About
Gatik Trivedi is CTO at Lance. He previously founded and exited MedTec Innovate, conducted speech and language research at Stanford, studied electrical engineering, computer science, and business at UC Berkeley, and worked on agent infrastructure at GI Partners and LLM evaluation metrics at Knowtex.
Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published
- g•••@lance.livereveal75% confident
Founder at LanceYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Gatik went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Lance's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Gatik can intro founders to Lance's investors below.
Lance's investors · 3
Co-founders at Lance
CC
Caleb ChanFounder
GB
Gavin BrennenFounder
Experience
- Lance (YC W26)Chief Technology Officercurrent2025 — present
- GI PartnersAI Engineer2025
- KnowtexSoftware Engineer2025San Francisco, CA
- Stanford UniversityResearch, AIMI Lab2022 — 2024
- MedTecInnovateFounder2021 — 2024
- Gallaudet UniversityResearch2021 — 2022
- Florida Institute of TechnologyResearch2021
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Gatik Trivedi?
- Gatik Trivedi is CTO at Lance. He previously founded and exited MedTec Innovate, conducted speech and language research at Stanford, studied electrical engineering, computer science, and business at UC Berkeley, and worked on agent infrastructure at GI Partners and LLM evaluation metrics at Knowtex.
- Where does Gatik Trivedi work?
- Gatik Trivedi is Founder of Lance.
- What companies did Gatik Trivedi found?
- Gatik Trivedi founded Lance.
- Where did Gatik Trivedi go to school?
- Gatik Trivedi studied at UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program (Bachelor of Science - BS, EECS and Business Administration); Y Combinator (W26); University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management).
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