About
Josh Purtell is founder and CEO of Synth. Previously, he served as research scientist at Basis, an AI-powered accounting automation platform, and built machine learning infrastructure for cyber threat intelligence at Halborn following an acqui-hire of his startup Politeia. He holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Yale, where he conducted time-series machine learning research.
Founder at SynthYC F24
Intro paths
YC
Josh went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Synth's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Josh can intro founders to Synth's investors below.
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Experience
- Synth AIFounder, CEOcurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- BasisFounding Machine Learning Research Scientist2023 β 2024New York, United States
- HalbornData Scientist2023New York City Metropolitan Area
- HalbornSoftware Developer2022 β 2023New York, New York, United States
- Politeia, IncTechnical Cofounder2022New York, New York, United States
- Yale UniversityResearcher, Theoretical and Applied Econometrics2021New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Yale UniversityResearch Assistant, Spatial Economics2020 β 2021New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Yale UniversityResearch Assistant, Computational Game Theory2019 β 2020New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearch Assistant, Macroeconomics2019Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Fortunoff Video ArchiveSlavic Languages Translator2018 β 2019New Haven, Connecticut
- STAR collaborationResearcher2018New Haven, Connecticut
- Chu Financial Management Corp.Intern2017Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- FreelancePenetration Tester2016 β 2017Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Skills & more
Emotional Intelligence1CommunicationLeadershipPublic SpeakingBlockchain1Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)Julia (Programming Language)Deep Neural Networks (DNN)PyTorchPythonC++tensorflow
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Data EngineeringBack-End Web DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct DesignPenetration TestingVulnerability AssessmentWeb Application SecuritySoftware Project ManagementFundraisingSalesScientific ComputingLinear AlgebraLanguages Chinese (Simplified) Β· Czech Β· Latin Β· Slovak Β· Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Josh Purtell?
- Josh Purtell is founder and CEO of Synth. Previously, he served as research scientist at Basis, an AI-powered accounting automation platform, and built machine learning infrastructure for cyber threat intelligence at Halborn following an acqui-hire of his startup Politeia. He holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Yale, where he conducted time-series machine learning research.
- Where does Josh Purtell work?
- Josh Purtell is Founder of Synth.
- What companies did Josh Purtell found?
- Josh Purtell founded Synth.
- Where did Josh Purtell go to school?
- Josh Purtell studied at Y Combinator; Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics).
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