineering

Former Lecturer at Stanford, MS at Stanford

Mike Dolt

Engineering

Former Senior Software Engineer at Google

Peng Qi

Research

Experienced AI scientist in cutting-edge research and applications. CS PhD from Stanford, former Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon.

Ignacio Cases

Research

Former Postdoctoral Associate at MIT/CSAIL, and PhD from Stanford

Gang Li

Research

Experienced researcher on multimodal LLMs for UI understanding and agentic applications. Former Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind.

Peter Huang

Product

Former Product Leader at Calendly and Dropbox

Tanay Padhi

Product

Former Product Manager at Google, MS/MBA from Harvard

Dannielle Dan

Product Design

Former Product Design Leader at Armorblox, Medallia, and Microsoft

Fengbo Li

Product Design

Product design leader dedicated to crafting human-centric experiences that drive innovation and customer delight. Ex-Amazon.

Nick Sissine

Sales

Former GTM Sales Executive at VMware and Procore Technologies

Christine Hayden

Customer Success

Former Customer Success Leader at Drift

Nikita Avlani

Customer Success

Former Customer Success Leader at Mindtickle. Ex Uber & Amazon

Shruti Chander

Customer Success

Former Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Benchling with 10+ years of SaaS and Customer Success leadership, Master of Biotech from University of Pennsylvania

Adam Boyle

Solution Engineer

Former Senior Solution Architect at Tonkean

Ned Barnes

Solution Engineer

Experienced Solutions Leader, obsessed with pushing the limits of technology

Ren Young

People

Senior Recruiting Leader from Meta and Grammarly specialized in AI Talent Acquisition

Abhi Ramachandiran

Chief of Staff

Former BizOps & Strategy Leader at BILL and Enterprise Software Private Equity Investor at Thoma Bravo

Scott Sandell

Chairman & CEO, NEA

Investor of more than 26 successful IPO or acquisition exits including Salesforce, Uber, Mulesoft, Tableau, Cloudflare, Workday, Coursera. Webex, etc.

Vanessa Larco

Partner, NEA

Joined NEA as a partner in 2016. She has led investments in Assembled, Kindred, Rewind AI, Cleo, Evernow, Rocket.Chat, and Mejuri, among others.

Mar Hershenson

Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC

Stanford PhD and three-time founder herself, Mar brings a wealth of operational and technical brilliance.

Arash Afrakhteh

Partner, Pear VC

Three-time founder with successful exits. Arash loves collaborating with founders from day one.

Monica Lam

Professor, Stanford University

Research Advisor of Orby AI.
Faculty Director of the Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab. Professor Lam's current research is on conversational virtual assistants.

Sara Choi

Partner, Wing VC

Sara brings her first-hand experience as the founder and COO of Airfox, investing in early-stage companies in AI and Biotech sectors.

Sujay Jaswa

Founding Partner, WndrCo

Business Founder and Head of Business & CFO at Dropbox. He is a Lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Founding Partner, WndrCo

Former Co-founder and Chairman of Dreamworks Animation and Chairman of Walt Disney Studios.

ChenLi Wang

General Partner, WndrCo

Second business hire at Dropbox and led the growth, bizops, and product teams. Former CPO at Aura, a leader in digital security.