Monarcha
Summer 2025 · Active
An expert for your spatial data
Location: San Francisco, US
Founded: 2025
Team size: 2
About
Founders
James SpokesFounder
James is a Co-Founder of Monarcha. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Cornell University and led Cornell Digital Tech & Innovation, the university's largest undergraduate engineering project team. Previously, he designed for Station-F backed startup Loop, and built a multi-agency alerts systems at Mark43, where he was also first exposed to GIS software. He also is an accomplished photographer, having published books and won prizes at the International Photography Awards.
Everett LeeFounder
Everett is a Co-Founder of Monarcha. He graduated early from Cornell Engineering with a degree in Computer Science and began a CS master's, before dropping out to build Monarcha. He did research as part of Cornell's AI Innovation Lab under Ayham Boucher, and led Machine Learning Engineering at Cornell Data Science. Previously, Everett worked as an AI Engineer building computer vision models at WEX and as a Data Scientist at Avalara.