Work at Cardinal?
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Team size
- 1-10
- Founded 2025
- Total raised
- $1M
- Pre-seed · last round Mar '26
About Cardinal
Cardinal is an AI-powered outbound and go-to-market platform founded by Devi Jha and Jianna Liu, both experienced entrepreneurs who have previously built and sold a company to Johnson Controls and participated in Y Combinator twice. Based in San Francisco, Cardinal operates as a small, founder-led team that works in-person five days a week, combining deep technical expertise—Jha studied computer science at Harvard while Liu is an MIT CS graduate with prior experience at Meta, Nvidia, and DoorDash—with a commitment to building enterprise-grade infrastructure. The company has constructed its platform on multi-tenant infrastructure with SOC 2-ready audit logging, positioning it to serve demanding enterprise customers from the ground up.
Culture & values
Flat, founder-led team structure
In-person 5 days a week in San Francisco
Young team that moves fast
Expects people to take ownership
Founding engineers lead 0-to-1 product work
Values high agency
Values product mindset
Values strong engineering fundamentals over specific domain experience
Every role is fully full-stack
Engineers work directly with customers to shape the product
Funding
$1Mtotal raised
- Mar 2026 · Pre-seed$500k
- Jan 2026 · Seed$500k
Company at a glance
The team at Cardinal
1-10 peopleSee everyone on LinkedIn
Team breakdown
Team Distribution
- Leadership50%
- Software Engineering25%
- Specialized25%
Where the Team Studied
- 1.Harvard University
- 2.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 3.University of Oxford
- 4.University of Maryland
Team Worked At
- Meta
- NVIDIA
- DoorDash
Location
Team Composition
5 people- Consulting2 senior2
- Design1 senior1
- Engineering and Technical1
- Operations1
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