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Praneet Mhatre

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Founder at Lumara

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedLumara

About

Praneet Mhatre is the CTO and co-founder of Lumara Health, a company building AI for the core workflows of health plans, brokers, and TPAs. He has worked in AI/ML systems for approximately 15 years, beginning as a graduate researcher in large-scale machine learning and later working in distributed systems, applied ML, and data engineering before moving into engineering leadership, where he led the launch of an AI-driven personalization SaaS platform at a venture-backed startup that was subsequently acquired. He later worked in forward-deployed AI engineering at a tier-1 consulting firm, focusing on AI transformation projects in regulated industries including healthcare and financial services.

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Lumara's investors · 1

One Way VenturesNew York · $500K – $1.5M checks

Experience

  1. Lumara HealthCTO & Co-Foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Principal AI Engineer2022 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
  3. BCG XPrincipal AI Engineer2022 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
  4. FormationVice President Of Engineering2016 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Zillow GroupSenior Data Scientist2015 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  6. OutworX CorporationPrincipal Engineer2015Noida Area, India
  7. TruliaData Mining Engineer2012 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
  8. UC IrvineGraduate Student Researcher2011 — 2012Orange County, California Area

Skills & more

Machine Learning32Algorithms15Big Data7Information Retrieval7Scalability4Weka7Data Mining4Distributed Systems1Software Architectural Design1Lucene1APIs1Hadoop20
+9 moreJavaSQLMapReduceMahoutC++Open SourceMatlabLinuxC

Languages English · Hindi · Marathi

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Who is Praneet Mhatre?
Praneet Mhatre is the CTO and co-founder of Lumara Health, a company building AI for the core workflows of health plans, brokers, and TPAs. He has worked in AI/ML systems for approximately 15 years, beginning as a graduate researcher in large-scale machine learning and later working in distributed systems, applied ML, and data engineering before moving into engineering leadership, where he led the launch of an AI-driven personalization SaaS platform at a venture-backed startup that was subsequently acquired. He later worked in forward-deployed AI engineering at a tier-1 consulting firm, focusing on AI transformation projects in regulated industries including healthcare and financial services.
Where does Praneet Mhatre work?
Praneet Mhatre is Founder of Lumara.
What companies did Praneet Mhatre found?
Praneet Mhatre founded Lumara.
Where did Praneet Mhatre go to school?
Praneet Mhatre studied at UC Irvine (Master of Science, Computer Science); Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) (Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering).

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