Frank Wang

Panta (YC W26) | Hacked on compiler, now hack on people

Co-founder

Panta· Winter 2026 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

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2025Co-founder· Panta (YC W26)

Founder · since 2025

Company

Panta (YC W26)

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Panta

AI Native Commercial Insurance Brokerage

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

Panta (YC W26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Apple
Full Stack Engineer · 2024 – 2025
2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Coding Tutor · Champaign, Illinois, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Course Consultant · Champaign, Illinois, United States · 2023
2023
Metrixx
Quantitative Software Developer Intern · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2023
2023
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Student Researcher · Champaign, Illinois, United States · 2023
2023
Founder Securities Co., Ltd.
Intern of Financial Engineering Group · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 2021
2021

Bio

Founder at Panta (W26), building a commercial insurance brokerage powered by AI agents. Previously, he worked as a full-stack engineering contractor supporting Apple, where he built generative-AI and real-time systems. He contributes to the Gleam programming language and Rust's cargo-semver-checks, and earned an M.S. in Financial Engineering from UIUC with a 3.94 GPA and the Dr. Z. Ju Scholarship.