Pranjal Daga

About

Mr. Daga is the Co-Founder of Accend (YC S23), a Y Combinator–backed startup that accelerates manual reviews for fintech operations and compliance teams using advanced AI and automation. His work bridges the gap between technology and financial infrastructure, helping leading companies streamline risk, compliance, and fraud review workflows. Before founding Accend, Mr. Daga held product roles at Brex, where he built AI-driven financial tools, and served as a VC Scout with Saison Capital. A longtime member of the Bay Area startup ecosystem, he has been recognized as a Builder Fellow at Pear VC and an On Deck Founder Fellow, supporting and mentoring early-stage founders globally. Earlier in his career, he worked in machine learning and NLP at Cisco, Adobe Research, and IBM Research, and contributed to academic research at Northwestern University and Purdue University, where he earned his M.S. in Computer Science.