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Frances Liu

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Founder at Promptless

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedPromptless · YC

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1,010 people in our graph share verified history with Frances — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

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About

Frances Liu leads product and machine learning engineering at Promptless, a platform for maintaining customer-facing content. Previously, she held product and ML/AI engineering roles at Cloudflare, OneSignal, and Graft, working with large-scale data systems and LLM operations. She studied at Yale and pursued doctoral research at Stanford.

Founder at PromptlessYC W25

Intro paths

YC

Frances went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Promptless's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Frances can intro founders to Promptless's investors below.

Promptless's investors · 3

FundersClubSan Francisco · $250K – $5M checksOrange CollectiveDanvilleY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Promptless

PRPrithvi Ramakrishnan
Prithvi RamakrishnanFounder

Experience

  1. PromptlessCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Stanford Alumni AssociationBoard Member, Stanford Professional Womencurrent2023 — present
  3. Argon AI (YC W24)Co-Founder2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  4. GraftHead of Product2022 — 2023
  5. OneSignalHead of Data Science & Machine Learning2020 — 2022San Mateo, California, United States
  6. Cloudflare, Inc.Product2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  7. Harvard UniversityPostgraduate Fellow2014

Skills & more

Data Analysis10Matlab5C++2RNumerical AnalysisStochastic ModelingMachine Learning1Master Scuba DiverFinite Element Analysis

Languages Chinese · German · Japanese · Spanish

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Frances Liu?
Frances Liu leads product and machine learning engineering at Promptless, a platform for maintaining customer-facing content. Previously, she held product and ML/AI engineering roles at Cloudflare, OneSignal, and Graft, working with large-scale data systems and LLM operations. She studied at Yale and pursued doctoral research at Stanford.
Where does Frances Liu work?
Frances Liu is Founder of Promptless.
What companies did Frances Liu found?
Frances Liu founded Promptless.
Where did Frances Liu go to school?
Frances Liu studied at Stanford University (Master of Science (M.S.), Geological Sciences (Geophysics)); Yale University (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), double major: Archeology & Economics).

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