Ryan Junee Email Address

Co-Founder and Board Member

Y Combinator is a financial services company which specializes in incubation, seed, and later stage funding for early stage startups.

Ryan Junee is the founder and CEO of Quintessential Ventures, a holding company and venture studio for high growth online businesses. Ryan co-founded 5 technology companies over the last 20 years, two are worth $250M+, one was acquired by Google. He co-founded the venture capital firm Electric Ant, and was previously a part-time partner at Y Combinator, the world’s most prestigious startup accelerator. When he worked at Google he managed teams building the consumer-facing aspects of YouTube. Ryan dropped out of the PhD program in Electrical Engineering at Stanford to pursue his passion for high technology startups. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, as well as Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering, Finance and Commercial Law from the University of Sydney.