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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Experience
- XfundPrincipalcurrent2025 β present
- Massachusetts AI CoalitionStart Here, Stay Here, Scale Herecurrent2026 β present
- Riverbank (YC S25)Co-Founder2024 β 2025
- GC Venture FellowsManaging Director2023 β 2025
- SweetspotFounding Growth & Engineering2023 β 2024
- General CatalystStrategic Initiatives2023
- PolicyEngineSoftware Engineer2020 β 2021
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Skills & more
Sweetspot
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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
Elise Bates
Senior Director of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Foundry, Harvard Business School at Xfund
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Habib Haddad
Managing Partner at The E14 Fund
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Prat Mallick?
- 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.
- Where does Prat Mallick work?
- Prat Mallick is Principal at Xfund.
- Where did Prat Mallick go to school?
- Prat Mallick studied at Harvard University (Government and Computer Science); Plano East Sr High School; Y Combinator.
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