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Yaman Ziadeh

Founder

Founder & CTO at Panacea

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedPanacea · YC

About

Yaman Ziadeh is an AI platform engineer who previously worked at Anterior and Bloomberg on infrastructure and database systems. He holds an MS in AI from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and co-founded Baqi, a bootstrapped platform that grew to significant enterprise adoption.

Founder & CTO at PanaceaYC X26

Intro paths

YC

Yaman went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Panacea's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Yaman can intro founders to Panacea's investors below.

Panacea's investors · 3

Phaze VenturesMuscat · $1M – $22M checksValar Ventures LlcSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Panacea

HJHaris Javed-Akhtar
Haris Javed-AkhtarFounder & CEO

Experience

  1. PanaceaFounder & CTOcurrent2026 — present
  2. AnteriorAI Platform Engineer2025 — 2026Manhattan, NY
  3. BaqiFounder & CTO2025 — 2026Manhattan, NY
  4. Bloomberg LPSoftware Engineer2022 — 2025Manhattan, NY

Skills & more

AWS BedrockDeep Neural Networks (DNN)Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)Data ScienceTransformersNixTypeScriptAmazon Web Services (AWS)DatadogMachine Learning2Artificial Intelligence (AI)2
+12 moreComputer VisionDockerMySQLKubernetesSoftware InfrastructureSoftware DesignApache ZooKeeperRedisDistributed SystemsCassandraVersion ControlWeb Development

Languages Arabic · English

From Yaman's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Yaman Ziadeh?
Yaman Ziadeh is an AI platform engineer who previously worked at Anterior and Bloomberg on infrastructure and database systems. He holds an MS in AI from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and co-founded Baqi, a bootstrapped platform that grew to significant enterprise adoption.
Where does Yaman Ziadeh work?
Yaman Ziadeh is Founder & CTO of Panacea.
What companies did Yaman Ziadeh found?
Yaman Ziadeh founded Panacea.
Where did Yaman Ziadeh go to school?
Yaman Ziadeh studied at University of Illinois Chicago (Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence); University of Illinois Chicago (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,773

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University of Illinois Chicago mafia10

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

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Anterior mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Haris Javed-AkhtarPartnerships LeadFounded Panacea

Same school

Also attended University of Illinois Chicago45

Sam BlackmanEntrepreneur in Residence at GV (Google Ventures)Kate WilschutzChief Financial Officer, Revolution Funds at RevolutionSteve ShafferOperating Partner at Volition CapitalAnshul SadanaCEO, Nexthop AI at EMERGENT VENTURESStefano GaliassoVice President at Energy Capital VenturesBoris GyllhamnInvestor at Almi Invest

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Shared employers

Also worked at Panacea1

Haris Javed-AkhtarFounder & CEO at Panacea

Also worked at Anterior3

Mandeep SinghScout at Andreessen HorowitzDesigan ChinniahVenture Partner at Mozilla VenturesHaris Javed-AkhtarFounder & CEO at Panacea

Also worked at Bloomberg LP154

Reed HastingsCo-founder of NetflixEric WagnerVP of Research and Data at Redpoint VenturesVivek GopalanInvestment Team at 8VCAndrea GurnariInvestor at Moonfire VenturesAllison PavlickInvestor Relations Principal at S32Adriana RocheHead of Talent at Uncork Capital

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