Kanjun Qiu

Kanjun Qiu is the co-founder and CEO of Imbue, an AI research lab.^[1][2] Imbue has raised $200M from companies like Nvidia to fund the development of "custom AI agents capable of reasoning".^[3][4]

Kanjun Qiu at Collision 2024 by Web Summit in Toronto

Previously, Kanjun was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco.^[5][6][7]

Before Sourceress, Kanjun served as the first chief of staff at Dropbox as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people.^[8] Kanjun is a Sequoia Capital Scout^[9] and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students.^[10][11]

On December 3, 2019, Kanjun was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology.^{[12][13][14][15]} Kanjun studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked as a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab^[16] and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market.^[17]

Kanjun has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology.^[18][19][20]

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]