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Karan Brar

Founder

Founder/CEO at hiloop

San Francisco, California, United States

Foundedhiloop · YC

About

Founder and CEO of hiloop, which offers snapshottable, forkable compute infrastructure with built-in observability for AI agents running autoresearch. He previously worked in ML at Reducto and served as Head of ML Infra at DynamoAI.

Founder/CEO at hiloopYC S26

Intro paths

YC

Karan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran hiloop's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Karan can intro founders to hiloop's investors below.

hiloop's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at hiloop

TBThomas Boser
Thomas BoserFounder/CTO

Experience

  1. hiloop (YC S26)CEO & Co-foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
  2. ReductoMachine Learning Engineer2026San Francisco, CA
  3. Dynamo AIHead of ML Infrastructure2025 — 2026San Francisco, California, United States
  4. Dynamo AISenior Software Engineer2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  5. BMO Financial GroupSoftware Engineer2021 — 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Skills & more

C2Python2Git2LaTeX2Verilog2TensorFlow1Deep Neural Networks (DNN)DatabasesPyTorchAndroidJavaLinux
+12 morePostgreSQLMATLABPython (Programming Language)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Machine LearningDeep LearningAlgorithm DesignData ScienceData StructuresTechnical LeadershipLeadership

Languages English · Hindi · Punjabi

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Karan Brar?
Founder and CEO of hiloop, which offers snapshottable, forkable compute infrastructure with built-in observability for AI agents running autoresearch. He previously worked in ML at Reducto and served as Head of ML Infra at DynamoAI.
Where does Karan Brar work?
Karan Brar is Founder/CEO of hiloop.
What companies did Karan Brar found?
Karan Brar founded hiloop.
Where did Karan Brar go to school?
Karan Brar studied at University of Toronto (Honours Bachelor of Science - HBSc, Computer Science and Mathematics).

Founder mafias

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University of Toronto mafia155

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Reducto mafia5

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

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Same school

Also attended University of Toronto520

Ilya SutskeverCo-founder of OpenAI; co-founder & CEO of Safe SuperintelligenceNick FrosstCo-founder of CohereYasmin RazaviInvestor at Spark CapitalImran BashirFounding Partner, Chief Operating Officer at Extreme Venture PartnersKarim GillaniGeneral Partner at Luge CapitalAndrew MiklasGeneral Partner at Y Combinator

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Shared employers

Also worked at hiloop (YC S26)1

Thomas BoserFounder/CTO at hiloop

Also worked at Reducto7

Jennifer LiPartner at Andreessen HorowitzAdit AbrahamFounder at ReductoRaunak ChowdhuriFounder at ReductoRishi SrihariFounder at OpennoteAbhi AryaCo-Founder and CTO at OpennoteVedant VyasFounder at Opennote

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Also worked at Dynamo AI6

Raymond LiaoManaging Director at Samsung NextJishnu BhattacharjeeManaging Director at Nexus Venture PartnersArjun GandhiVice President at Nexus Venture PartnersChristian LauFounder at Dynamo AIVaikkunth MugunthanFounder at Dynamo AIKonstantin HohrFounder at Midrender

Also worked at BMO Financial Group60

AyshaAdvisor at Clear VenturesAdiam BerhaneAccounting Manager at QED InvestorsLindsay HamiltonInvestment Manager - Finance at Emerald Technology Ventures AgElena PavelCFO and Partner at Brightspark VenturesSteven LauFounder & CEO at WorldQuant VenturesS.K. LeeExecutive Coach at Roble Ventures

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