# Sriram Somasundaram

> Sriram “Sri” Somasundaram is the San Francisco-based co-founder and co-CEO of Latent, which he started with first-grade friend Rishabh Jain in 2022. His background includes USC and Stanford computer science, co-authored research at ICML and ICLR, and work on Hebbia’s founding team applying language models at financial institutions.

- **Role:** Co-founder and co-CEO at Latent
- **Organizations:** Latent, Hebbia, Stanford University, University of Southern California, Riot Games, Raytheon, Quid
- **Education:** Master of Science in Computer Science, Stanford University, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Southern California
- **Known for:** Co-author of papers published at ICML 2018 and ICLR 2019., USC computer science graduate, summa cum laude, with a reported 3.97/4.0 GPA in his CV., Member of Hebbia’s founding team.

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Engineering intern at Quid; discussed a pipeline integration project in an August employee spotlight.
- **2018** — Co-authored Neural Program Synthesis from Diverse Demonstration Videos at ICML.
- **2019** — Co-authored Composing Complex Skills by Learning Transition Policies with Proximity Reward Induction at ICLR; began Stanford master’s program.
- **2021** — Stanford master’s program end date listed in his CV.
- **—** — Worked on Hebbia’s founding team applying language models at financial institutions, before Latent.
- **2022** — Co-founded Latent with Rishabh Jain.
- **2023** — Latent participated in Y Combinator Winter 2023.
- **2026** — Latent announced an $80 million Series A in March.

## Achievements

- Co-author of papers published at ICML 2018 and ICLR 2019.
- USC computer science graduate, summa cum laude, with a reported 3.97/4.0 GPA in his CV.
- Member of Hebbia’s founding team.
- Co-founded Latent, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Latent announced an $80 million Series A co-led by Spark Capital and Transformation Capital.
- **2026-04** — Forbes included Latent in its AI 50 Brink List and identified Somasundaram and Jain as its CEOs.

## Links

- Website: https://srirams32.github.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssomasundaram/
- GitHub: https://github.com/SriramS32

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