Tarun Vallabhaneni
FounderFounder at Rovi Health
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedRovi Health · YC
About
Tarun Vallabhaneni is CTO and co-founder of Rovi Health. He previously worked on AI models for weather prediction and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UChicago with a focus on AI and high-performance computing, as well as a B.S. in Biology from Cornell.
Founder at Rovi HealthYC F25
Intro paths
YC
Tarun went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Rovi Health's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Tarun can intro founders to Rovi Health's investors below.
Rovi Health's investors · 2
Co-founders at Rovi Health
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Santosh VallabhaneniFounder
Experience
- Rovi Health (YC F25)Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- University of ChicagoMachine Learning Researcher - Climate Extremes Theory and Data Group2024 — 2025Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics & ManagementResearch Assistant + Teaching Assistant2021 — 2022Ithaca, New York, United States
- Cornell iGEMBusiness Team Lead2020 — 2022Ithaca, New York, United States
- Trinity Life SciencesSummer Associate Consultant2022New York, New York, United States
- Progenic GenomicsSummer Intern2021San Francisco, California, United States
Skills & more
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Full-Stack DevelopmentDistributed SystemsComputer VisionDeep LearningHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Data EngineeringPython (Programming Language)Web DevelopmentReinforcement LearningParallel ProgrammingAlgorithms
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DatabasesCloud ComputingStochastic ProcessesGo (Programming Language)Computer ArchitectureQuantitative AnalyticsSales OperationsHealthcare ConsultingPricing StrategyQuantitative ResearchPyTorchC (Programming Language)From Tarun's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Tarun Vallabhaneni?
- Tarun Vallabhaneni is CTO and co-founder of Rovi Health. He previously worked on AI models for weather prediction and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UChicago with a focus on AI and high-performance computing, as well as a B.S. in Biology from Cornell.
- Where does Tarun Vallabhaneni work?
- Tarun Vallabhaneni is Founder of Rovi Health.
- What companies did Tarun Vallabhaneni found?
- Tarun Vallabhaneni founded Rovi Health.
- Where did Tarun Vallabhaneni go to school?
- Tarun Vallabhaneni studied at Y Combinator (F25); University of Chicago (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); Cornell University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology and Society).
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