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Raj Bains is the founder and CEO of Prophecy. He previously served as product manager for Apache Hive at Hortonworks through the company's IPO and was a founding engineer on the CUDA compilers team at NVIDIA.
Founder at Prophecy
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Prophecy's investors · 7
Dallas Venture CapitalDallas · since 2023Databricks VenturesSan Francisco · since 2023HSBCLondonInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2025SignalFireSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2023SingTel Innov8 Pte Ltd.Singapore · $4M – $80M checks · since 2023Smith Point CapitalSan Francisco · since 2025
Co-founders at Prophecy
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Maciej SzpakowskiFounder
Founder at Prophecy
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Prophecy's investors · 10
Berkeley SkyDeck FundBerkeley · $200K checksDallas Venture CapitalDallas · since 2023Databricks VenturesSan Francisco · since 2023Dig Ventures Management LimitedSt Peter PortInsight PartnersNew York · $120M – $350M checks · since 2023Pathlight VenturesOld Bridge · $500K – $5M checksSignalFireSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2023SingTel Innov8 Pte Ltd.Singapore · $4M – $80M checks · since 2023Smith Point CapitalSan FranciscoSquareOne CapitalMiami
Co-founders at Prophecy
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Vikas Marwaha
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Maciej SzpakowskiFounder
Experience
- ProphecyFounder CEOcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- HortonworksProduct Management - Apache Hive (Hadoop)2014 — 2015Palo Alto
- Clustrix, Inc.Director of Products2012 — 2014San Francisco
- RMSEngineering Manager2011 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
- NVIDIASenior Software Engineer2007 — 2011San Francisco Bay Area
- MicrosoftSoftware Development Engineer2006 — 2007
- 3DlabsCompiler Developer2004 — 2006
- InriaResearch Intern2001Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
High Performance Computing40Algorithms24Distributed Systems33C++19Parallel Programming9Compilers5Databases12Software Engineering6Scalability8Software Development30GPU5CUDA4
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PythonParallel ComputingSystem ArchitectureComputer ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesSoftware DesignObject Oriented DesignGPGPUOptimizationsMultithreadingOptimizationOpenGL- Modern React with Redux — Udemy
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- Who is Raj Bains?
- Raj Bains is the founder and CEO of Prophecy. He previously served as product manager for Apache Hive at Hortonworks through the company's IPO and was a founding engineer on the CUDA compilers team at NVIDIA.
- Where does Raj Bains work?
- Raj Bains is Founder of Prophecy.
- What companies did Raj Bains found?
- Raj Bains founded Prophecy, Prophecy.
- Where did Raj Bains go to school?
- Raj Bains studied at University of California, Berkeley (SkyDeck, Startup Accelerator); University of California, Berkeley (Executive Product Management); Colorado State University (MS, Computer Science).
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Also attended University of California, Berkeley1,430
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Also attended Colorado State University36
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Shared employers
Also worked at Hortonworks12
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Also worked at NVIDIA114
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Also worked at Microsoft1,172
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