Pranay Yadav is a technology entrepreneur and investor based in Menlo Park with a decade of experience translating complex problems into scalable software and businesses. As founder and CEO of Iden since 2024, he leads product and strategy at a startup focused on SaaS, while leveraging a background in finance as a former Nomura fixed income quant and venture investing at Accel. A former On Deck Fellow and Clinton Health Access Initiative consultant, he blends hands-on engineering with high-growth, venture-backed execution across SaaS, DevTools, OSS, and API ecosystems. He founded and steered earlier ventures like CommBuyn as CTO, demonstrating end-to-end product leadership from concept to production. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science, he thrives at the intersection of technical depth and strategic runway. Based in the Bay Area, he combines rigorous data-driven thinking with an entrepreneurial mindset to turn ambitious ideas into scalable ventures.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
bachelors + masters in computer science, bachelors + masters in computer science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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