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Read Bean

Learn language with real-world content, at your level

New York City, NY

3 employees

AI-Enhanced Learning

Seed

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About Read Bean

Read Bean helps intermediate-advanced language learners and heritage speakers improve their literacy using real-world content. The app measures your initial reading level and automatically transforms texts into bite-sized lessons at your level. It adapts to your progress, reinforcing vocabulary and tailoring content to ensure continuous improvement.

Company details

Team Size3

LocationNew York City, NY

IndustryAI-Enhanced Learning

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

StandoutYBacked by Y Combinator · P26

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Founders

Maggie Zhang

Studied CS at MIT. Previously bootstrapped an e-commerce business to 200k followers, quant traded at Virtu, built software at Bloomberg, and was in management consulting at Bain.

Pearl Li

Savannah Liu

COO at Read Bean. Built a payment pipeline at Amazon that did $2B in TPV and made a security layer at Flatiron health.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.