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Emily Damato

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Founding AI Engineer at Collate
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Emily is a Founding AI Engineer at Collate, specializing in building AI solutions for the life sciences sector. A graduate of MIT, she co-founded Mantle, a Y Combinator-backed company that was successfully acquired by Collate. Her career includes roles at GRAIL and ArsenalBio, focusing on machine learning and computational biology.

Emily is an active supporter of the startup community, often promoting the work of other innovative companies in lab automation and life sciences. She is engaged with the broader tech ecosystem and shows a keen interest in seeing others succeed.

She co-founded a company, Mantle, that was acquired by her current employer, Collate.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Founding AI Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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AI in Life Sciences
Her current role at Collate and her previous company, Mantle, are both focused on building AI solutions to accelerate life science research.
Data Engineering
The company she co-founded, Mantle, was built to make data engineering technology more accessible for biotech teams handling complex biological data.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Founding AI Engineer
Collate
4-2023 - 4-2025
CEO, Co-Founder
Mantle
11-2021 - 3-2023
Senior Software Engineer
Betteromics
2-2020 - 11-2021
Senior Software Engineer
ArsenalBio
8-2018 - 2-2020
Software Engineer
GRAIL, Inc.
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Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5-2023 - 8-2023
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Y Combinator
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