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Pamela Valdes

Founder of Beek.io

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Pamela Valdes is the CEO and Co-founder of Beek, a successful startup that was part of Y Combinator's W17 batch. She has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 and has a background in guest lecturing at Stanford University.

Work Experience 

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Musa

  • CEO & Co-founder

    2025 - Current

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Beek.io

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2016 - 2025

    Beek (acq by Audible) was the largest Spanish audiobook app reaching over 4M users, raised over $20M from Y Combinator, Accel, Greylock, Lightspeed and top-tier industry operators like SVP Product at Disney+, multiple Netflix directors, and ex heads of growth and product at companies like Pinterest and Airbnb.

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The Thiel Foundation

  • Thiel Fellow

    2016 - 2018

    I was selected as the first Thiel Fellow in Latin America. The Thiel Fellowship grants $100K to people under 23 years old to drop out of college and build their startup.

We support science, technology, and long-term thinking about the future.

thielfoundation.org
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Y Combinator

  • Founder - YC Alum (W17)

    2017 - 2017

Education 

Investments 

Millions

Seed

Total funding: $3M

Knot

Seed

Total funding: $13M

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