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Stellar

AI-powered business goals

Y CombinatorSummer 2022InactiveB2BSaaSB2BProductivityAnalytics

What they do

Problem

Teams struggle to consistently write, align, and track high-quality SMART goals, wasting time on manual goal-management tasks.

Solution

An AI-powered goals platform that uses GPT to help teams create and track SMART goals at every level while automating redundant goal-management work.

Who it's for

Business teams and organizations that set and manage goals across departments and levels.

Founders

Angela Dao
Founder

Angela is the co-founder and CEO of Stellar. Before Stellar, she was a Product Management leader with almost a decade of experience scaling high growth startups. As an early product manager at Affirm, she scaled its nascent consumer product to $2B in annual volume, launched the Affirm Marketplace, and grew their omnichannel vertical by 2x. She was also an early product manager at Earnin, a fintech unicorn, where she launched the mobile app to multiply WAUs and transform unit economics.

Elise Nguyen
Founder

Elise is the co-founder and CPO of Stellar. Before founding Stellar, she was a Product Design leader at LinkedIn where she grew and scaled the Career’s design team (Job seekers, Salary, Talent brand, and Equity team) for LinkedIn's $6B Talent Solutions business. She has also worked at Symphony, the Slack for bankers, where she launched the first mobile experience for financial bankers, enabling bankers to work from anywhere.

Quan Zhou
Founder

Quan is the technical cofounder of Stellar and is passionate about technology that makes teams more effective and collaborative. Prior to Stellar, he was an early engineer at an HR unicorn Pave (S20) and built the technology stack from the ground up. Quan previously worked at Affirm (where he met Angela) and was on Bridgewater Trading technology team. He holds an engineering degree from Princeton.

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