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Kiran Mohan

Founder

Founder at Lexi

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedLexi · YC

About

Kiran Mohan was part of the founding team at Ethlas, a Sequoia-backed startup, where he helped grow the company to over 100,000 users and $2 million in annual recurring revenue. He previously developed high-frequency trading systems at Grasshopper that handled significant trading volumes. He is now building AI-powered legal software at Lexi.

Founder at LexiYC F25

Intro paths

YC

Kiran went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

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

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In turn, Kiran can intro founders to Lexi's investors below.

Lexi's investors · 5

Alumni VenturesManchester · $100K – $10M checks · since 2026HBS Alumni AngelsPalo Alto · $750K – $2M checks · since 2026Informed Ventures Advisors, LlcMenlo Park · since 2026Van Wickle VenturesProvidence · $25K – $50K checks · since 2026Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Lexi

HGHarshit Garg
Harshit GargFounder

Experience

  1. LexiFoundercurrent2025 — present
  2. EthlasEngineering Manager2022 — 2025Singapore
  3. GrasshopperSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022Singapore
  4. ShopeeData Scientist2021Singapore
  5. Stealth StartupSoftware Engineer2020 — 2021Singapore
  6. EYData Scientist2020Singapore

Skills & more

GPT-3Named Entity Recognition (NER)Text-to-Image GenerationSmart Contracts1GPT-41Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)1Solution ArchitectureFirebaseCloud FirestoreOpenCVHiveGradient Boosting
+12 moreOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Information RetrievalData AnalysisGraphQLApollo GraphQLAPI GatewaysJestMocha (JavaScript Framework)Chai.jsTokenizationData PipelinesExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)

Languages English · Hindi · Sanskrit · Tamil · Telugu

  • AI Agents - MCP — Hugging Face
  • Social and Behavioral Research — CITI Program
  • Creating a Culture of Strategy Execution — LinkedIn
  • Bloomberg Market Concepts — Bloomberg
  • Strategic Thinking — LinkedIn
  • Engineering Virtual Program — Goldman Sachs
  • Google Cloud Essentials — Google
  • Zilliqa Blockchain (DApps) — Zilliqa
  • The Data Science Course 2020 — 365 Data Science
  • Applied Data: Blockchain — Google

From Kiran's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Kiran Mohan?
Kiran Mohan was part of the founding team at Ethlas, a Sequoia-backed startup, where he helped grow the company to over 100,000 users and $2 million in annual recurring revenue. He previously developed high-frequency trading systems at Grasshopper that handled significant trading volumes. He is now building AI-powered legal software at Lexi.
Where does Kiran Mohan work?
Kiran Mohan is Founder of Lexi.
What companies did Kiran Mohan found?
Kiran Mohan founded Lexi.
Where did Kiran Mohan go to school?
Kiran Mohan studied at Y Combinator (F25, LegalTech); Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science).

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Harshit GargFounder at Lexi

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