Pranjal Daga

CEO, Accend (YC S23) | AI credit analyst that cuts underwriting time 80% for banks & fintech lenders | ex-Brex product; 10+ yrs building & researching AI

Co-founder

Accend· Summer 2023 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @pranjaldaga1

2023Co-founder· Accend (YC S23)

Founder · since 2023

Company

Accend (YC S23)

Role

Co-Founder & CEO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Accend

AI agents for commercial underwriting at banks and fintechs

Summer 2023

Experience

Career

Accend (YC S23)
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CEO · 2023 – Present
2023
Pear VC
Builder Fellow · San Francisco, California, United States · 2020 – Present
2020
On Deck
Fellow ODF1 · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – Present
2019
Brex
Product · San Francisco, California, United States · 2021 – 2023
2021
Saison Capital
VC Scout · 2021
2021
Vonzos Partners
Entrepreneur In Residence · San Francisco Bay Area · 2018 – 2021
2018
Cisco
Machine Learning Product Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017 – 2021
2017
Purdue University
Graduate Researcher · West Lafayette · 2015 – 2017
2015
Adobe Research
Deep Learning/NLP Researcher · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016
2016
IBM Research
Researcher · Remote project · 2014 – 2015
2014
Northwestern University
Machine Learning Researcher · Evanston, Illinois · 2015
2015
University of Alberta
Mitacs Globalink Researcher · Edmonton, Canada Area · 2014
2014

Bio

Currently, Cofounder of Accend. Previously, I led Product for AI initiatives, particularly in Risk at Brex. Before that, I dropped out of my PhD in AI/ML at Purdue University to help set up Cisco Innovation Labs where I grew the team from 1 to 35 in 4 years.