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Lucas Igel

Lucas Igel

Founder & CEO building AI tools for filmmakers

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San Francisco, California
Joined October 2025

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Summary

Founder‑operator building developer‑grade AI tooling for film: Lucas co‑founded Kino (YC S23) to solve the tedious, large‑scale video logging and search problems editors face. Kino emphasizes on‑prem/local processing, privacy, and high performance for production workflows and has grown from product prototypes to paying pilots/customers. ycombinator+2
Deep systems and robotics engineering background informs product design: He has hands‑on experience in mission‑critical environments (internships and research at SpaceX and NASA JPL) and applies that emphasis on reliability and performance to Kino's engineering (on‑prem processing, speed, secure workflows). nasa+2
Practitioner filmmaker whose own documentary inspired product: Lucas produced the feature 'MIT: REGRESSIONS' while at MIT and explicitly built tools and pipelines (including image/video enhancement notebooks) during the filmmaking process — that practical filmmaking experience directly motivated Kino's product direction. lucasigel+2
Public engineer and researcher with active open‑source presence: Maintains a GitHub account with repositories and project work from MIT, research, and product efforts, demonstrating strengths in computer vision, tooling, and reproducible engineering. github+1

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Hobbies

Documentary filmmaking and photography (creator/producer of MIT: REGRESSIONS) lucasigel+1

Open‑source software and side projects (many public repos demonstrating tooling, visualization, and research work) github

Notes

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Oct 16, 2025