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Ken Van Haren

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Founder at Patterns

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedPatterns · YC

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About

Ken Van Haren holds a PhD in statistics from Duke University and has previously worked at Google and Square before founding Patterns.

Founder at PatternsYC S21

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Ken went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Patterns's investors · 12

Amity VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checksAmplify PartnersMenlo Park · $500K – $5M checksAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checksCrystal Towers CapitalMountain ViewESSENCE VCBothell · since 2026Flex Capital PartnersSan Francisco · $500K – $2M checksMatthew BrownNewarkRoot Ventures Manager, LlcSan Francisco · $3M – $5M checksStandard CapitalSan Francisco · since 2026Twenty Two VenturesPalo Alto · $50K – $250K checks · since 2026Wayfinder VenturesSan Francisco · $300K – $1M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021

Co-founders at Patterns

CSChris Stanley
Chris StanleyFounder

Experience

  1. KVH Fund IIIInvestorcurrent2016 — present
  2. PatternsCo-Founder2021 — 2024SF
  3. SquareData Science Lead2013 — 2016
  4. GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2010
  5. SAMSIGraduate Research Fellow2009 — 2010
  6. LoomiaSoftware Engineer2008 — 2009
  7. AmeriCorps VISTAAmericorps Volunteer2004 — 2005Fresno, California, United States

Skills & more

Team Leadership1Recommender Systems6Natural Language Processing5Statistics22Machine Learning43Data Mining20Predictive Analytics1Django1Python25Bayesian statistics5Information Retrieval3Data Science4
+12 moreWeb DevelopmentMapReduceHadoopPostgreSQLRubySoftware EngineeringJavaTime Series AnalysisBig DataVolleyballProduct ManagementScrum

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Who is Ken Van Haren?
Ken Van Haren holds a PhD in statistics from Duke University and has previously worked at Google and Square before founding Patterns.
Where does Ken Van Haren work?
Ken Van Haren is Founder of Patterns.
What companies did Ken Van Haren found?
Ken Van Haren founded Patterns.
Where did Ken Van Haren go to school?
Ken Van Haren studied at Duke University (PhD Candidate, Machine Learning and Statistics); Y Combinator (S21); University of California, Santa Cruz (BA, Computational Mathematics).

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