# Petrarch

[Petrarch on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/petrarch)

Startup · 3 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://petrarch.co/)
- [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/petrarch-e3b1)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/petrarch)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/petrarchinc)
- [X](https://x.com/petrarchinc?s=11)

## About

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## YC company profile

Advancing model capabilities for critical infrastructure

Petrarch works with bankruptcy courts to source records from enterprises in the critical infrastructure sectors, then rigorously de-identifies and transforms the data into RL environments and tasks.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 3
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Reinforcement Learning, B2B, Privacy, Data Engineering, AI
- **YC partner:** Vivian Midha Shen

## Founders

### Ian Lee — Founder/CEO

Founder at Petrarch. Previously Fellow at Meridian AI building training data and GTM infrastructure for AI-native Excel in financial services. Technical Advisor at Scale AI, working on quality filtering and annotation for agentic assistants and reasoning models. BA in Applied Mathematics and Psychology from Harvard.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/-ianlee)

### Samuel Hahn — Founder/COO

Founder at Petrarch. Previously led GTM at Magier AI (Techstars '24), building agentic PII-redaction and data-compliance products. Venture analyst at Mainstreet sourcing pre-seed fintech and deeptech. BA in Economics and History from Harvard.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelhahn9/)

### Sudhish Swain — Founder/CTO

Founder at Petrarch. Previously built computer vision software for medical equipment identification deployed in California hospitals as Head of Software Engineering at Clean Sweep Group. Research intern at Brigham and Women's Hospital analyzing spatial transcriptomic cancer datasets. BA Integrative Biology at Harvard.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhish-swain/)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/petrarch) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Ian Lee](https://hacklab.so/ian-lee-2) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Samuel Hahn](https://hacklab.so/samuel-hahn) — Founder/COO (Present)
- [Sudhish Swain](https://hacklab.so/sudhish-swain) — Founder/CTO (Present)