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Pratham Hombal

Founder

Founder at stratify

San Francisco, California, United States

Foundedstratify · YC

About

Pratham Hombal is CTO of Stratify. He studied Computer Science at Stanford and has worked on high-performance computing research and machine learning applications including plagiarism detection, biological analysis, and cancer detection.

Founder at stratifyYC X25

Intro paths

YC

Pratham went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Pratham can intro founders to stratify's investors below.

stratify's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at stratify

SJSiddhartha Javvaji
Siddhartha JavvajiFounder

Experience

  1. Stealth StartupCo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
  2. RocheSoftware Engineer2024
  3. myCollectorFounding Engineer2024
  4. Pear VCGarage Fellow2023 — 2024
  5. TravelersProduct Manager2023
  6. FoundersX VenturesEntrepreneur in Residence2023
  7. The Ecolibrium ProjectChief Executive Officer2019 — 2022
  8. NASA Ames Research CenterIntern2021
  9. Buchanan Bird BrainsDirector of Finance2018 — 2021
  10. SleuthConnectCo-Founder2021

Skills & more

Redis6Apache Kafka6CassandraKubernetesNumPyScaled Agile FrameworkMatplotlibSpring Boot7Spring MVCJavaTerraformREST APIs
+12 moreDatadogArgoCDPrometheusDockerAmazon Web Services (AWS)HTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)AWS LambdaLinuxUnixPython (Programming Language)Pandas

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Pratham Hombal?
Pratham Hombal is CTO of Stratify. He studied Computer Science at Stanford and has worked on high-performance computing research and machine learning applications including plagiarism detection, biological analysis, and cancer detection.
Where does Pratham Hombal work?
Pratham Hombal is Founder of stratify.
What companies did Pratham Hombal found?
Pratham Hombal founded stratify.
Where did Pratham Hombal go to school?
Pratham Hombal studied at Stanford University (Concurrent Bachelors / Masters, Computer Science); Y Combinator (X25); Buchanan High School (High School Diploma).

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