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Catherine Jue

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Co-Founder & CEO at Kernel
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Catherine Jue is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kernel (YC S25), a platform building high-performance browser infrastructure for AI agents and web automations. A repeat founder, she previously led engineering management teams at Cash App focused on infrastructure and partner engineering. Catherine holds a Bachelors degree in Linguistics and Computer Science from UCLA.

Outside of tech, Catherine is the founder of Tekuno, a San Francisco-based company that sources rare, single-origin Japanese teas and objects inspired by traditional tea ceremony. She believes tea is a medium for slowing down and fostering connection, a philosophy reflected in her business which has been featured in multiple publications.

Unique fact: The name of her tea company, Tekuno, is a phonetic play on "techno" music and "te, " the word for tea, blending her modern tech life with traditional interests.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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AI Infrastructure
As the Co-Founder and CEO of Kernel, she is building a browser infrastructure platform specifically designed to help AI agents and automations use the internet.
Developer Platforms
Her work at Kernel is focused on creating a best-in-class developer platform, a theme that continues from her past leadership roles at Cash App managing developer-facing teams.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Co-Founder & CEO
Kernel
2-2024 - 3-2025
EM, Partner Engineering
Cash App
3-2023 - 2-2024
EM, Infrastructure & Automations
Cash App
9-2022 - 3-2023
Senior Partner Engineer
Cash App
2020 - 2024
Founder
Tekuno Japanese Tea & Objects
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Education
2016 - 2016
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Y Combinator
2011 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree Linguistics and Computer Science
UCLA
2025 - 2025
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Y Combinator
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