Pranav Reddy

Pranav Reddy is a partner at Conviction, the San Francisco, California venture firm founded by Sarah Guo to back AI-native companies. On his personal site he describes a path from neuroscience research on learning and epilepsy into engineering at Neeva, where he worked on indexing, retrieval, and language modeling, before joining Conviction as an early investor on the team.

First check into Instinct

Reddy was among the earliest backers of Instinct, the personal-AI-assistant startup, at a valuation of roughly $50 million, and later joined its board as a seed investor. Forbes coverage of the company's rise has described him as leading that first round. In the months that followed, Instinct raised a Kleiner Perkins-led Series A, subsequent rounds at multibillion-dollar marks, and a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation announced in late September 2026—about a 200-fold paper markup from the first check.