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Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane

Founder

Founder at Scope

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedScope · YC

About

Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane conducted interpretability research on large language models at Princeton and worked as an ML engineer focused on geographic and audience expansion before founding Scope, which builds tools for companies to monitor how AI agents interact with their products.

Founder at ScopeYC X26

Intro paths

YC

Anand-Arnaud went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Scope's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Anand-Arnaud can intro founders to Scope's investors below.

Scope's investors · 3

Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksIndex VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Experience

  1. Scope (YC P26)Foundercurrent2025 — presentСан-Франциско, CA
  2. Founders, Inc.Founder in Residence2026San Francisco Bay Area
  3. CrossfillFounding Machine Learning Engineer2025Région de la baie de San Francisco
  4. REGALAI Agent Specialist2025New York, États-Unis
  5. Self-employedIndependent Researcher2024 — 2025
  6. SimplrCapstone project - AI customer services chatbot2023 — 2024Berkeley, Californie, États-Unis
  7. InriaResearch Intern2022 — 2023Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France

Frequently asked questions

Who is Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane?
Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane conducted interpretability research on large language models at Princeton and worked as an ML engineer focused on geographic and audience expansion before founding Scope, which builds tools for companies to monitor how AI agents interact with their products.
Where does Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane work?
Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane is Founder of Scope.
What companies did Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane found?
Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane founded Scope.
Where did Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane go to school?
Anand-Arnaud Pajaniradjane studied at Y Combinator (P26 Batch); University of California, Berkeley (Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science); CentraleSupélec (Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics).

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