Grey Baker
General Partner at Y Combinator
Grey Baker is a General Partner at Y Combinator, named in June 2026 after nearly a year as a Visiting Partner. He co-founded Dependabot, a tool that keeps software dependencies up to date, which GitHub acquired in 2019, and later co-founded Pincites (YC S23), acquired by Filevine. Before that he led product and engineering at GoCardless as it grew from six people to over 100.
- Venture capital
- Developer tools
- Software security
Y Combinator
GitHub
- Now
- General Partner, Y Combinator2
- Co-founded
- Dependabot and Pincites1
- Studied
- Mathematics and economics, University of Cambridge3
- Based
- San Francisco, California3
Experience
- Director, Product2025
Led the Dev Tools team, which builds features that turn designs into production code, such as the Figma MCP server.3
- Co-founder2023 – 2024
Built an AI contract review tool for in-house legal teams.3
- Vice President, Product2022 – 2023
Led the team behind GitHub's supply chain security, secret scanning and code scanning features.3
- Senior Director, Product2020 – 2022
His LinkedIn profile says he led 12 product managers working with about 200 engineers, and that the team grew GitHub's security business from zero to over $100 million in annual recurring revenue.3
- Director, Product2019 – 2020
Led the integration of Dependabot and Semmle into GitHub; Semmle became GitHub code scanning.3
- Co-founder and CEO2017 – 2019
A bot that helps developers keep third-party dependencies up to date. It reached $14,000 in monthly recurring revenue before GitHub acquired it in 2019.7
- VP Product, Engineering and Global2012 – 2016
Helped grow the company from six employees to over 100 and from £100,000 to £100 million in monthly volume. Earlier, as Head of Operations, he built its anti-money-laundering and anti-fraud systems.3
- Business Analyst2009 – 2011
Worked on strategy studies in retail banking, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and consumer goods.3
- Summer Intern32008
Education
Recognition
Publication · McKinsey Global Institute3
Milestones
- Finished an MPhil in Economics at Cambridge with a distinction, top of his year3
- Joined GoCardless, then a six-person startup3
- Set off on a solo, unsupported cycle around the world, 18,000 miles3
- Co-founded Dependabot3
- GitHub acquired Dependabot, announced at its Satellite event in Berlin4
- Co-founded Pincites, part of YC's Summer 2023 batch5
- Became a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator3
- Filevine acquired Pincites, announced in January 20266
- Named a General Partner at Y Combinator2