# Prathamesh Juvatkar

> Prathamesh Juvatkar is the co-founder and CTO of Nanonets, a Mountain View-based engineer and second-time founder whose path runs from IIT Gandhinagar's pioneer class and first incubated startup to Cubeit's acquisition by Myntra and an enterprise AI company serving customers around the world. His work has focused less on AI spectacle than on a stubborn operational question: how to turn messy documents and repetitive processes into reliable software workflows.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Nanonets
- **Organizations:** Nanonets, Cubeit, Myntra, GridAnts, Y Combinator, IIT Gandhinagar, California Institute of Technology, Marvell India
- **Education:** BTech in Electrical Engineering; minors in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Startup accelerator, Winter 2017 batch, Y Combinator, D. G. Ruparel College
- **Known for:** Received IIT Gandhinagar's Institute Gold Medal for the highest CPI in his graduating discipline., Co-founded GridAnts, the first startup incubated by IIT Gandhinagar., Co-founded Cubeit, which raised $3 million and was acquired by Myntra in 2016.

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Research intern at Marvell India, working on FPGA programming.
- **2011** — Summer undergraduate research fellow at Caltech on a Community Seismic Network project.
- **2012** — Graduated from IIT Gandhinagar with an Institute Gold Medal; co-authored and presented research on electric-vehicle motor design.
- **2012-2014** — Co-founded GridAnts, the first company incubated at IIT Gandhinagar.
- **2014-2016** — Co-founded Cubeit, a mobile content aggregation and sharing startup backed by Accel Partners and Helion Venture Partners.
- **2016** — Cubeit was acquired by Myntra; Juvatkar joined Myntra as a tech lead working on its Look Good social platform.
- **2016-present** — Co-founded Nanonets and serves as its technical leader, building AI systems for document and workflow automation.
- **2017** — Nanonets joined Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch.
- **2022** — Nanonets raised a $10 million Series A led by Elevation Capital; IIT Gandhinagar honored Juvatkar with its Young Alumni Excellence Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship.
- **2024** — Nanonets raised a $29 million Series B led by Accel, bringing reported total funding to $42 million.
- **2025** — Co-authored Nanonets-OCR-s, a model report on transforming documents into structured Markdown with content recognition and semantic tagging.
- **2026** — Publicly discussed enterprise AI context, evaluation, document intelligence and agent reliability while continuing to build at Nanonets.

## Achievements

- Received IIT Gandhinagar's Institute Gold Medal for the highest CPI in his graduating discipline.
- Co-founded GridAnts, the first startup incubated by IIT Gandhinagar.
- Co-founded Cubeit, which raised $3 million and was acquired by Myntra in 2016.
- Co-founded Nanonets and led the evolution of its technical stack from convolutional networks toward transformer and multimodal architectures.
- Helped Nanonets reach more than 10,000 customers globally by 2024, according to company figures reported by TechCrunch.
- Helped Nanonets raise $42 million in total funding by 2024, including a $29 million Series B led by Accel.
- Received IIT Gandhinagar's 2022 Young Alumni Excellence Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship.
- Co-authored research on electric-vehicle motor design and later on document intelligence.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Continues to build at Nanonets while publicly discussing enterprise AI context, model evaluation and reliable agent behavior.
- **2026-04** — Shared plans to attend Data Science Dojo's Agentic AI Conference.
- **2025-07** — Nanonets-OCR-s, co-authored by Juvatkar, was released as a document-to-structured-Markdown model report.
- **2024-03** — Nanonets announced a $29 million Series B led by Accel; Juvatkar outlined plans to invest in model accuracy, research and development.

## Links

- Website: https://nanonets.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathameshjuvatkar
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/PJuvatkar

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