Kanjun Qiu is an American businesswoman and the co-founder and CEO of Imbue, an AI research lab.[1] Imbue has raised $200M from companies like Nvidia to fund the development of "custom AI agents capable of reasoning".[3] Previously, she was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco.[5] Before Sourceress, she served as the first chief of staff at Dropbox as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people.[8]
Qiu studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked as a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab, and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market.[17,16] She is a Sequoia Capital Scout and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students.[10,11,9] On December 3, 2019, she was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology.[12] She has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology, and attended Collision 2024 by Web Summit in Toronto.[18]
Personal life
Kanjun founded The Archive, a long-term coliving house near Dolores Park in San Francisco.[21] In October 2018, Kanjun and her fellow roommates appeared on Megyn Kelly Today to explain the inspiration behind the house.[22,23,24]
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