Braden Hancock
Unicorn founderCo-Founder (former Head of Technology) at Snorkel AI
Redwood City, California, United States
FoundedSnorkel AI$1.3B
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Co-Founder (former Head of Technology) at Snorkel AI
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Snorkel AI's investors · 14
Accenture VenturesSan FranciscoAdditionNew York · $1M – $500M checksBlackRockWilmingtonGreylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checksGV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checksIn-Q-TelTysons · $100K – $2.5M checksLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1.7M – $87M checksProsperity7 VenturesDhahranQBE VenturesNew YorkShield CapitalSan FranciscoStone Bridge VenturesSeoul · $1.4M – $19M checksSV AngelSan FranciscoU.S. Air Forcesince 2021Walden InternationalSan Francisco
Co-founders at Snorkel AI
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Henry Kiss EhrenbergFounder
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Christopher (Chris) RéCo-Founder
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Henry (Kiss) EhrenbergCo-Founder (former Head of Engineering)
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Paroma VarmaCo-Founder (former Head of Solutions)
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Manas JoglekarCo-Founder / Founding Engineer (former)
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Vincent (Sunn) ChenCo-Founder & VP of New Products & Technology
Experience
- Laude InstituteResearch Partnercurrent2025 — present
- Laude VenturesResearch Partnercurrent2025 — present
- Various StartupsAdvisorcurrent2025 — present
- Snorkel AICo-founder & Advisorcurrent2024 — present
- Snorkel AICo-Founder & Head of Technology2019 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- MetaDirector of AI2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Stanford UniversityAI Research Scientist, Stanford2015 — 2019Stanford, California
- FacebookAI Research Scientist (PhD Intern), Facebook Research2018Paris, France
- GoogleAI Research Scientist (PhD Intern), Google2017Mountain View, CA
- MIT Lincoln LaboratoryAI Research Scientist (PhD Intern), MIT2014 — 2015Lexington, Massachussets
- Brigham Young UniversityAI Research Assistant, BYU2011 — 2015Provo, Utah
- Johns Hopkins UniversityAI Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University2013Baltimore, Maryland
- Air Force Research LaboratoryAI Research Assistant, USAF2007 — 2011Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Skills & more
Angel InvestingResearch and Development (R&D)5Management7Natural Language Processing (NLP)6Computer Vision2Machine Learning23Optimization21Python22Technical Writing8Artificial Intelligence2Matlab27Simulations7
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- Who is Braden Hancock?
- Co-Founder (former Head of Technology) at Snorkel AI
- Where does Braden Hancock work?
- Braden Hancock is Co-Founder (former Head of Technology) of Snorkel AI.
- What companies did Braden Hancock found?
- Braden Hancock founded Snorkel AI.
- Where did Braden Hancock go to school?
- Braden Hancock studied at Stanford University (Ph.D., Computer Science); Brigham Young University (BS, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics Minor).
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