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Prat Mallick

Investor

Principal at Xfund

Cambridge, Harvard Square

About

Prat Mallick is a Principal at Xfund, working from the firm's Cambridge office. He previously co-founded and led a YCombinator-backed cybersecurity startup and was the founding go-to-market hire at an AI-focused government contracting startup, and he conducted AI safety and foundation model regulation research with Harvard Professor Daniel Carpenter. Earlier he worked at General Catalyst, where he helped launch the General Catalyst Institute and supported the firm's acquisitions of La Famiglia and Venture Highway; he is a Harvard College graduate.

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Prat Mallick @pratmallick

sic semper tyrannis https://t.co/X3fDqOnV8i

Jul 14, 2026 Β· β™₯ 1

Prat Mallick @pratmallick

Seeing the one shared brain cell of the conservative movement short circuit over this is incredibly comical. https://t.co/UkNr0SZDe6

Jul 2, 2026 Β· β™₯ 1

Prat Mallick @pratmallick

calling it early: Ossoff-Cortez 2028

Jul 2, 2026

Experience

  1. XfundPrincipalcurrent2025 β€” present
  2. Massachusetts AI CoalitionStart Here, Stay Here, Scale Herecurrent2026 β€” present
  3. Riverbank (YC S25)Co-Founder2024 β€” 2025
  4. GC Venture FellowsManaging Director2023 β€” 2025
  5. SweetspotFounding Growth & Engineering2023 β€” 2024
  6. General CatalystStrategic Initiatives2023
  7. PolicyEngineSoftware Engineer2020 β€” 2021

Education

  1. Harvard UniversityGovernment and Computer Science
  2. Plano East Sr High School
  3. Y Combinator

Skills & more

Sweetspot

From Prat's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Harvard University1,171

Alfred LinPartner at Sequoia CapitalChris DixonFounder & Managing Partner of a16z crypto at Andreessen HorowitzSarah TavelVenture Partner at BenchmarkDanny RimerPartner at Index VenturesLaela SturdyManaging Partner at CapitalGRyan IsonoDeal Partner at Felicis Ventures

+ 1,165 more

Also attended Y Combinator186

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

+ 180 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Massachusetts AI Coalition3

Ali MahmoudPrincipal at Glasswing VenturesMike TroianoPartner at G20 VenturesGiuseppe StutoCo-Founder, Managing Partner at 186 Ventures

Also worked at GC Venture Fellows23

Micherice TaoInvestor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Max ZangInvestor at AudaciousChris HarperPartner at Torch CapitalHanseul NamInvestor at Spark CapitalPratik AgarwalPartner at AccelNimi KatragaddaPartner at BoxGroup

+ 17 more

Also worked at General Catalyst93

Brad GerstnerFounder & CEO of Altimeter CapitalHemant TanejaCEO & Managing Director of General CatalystKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Alexis AbramsPartner, General Counsel at Felicis VenturesAdam ValkinInvestment Team at General CatalystAlex TranInvestment Team at General Catalyst

+ 87 more

Colleagues at Xfund

Alex Pentland
Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences at MIT at Xfund
Andrew Williamson
Managing Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital at Xfund
Bob Pozen
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management at Xfund
Brandon Farwell
General Partner at Xfund
Cherry Murray
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, Harvard University at Xfund
Deborah Spar
Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School at Xfund
Don Wood
Managing Director Emeritus, DFJ at Xfund
Elise Bates
Senior Director of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Foundry, Harvard Business School at Xfund