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Niyaz Puzhikkunnath
InvestorFounderCPO at Papaya
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
FoundedPapaya · YC
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About
Niyaz Puzhikkunnath is the founder and CPO of Papaya. He was previously a Senior SDE at Amazon, where he worked on large-scale ML systems spanning computer vision, classification, and LLMs/agents—including brand and product classification, agent evaluation workflows, and a self-service ML training pipeline—and earlier was an early engineer at Zovi.com, contributing to its front-end architecture and internal analytics.
CPO at PapayaYC F26
Intro paths
Niyaz went through Y Combinator (Fall 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Andrew Miklas, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Papaya's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Niyaz Puzhikkunnath?
- Niyaz Puzhikkunnath is the founder and CPO of Papaya. He was previously a Senior SDE at Amazon, where he worked on large-scale ML systems spanning computer vision, classification, and LLMs/agents—including brand and product classification, agent evaluation workflows, and a self-service ML training pipeline—and earlier was an early engineer at Zovi.com, contributing to its front-end architecture and internal analytics.
- Where does Niyaz Puzhikkunnath work?
- Niyaz Puzhikkunnath is CPO of Papaya.
- What companies did Niyaz Puzhikkunnath found?
- Niyaz Puzhikkunnath founded Papaya.
- What companies has Niyaz Puzhikkunnath invested in?
- Investments tracked here include HEVN, inc, Intelligence Factory, RealRoots, Sygaldry Technologies.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,594
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Venture Investment Associates mafia8
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Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam mafia3
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
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