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Prahar Patel

Founder

Founder at Text.ai

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedText.ai · YC

About

Prahar Patel is CTO at Text.ai with prior engineering leadership experience at Walmart, Eventbrite, OpenTable, and Amazon.

Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

Founder at Text.aiYC X25

Intro paths

YC

Prahar 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 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 ↗

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In turn, Prahar can intro founders to Text.ai's investors below.

Text.ai's investors · 2

SV AngelSan FranciscoY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Text.ai

RSRushi Shah
Rushi ShahFounder
PMParas Maniar
Paras ManiarFounder

Experience

  1. text.ai (YC X25)CTO & Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Walmart Global TechSenior Engineering Manager2025San Francisco Bay Area
  3. EventbriteSenior Engineering Manager2022 — 2025
  4. OpenTableSenior Lead Software Engineer2020 — 2022Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
  5. AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2020United States
  6. VisaSenior Software Engineer2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  7. Lockheed MartinSoftware Engineer2017 — 2018Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
  8. MDS Inc.Software Engineer2014 — 2017Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Skills & more

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipPeople ManagementLeadershipPersonalizationSearchManagementJavaSoftware DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Agile MethodologiesScrum
+12 moreObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)ProgrammingC++C#SQLPythonCHTMLServerless ComputingComputer ArchitectureMIPSAlgorithm Design

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Prahar Patel?
Prahar Patel is CTO at Text.ai with prior engineering leadership experience at Walmart, Eventbrite, OpenTable, and Amazon.
Where does Prahar Patel work?
Prahar Patel is Founder of Text.ai.
What companies did Prahar Patel found?
Prahar Patel founded Text.ai.
Where did Prahar Patel go to school?
Prahar Patel studied at Y Combinator; Georgia Institute of Technology (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); California State Polytechnic University-Pomona (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).

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Shared employers

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Rushi ShahFounder at Text.aiParas ManiarFounder at Text.ai

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