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Prasoon Shukla

Founder

Founder at Pretzel AI

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

FoundedPretzel AI · YC

About

Prasoon Shukla holds a degree in applied mathematics from IIT Roorkee and spent over seven years as a data scientist at Stripe, Goldman Sachs, and Klarna, where he developed machine learning models for payment fraud detection, credit assessment, and market risk analytics.

Founder at Pretzel AIYC W24

Intro paths

YC

Prasoon went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Prasoon can intro founders to Pretzel AI's investors below.

Pretzel AI's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Pretzel AI

RGRamon Garate
Ramon GarateFounder

Experience

  1. Cord (YC W24)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — presentBerlin, Germany
  2. Pretzel AI (YC W24)Co-Foundercurrent2023 — presentBerlin, Germany
  3. StripeSenior Data Scientist2021 — 2022Berlin, Germany
  4. KlarnaData Scientist2020 — 2021Berlin Metropolitan Area
  5. N26Data Scientist2018 — 2019Berlin Metropolitan Area
  6. Goldman SachsQuant Strat in Market Risk2016 — 2018Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  7. Google Summer of CodeDeveloper2015
  8. Information Management Group, IIT RoorkeeProject Coordinator and Software Developer2012 — 2015
  9. Google Summer of CodeDeveloper2014
  10. Google Summer of CodeDeveloper2013

Skills & more

Python20JavaScript5C++9RMySQL3TableauHTML3Linux3PHP2C2CSS1Django1
+12 moreGitSQLDockerggplotPandas (Software)TensorFlowLightGBMdplyrStatisticsScikit-LearnData ModelingMachine Learning

Languages English · Hindi

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Prasoon Shukla?
Prasoon Shukla holds a degree in applied mathematics from IIT Roorkee and spent over seven years as a data scientist at Stripe, Goldman Sachs, and Klarna, where he developed machine learning models for payment fraud detection, credit assessment, and market risk analytics.
Where does Prasoon Shukla work?
Prasoon Shukla is Founder of Pretzel AI.
What companies did Prasoon Shukla found?
Prasoon Shukla founded Pretzel AI.
Where did Prasoon Shukla go to school?
Prasoon Shukla studied at Y Combinator (W24); Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (BS and MS, Applied Mathematics); Udacity (Nanodegree, Advanced Machine Learning Engineer).

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