Kanjun Qiu
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Kanjun Qiu is the co-founder and CEO of Imbue, an AI research lab. Imbue has raised $200M from companies like
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to fund the development of "custom AI agents capable of reasoning". Previously, Kanjun was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco. Before Sourceress, Kanjun served as the first chief of staff at
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as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people. Kanjun is a
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Scout and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students. On December 3, 2019, Kanjun was recognized as the 2020
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Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology. Kanjun studied computer science at the
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, worked as a graduate researcher at the
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and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market. Kanjun has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology.


Personal life

Kanjun founded The Archive, a long-term coliving house near Dolores Park in San Francisco. In October 2018, Kanjun and her fellow roommates appeared on
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