3x founder

Josh Purtell

Growing the GDP of Automation Software

Founder

Synth· Fall 2024 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @JoshPurtell

2024Founder· Synth AI

Founder · since 2022

Company

Synth AI

Role

Founder, CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Synth

Prompt and Context Optimization for Coding Agents

Fall 2024

Experience

Career

Synth AI
Founder
Founder, CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Basis
Founder
Founding Machine Learning Research Scientist · New York, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
Halborn
Data Scientist · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2023
2023
Halborn
Software Developer · New York, New York, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Politeia, Inc
Co-founder
Technical Cofounder · New York, New York, United States · 2022
2022
Yale University
Researcher, Theoretical and Applied Econometrics · New Haven, Connecticut, United States · 2021
2021
Yale University
Research Assistant, Spatial Economics · New Haven, Connecticut, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Yale University
Research Assistant, Computational Game Theory · New Haven, Connecticut, United States · 2019 – 2020
2019
Carnegie Mellon University
Research Assistant, Macroeconomics · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 2019
2019
Fortunoff Video Archive
Slavic Languages Translator · New Haven, Connecticut · 2018 – 2019
2018
STAR collaboration
Researcher · New Haven, Connecticut · 2018
2018
Chu Financial Management Corp.
Intern · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 2017
2017
Penetration Tester
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 2016 – 2017
2016

Bio

Josh is the founder and CEO of Synth. Before Synth, Josh was employee #3 and research scientist at Basis, which uses AI agents to automate accounting tasks. Previously, he built out the ML core of a Cyber Threat Intelligence SaaS product at Halborn, a cyber security startup that acqui-hired his startup Politeia. He founded Politeia while wrapping up a Math undergrad at Yale, where he did time-series ml research for fun.