Aagam Dalal is Co-Founder of Pond, an AI-native text messaging client that helps professionals save 3-5 hours per week managing messages. Pond was founded in 2025 and is part of Y Combinator's batch, serving salespeople, real estate agents, recruiters, and other busy professionals.

Aagam studied Computer Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and previously worked at Scale AI and Roblox. He and co-founder Brian Williams became friends reading machine learning papers together in college.

At Penn Labs, Aagam engineered APIs using Django-Rest and SQL, streamlining course selection and scheduling for a large user base. He also worked as a Product Manager at Roblox and held research roles at NIST and Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Pond is building an AI-powered desktop messaging app that integrates with iMessage and WhatsApp, offering automatic message prioritization, tagging, calendar integration, and AI-powered response drafting. The platform emphasizes privacy with on-device models for most features.

Pond helps users read and send texts at lightning speed with features like automatic prioritization, smart tagging to filter spam, and AI drafting that uses the user's voice. The company is based in San Francisco and is actively growing its user base among professionals who handle hundreds of messages weekly.