About
Pratham Bansal studied engineering at IIT Delhi and conducted machine learning research at Caltech and Rice. He previously worked on AI system deployment for Fortune 500 enterprises at Booz & Company, and built ML inference optimization software that was acquired by an NVIDIA-backed company.
Founder at LanesurfYC S25
Intro paths
Pratham went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Lanesurf's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Pratham can intro founders to Lanesurf's investors below.
Lanesurf's investors · 2
Co-founders at Lanesurf
Experience
- LanesurfCo-Foundercurrent2024 — present
- Booz & Company.Associate2023 — 2024
- CaltechML Research2021
- Rice UniversityML Research2021
- MIT Sloan School of ManagementInnovator-in-Residence2020
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Pratham Bansal?
- Pratham Bansal studied engineering at IIT Delhi and conducted machine learning research at Caltech and Rice. He previously worked on AI system deployment for Fortune 500 enterprises at Booz & Company, and built ML inference optimization software that was acquired by an NVIDIA-backed company.
- Where does Pratham Bansal work?
- Pratham Bansal is Founder of Lanesurf.
- What companies did Pratham Bansal found?
- Pratham Bansal founded Lanesurf.
- Where did Pratham Bansal go to school?
- Pratham Bansal studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (B.Tech, Engineering).
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