Emily Yuan

Emily Yuan is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Corgi, an AI insurance company founded in 2024 during the Summer 2024 Y Combinator batch. Corgi Insurance is a business insurance provider focused on delivering coverage for startup and technology companies through a digital, software-driven platform.

Yuan attended Stanford University, then dropped out in junior year to build companies full time. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. Before founding Corgi, Yuan served as a board member at Basket Entertainment, where she held the position of COO. Her first major product was Picnic, a Gen Z social app built around "circles" for shared interests, which later pivoted into Basket Entertainment, a gaming publisher. Yuan earned recognition with Forbes 30 Under 30 (2024) for her consumer-tech work.

Career history

• Co-founder and COO, Corgi (2024-present)
• Chief Operating Officer and co-founder, Basket Entertainment
• Co-founder, Picnic (Gen Z social platform)

What Emily Yuan could bring to Corgi: Yuan's combination of consumer-tech scale experience from building Picnic and Basket Entertainment, which grew to 200M MAU, paired with her operational expertise and board experience, positions her to drive Corgi's rapid expansion in regulatory-heavy insurance markets. Her track record of building category-defining products, coupled with her ability to execute ambitious infrastructure projects (Corgi spent $35M acquiring an insurance carrier and obtaining regulatory licenses across 49 states), suggests she is well-suited to scale Corgi's AI-native platform and establish it as the industry standard for startup insurance.

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