Ali Khalatpour
Founder/CEOFounder (YC W26), reimagining AI compute architectures | PhD EE (MIT → NASA → Stanford)
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
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AI infrastructure
Piris Labs
Overview
Up to 80% of the most advance AI compute chips sits idle because of slow networking. Piris Labs builds photonic based networking solutions to enable fast, scalable, and low cost AI workload execution infrastructure.
Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Founders & team
Previously Piris Inc., Pirislabs
Company history As recorded 2026-11-08
Keyvan Moghadam
Founder/PresidentI am an AI technologist with a decade of experience scaling AI/ML products. At Meta and X, I specialized in leading tiger teams to launch high-stakes 0-to-1 initiatives. Now, I am the Co-Founder of Piris Labs. We are building high-speed photonic interconnects to solve the energy and latency constraints for AI data inference. My current focus is to iterate on our inference service and onboard customers into our platform.
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
8team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15
Founded 2025 · Source
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Winter 2026Winter 2026
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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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