Varun Tandon

Building tools for cities and urban planners

Co-founder

Waypoint Transit· Winter 2025 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2024Co-founder· Waypoint

Founder · since 2024

Company

Waypoint

Role

Co-Founder, CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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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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Waypoint Transit

We automate urban planning so cities can build cheaper and faster.

Winter 2025

Experience

Career

Waypoint
Co-founder
Co-Founder, CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Microsoft
Data and Applied Scientist 2 · Mountain View, California, United States · 2024
2024
Microsoft
Data and Applied Scientist · Mountain View, California, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
Stanford Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection
Research Assistant · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2023
2019
Stanford University
CS109 Teaching Assistant (Probability for Computer Scientists) · Stanford, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Microsoft
Data Scientist Intern · Mountain View, California, United States · 2022
2022
Microsoft
Software Engineering Intern · 2021
2021
Stanford University
CS106 Section Leader (TA) · Stanford, California · 2019 – 2021
2019
Tesla
Software Engineering Intern · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2020 – 2021
2020
Oppia Foundation
Open Source Developer · 2019 – 2021
2019
Microsoft
Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2020
2020
Checkbook
Lead Software Engineering Intern · 2018 – 2019
2018
Stanford Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection
Research Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016
2016

Bio

Co-founder and CEO of Waypoint Transit. Previously, led applied ML initiatives at Microsoft. Worked on diffusion models and LLM/LMMs for flagship Office products, including Copilot, Designer, and PowerPoint. B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.