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About
Paras Maniar is a cofounder of Text.ai with prior experience at JPMorgan, McKinsey, and Gannett/USA Today. He holds a JD and MBA from Northwestern University and a BA from UC Berkeley.
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- p•••@text.aireveal75% confident
Founder at Text.aiYC X25
Intro paths
Paras went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Text.ai's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Paras can intro founders to Text.ai's investors below.
Text.ai's investors · 7
Co-founders at Text.ai
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Paras Maniar?
- Paras Maniar is a cofounder of Text.ai with prior experience at JPMorgan, McKinsey, and Gannett/USA Today. He holds a JD and MBA from Northwestern University and a BA from UC Berkeley.
- Where does Paras Maniar work?
- Paras Maniar is Founder of Text.ai.
- What companies did Paras Maniar found?
- Paras Maniar founded Text.ai.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,594
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University of California, Berkeley mafia1,343
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McKinsey & Company mafia937
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Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management mafia327
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) mafia59
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
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