About
Pranab Krishnan is founder and CTO of Zeal, a Y Combinator S19 company that provides an API for payroll infrastructure.
Pranab Krishnan @pranabkrishnan
Traditionally product teams have to fully anticipate what users need ahead of time, resulting in predefined dashboards, rigid workflows, and fixed navigation. Chatbots don't fix this central process problem. What if interfaces start to adapt dynamically around how people https://t.co/XSEGtF7m5J
May 11, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Pranab Krishnan @pranabkrishnan
Programming has always just been abstractions. Scratch did this really well (over one billion total projects have been created on the site) https://t.co/205l78yBut https://t.co/TH9E3R3kSj
Feb 13, 2025 Β· β₯ 5
Pranab Krishnan @pranabkrishnan
We are on the cusp of a space cambrian explosion https://t.co/0mGeYJd7Kl
Nov 12, 2024 Β· β₯ 6
Founder at ZealYC S19
Intro paths
Pranab went through Y Combinator (Summer 2019) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Pranab can intro founders to Zeal's investors below.
Zeal's investors Β· 7
Co-founders at Zeal
Experience
- ZealCTO and Co-Foundercurrent2018 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- --Angel Investorcurrent2019 β present
- MITREML Engineer2017 β 2019Mclean, Virginia
- National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)Bioinformatics Fellow2015 β 2016Bethesda, MD
Education
- Y Combinator2019
- University of PennsylvaniaComputer Science
- Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Skills & more
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Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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University of Pennsylvania mafia157
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology mafia20
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Same school
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Also attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology33
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Shared employers
Also worked at Zeal4
Also worked at MITRE22
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