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Anand Kannappan

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Founder at Patronus AI

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedPatronus AI

30 Under 30 2025 · AI

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Anand Kannappan is the co-founder and CEO of Patronus AI, a company developing simulation research and infrastructure for training and evaluating frontier AI models and agents, and the source of AI evaluation projects including FinanceBench, Lynx, SimpleSafetyTests, and CopyrightCatcher. Before founding Patronus AI, he led applied machine learning and causal inference work at Meta Reality Labs, where he built the organization's first observational causal inference platform and served as a functional lead for a 70-person team. Patronus AI is backed by investors including Lightspeed, Notable Capital, Factorial, Stanford, and Datadog.

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Who is Anand Kannappan?
Anand Kannappan is the co-founder and CEO of Patronus AI, a company developing simulation research and infrastructure for training and evaluating frontier AI models and agents, and the source of AI evaluation projects including FinanceBench, Lynx, SimpleSafetyTests, and CopyrightCatcher. Before founding Patronus AI, he led applied machine learning and causal inference work at Meta Reality Labs, where he built the organization's first observational causal inference platform and served as a functional lead for a 70-person team. Patronus AI is backed by investors including Lightspeed, Notable Capital, Factorial, Stanford, and Datadog.
Where does Anand Kannappan work?
Anand Kannappan is Founder of Patronus AI.
What companies did Anand Kannappan found?
Anand Kannappan founded Patronus AI.
What companies has Anand Kannappan invested in?
Investments tracked here include Aurelian.

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