Kanjun Qiu

Kanjun Qiu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco.[1][2][3] In 2017, Sourceress raised $3.5 million in funding from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, OpenAI researchers, Y Combinator, and Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.[4]

Prior to Sourceress, Kanjun served as the first Chief of Staff at Dropbox as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people.[5][6][7] Kanjun is a Sequoia Capital Scout[8] and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students.[9][10]

On December 3, 2019, Kanjun was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology.[11][12][13][14] Kanjun studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked as a Graduate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab[15] and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market.[16]

Kanjun has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology.[17][18][19]