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Alisa Rae

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Founder at Lucent (YC W26)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Alisa is the founder of Lucent, an AI startup backed by Y Combinator that automates UX issue detection. A University of Sydney graduate, her impressive background includes roles as a founding engineer at MagicBrief (acquired by Canva) and a software engineer at Atlassian, with a prior successful exit of another AI project.

Outside of her entrepreneurial ventures, Alisa has a diverse range of interests that blend the artistic with the highly technical. She is certified in Grade 8 Piano, showcasing a creative side, and also holds a certification in the Foundations of Quantum Computing, indicating a deep intellectual curiosity beyond her immediate field.

After initially being rejected by Y Combinator as a solo founder, she moved from Australia to San Francisco and was accepted into the prestigious program.

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Experience
3 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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AI in UX
Her company, Lucent, is building an AI to automatically detect bugs and UX issues from session replays, which is her core professional focus.
Startup Fundraising
She successfully raised an oversubscribed $1. 3M pre-seed round for Lucent from notable investors like Y Combinator, Horizon, and Weekend Fund.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Founder
Lucent (YC W26)
2024 - 2025
Software Engineer
Atlassian
2024 - 2024
Side Project
Stella AI (Acquired)
2023 - 2024
Founding Engineer
MagicBrief
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Education
Bachelor of Science and Advanced Studies (Dalyell Scholar)
University of Sydney
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Hornsby Girls High School
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