Where does Suhail Doshi work?

Suhail Doshi is Co-founder & CEO of Mixpanel and Founder & CEO at Playground.

What companies did Suhail Doshi found?

Suhail Doshi founded Mixpanel, Playground.

Where did Suhail Doshi go to school?

Suhail Doshi studied at Y Combinator (Starting a company (again)); Y Combinator (Eating beans & rice); Arizona State University (Computer Systems Engineering).

What awards has Suhail Doshi received?

Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology (2013).

What podcasts and interviews feature Suhail Doshi?

Tracked appearances include "Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model", "The Future of AI Artistry with Suhail Doshi", "The AI-First Graphics Editor", and 1 more.

Suhail Doshi

Unicorn founder

Co-founder & CEO at Mixpanel · Founder & CEO at Playground

San Francisco, CA

FoundedMixpanel$1.1B · YC Playground · YC

30 Under 30 2013 · Consumer Technology

About

Suhail Doshi co-founded Mixpanel at 20 with Tim Trefren after dropping out of Arizona State for Y Combinator's Summer 2009 batch, and built the analytics company that taught a generation of startups to measure what their products actually do — worth around $865 million by the time he handed over the CEO seat in 2018. He has kept picking the hardest problems available since: Mighty, which streamed a full browser from cloud servers, and Playground, an AI-first graphics editor that trained its own state-of-the-art diffusion models. He now builds Particle, an AI-infrastructure startup working on post-training, inference optimisation and distributed systems.

Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

s•••@mixpanel.comreveal75% confident

Beyond investing

Founded: Co-founded Mixpanel in 2009 with Tim Trefren, whom he met in a maths course at Arizona State; the pair went through Y Combinator at 20. Built Mighty to stream a full browser from cloud servers — a bet on remote compute he called off himself when he measured that server chips were improving slower than local ones. Playground, his AI-first graphics editor, raised about $40m and trained its own state-of-the-art diffusion models, Playground v2 and v3.
Communities: A member of the Little Tech Association; in 2026 he urged the administration not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, warning 'there'll be hundreds of companies that instantly die.'
Awards: Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology (2013).
More: Now builds Particle, an AI-infrastructure startup working on post-training, inference optimisation and distributed systems.

Mentioned above: the Y Combinator mafia → · the Y Combinator mafia → · the Mixpanel mafia →

From published sources — common ground for a warm intro.

Founder & CEO at Playground YC S19

Intro paths

Suhail went through Y Combinator (Summer 2019) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Suhail can intro founders to Playground's investors below.

Playground's investors · 4

Caffeinated CapitalSan Francisco · $3M – $50M checks SciFi VCSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checks Shrug CapitalSunnyvale · $100K – $3M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2019

Co-founder & CEO at Mixpanel YC S09

Intro paths

Suhail went through Y Combinator (Summer 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

→

In turn, Suhail can intro founders to Mixpanel's investors below.

Mixpanel's investors · 5

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks Bain Capital Tech OpportunitiesBoston Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Co-founders at Mixpanel

Tim TrefrenFounder

Experience

MightyCEO & Founder2019 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
Mixpanel, Inc.CEO & Founder2008 — 2018
SlideSoftware Engineer Intern2008

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Suhail Doshi

Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model

Lightcone

The Future of AI Artistry with Suhail Doshi

No Priors

The AI-First Graphics Editor

Latent Space · latent.space

How to measure your product

Y Combinator

Frequently asked questions

Who is Suhail Doshi?: Suhail Doshi co-founded Mixpanel at 20 with Tim Trefren after dropping out of Arizona State for Y Combinator's Summer 2009 batch, and built the analytics company that taught a generation of startups to measure what their products actually do — worth around $865 million by the time he handed over the CEO seat in 2018. He has kept picking the hardest problems available since: Mighty, which streamed a full browser from cloud servers, and Playground, an AI-first graphics editor that trained its own state-of-the-art diffusion models. He now builds Particle, an AI-infrastructure startup working on post-training, inference optimisation and distributed systems.
Where does Suhail Doshi work?: Suhail Doshi is Co-founder & CEO of Mixpanel and Founder & CEO at Playground.
What companies did Suhail Doshi found?: Suhail Doshi founded Mixpanel, Playground.
Where did Suhail Doshi go to school?: Suhail Doshi studied at Y Combinator (Starting a company (again)); Y Combinator (Eating beans & rice); Arizona State University (Computer Systems Engineering).
What awards has Suhail Doshi received?: Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology (2013).
What podcasts and interviews feature Suhail Doshi?: Tracked appearances include "Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model", "The Future of AI Artistry with Suhail Doshi", "The AI-First Graphics Editor", and 1 more.