Pranay Yadav is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco with a decade of experience at the intersection of product, ML, and early-stage investing. After a stint as an investor at Accel and a First-50 Fellow at On Deck, he’s been iterating across ambitious ideas—from enterprise knowledge engines and browsers to IDEs—before founding Iden in 2024. His background blends hands-on engineering (early work includes Google Summer of Code and ML internships) with quantitative experience as a fixed-income quant at Nomura. He holds combined Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and has founded multiple startups, giving him both technical depth and operational grit. Notably, his profile reflects a pattern of rapid prototyping and cross-domain curiosity that fuels product-led research and founder-first execution.
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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