Find your path to Faiz
About
Faiz Vadakkumpadath is the founder of Papaya (YC F26). He spent a decade as a Senior Data Engineer at Amazon, where he led teams building the enterprise Data Lake at exabyte scale, and earlier worked at IBM scaling Vodafone's M-PESA mobile money system in Africa; he also co-founded OpenReporting, a SaaS financial reporting tool.
Founder at PapayaYC F26
Intro paths
YC
Faiz went through Y Combinator (Fall 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Papaya's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Faiz can intro founders to Papaya's investors below.
Papaya's investors · 8
Bessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M checks · since 2026GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2021Group 11Beverly Hills · $5M – $20M checks · since 2021Insight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2021Scale Venturessince 2021Tiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checks · since 2026Workday VenturesSan Francisco · since 2021Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026
Co-founders at Papaya
MM
Macy ModyFounder/CEO
NP
Niyaz PuzhikkunnathFounder/CPO
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Faiz Vadakkumpadath?
- Faiz Vadakkumpadath is the founder of Papaya (YC F26). He spent a decade as a Senior Data Engineer at Amazon, where he led teams building the enterprise Data Lake at exabyte scale, and earlier worked at IBM scaling Vodafone's M-PESA mobile money system in Africa; he also co-founded OpenReporting, a SaaS financial reporting tool.
- Where does Faiz Vadakkumpadath work?
- Faiz Vadakkumpadath is Founder of Papaya.
- What companies did Faiz Vadakkumpadath found?
- Faiz Vadakkumpadath founded Papaya.