Ali Khalatpour
FounderFounder & CEO at Piris Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedPiris Labs · YC
About
Ali Khalatpour holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has worked at NASA and Stanford before founding Piris Labs, where he focuses on AI compute architecture.
Founder & CEO at Piris LabsYC W26
Intro paths
Ali went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Piris Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Ali can intro founders to Piris Labs's investors below.
Piris Labs's investors · 3
Co-founders at Piris Labs
Experience
- Piris Labs (YC W26)Co-Founder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentUnited States
- Harvard UniversityMIT → Harvard → Stanford; worked at two startups and built a local oscillator for NASA.2020 — 2025California, United States
Skills & more
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ali Khalatpour?
- Ali Khalatpour holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has worked at NASA and Stanford before founding Piris Labs, where he focuses on AI compute architecture.
- Where does Ali Khalatpour work?
- Ali Khalatpour is Founder & CEO of Piris Labs.
- What companies did Ali Khalatpour found?
- Ali Khalatpour founded Piris Labs.
- Where did Ali Khalatpour go to school?
- Ali Khalatpour studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MSc - PhD, EECS).
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