About
Michael Trehan worked as a software engineer at Radiant Nuclear and in investment banking at JP Morgan, and holds a Master of Engineering and Technology degree from UC Berkeley. He is now building HABIT.
Founder at HABITYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Michael went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran HABIT's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Michael can intro founders to HABIT's investors below.
HABIT's investors · 1
Co-founders at HABIT
HP
Harish PalaniFounder
Experience
- HABITCo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentEl Segundo, California, United States
- RadiantSenior Software Engineer2024 — 2025Los Angeles, CA
- RadiantSoftware Engineer2023 — 2024Los Angeles, CA
- J.P. MorganInvestment Banking Analyst2021 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
- J.P. MorganInvestment Banking Summer Analyst2020San Francisco, California, United States
- Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoSoftware Project Management Intern2019San Francisco, California, United States
- Intel CorporationSoftware Engineering Intern2018Folsom, CA
Skills & more
Investment BankingJava Certified ProgrammerFinancial ModelingProject ManagementSpreadsheetsAmazon EC2Scaled Agile FrameworkDCFComparable AnalysisC#PythonRuby
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Microsoft OfficeJavaHTML5JavaScriptMicrosoft ExcelThinkScript (finance)- Series 79 (Investment Banking Representative) — FINRA
- Series 63 (Uniform Securities Agent) — FINRA
- Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 7 Programmer — Oracle
From Michael's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Michael Trehan?
- Michael Trehan worked as a software engineer at Radiant Nuclear and in investment banking at JP Morgan, and holds a Master of Engineering and Technology degree from UC Berkeley. He is now building HABIT.
- Where does Michael Trehan work?
- Michael Trehan is Founder of HABIT.
- What companies did Michael Trehan found?
- Michael Trehan founded HABIT.
- Where did Michael Trehan go to school?
- Michael Trehan studied at University of California, Berkeley (Dual-degree: B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; B.S.); UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program (M.E.T., EECS + Business); University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (B.S., Business Administration).
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Also worked at HABIT1
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