Harikrishna Narayanan
FounderFounder at Expent Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedExpent Inc · YC
About
Harikrishna Narayanan co-founded Expent in 2020. Previously, he directed the Machine Learning Services Product and Engineering group at Workday, and led data initiatives at Yahoo. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree from PSG Tech.
Founder at Expent IncYC W21
Intro paths
YC
Harikrishna went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Harikrishna can intro founders to Expent Inc's investors below.
Expent Inc's investors · 5
Co-founders at Expent Inc
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Srikanth VeeraraghavanFounder
Experience
- HyperproofHead of Artificial Intelligencecurrent2025 — present
- ExpentCo-Founder2020 — 2025
- WorkdayML/AI Product and Engineering Leader2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- YahooMember Of Technical Staff2009 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
Machine Learning5Big Data Analytics2Recommender Systems3Algorithms4Software Development2Data Mining2Neuroscience2Product Management2C++7Java6C4Python2
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Harikrishna Narayanan?
- Harikrishna Narayanan co-founded Expent in 2020. Previously, he directed the Machine Learning Services Product and Engineering group at Workday, and led data initiatives at Yahoo. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree from PSG Tech.
- Where does Harikrishna Narayanan work?
- Harikrishna Narayanan is Founder of Expent Inc.
- What companies did Harikrishna Narayanan found?
- Harikrishna Narayanan founded Expent Inc.
- Where did Harikrishna Narayanan go to school?
- Harikrishna Narayanan studied at Georgia Institute of Technology (MS, Computer Science); Stanford University (Research, Neuroscience); Indian Institute of Science (IISc) (Research, Machine Learning).
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