Alex Schachne
Investing & Advising at alexshaq.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Schachne is an investor, advisor, and founder with six years of experience building and scaling early-stage AI products and developer platforms from San Francisco. He co-founded Leap, shipping one of the first AI image generators and APIs that reached over 1M users and 200k+ developers, and drove viral GTM with 100M+ organic impressions. Alex now invests in and advises 0→1 startups (including several YC companies) while continuing to build products himself, blending hands-on engineering with growth and go-to-market expertise. A Johns Hopkins CS alum and brief YC founder, he combines technical depth in AI with practical startup instincts—often backing friends and founders he’s helped ship initial traction. Less obvious: he’s launched profitable student-facing ventures and sold underlying tech, demonstrating both product-market focus and operational exit experience.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
F24 (dropped-out, funded solo), F24 (dropped-out, funded solo) at Y CombinatorJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (5)
react6
visualization5
data-visualization4
svg4
visx1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
leap-ai/leap-ai-avatars
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
leap-ai/leap-ai-cover-images
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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