Hudson Griffith is Co-Founder and CEO of Prized (YC S26), an AI-powered platform that enables non-engineers to build, deploy, and share secure internal tools without writing code.

Hudson studied Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Florida, then launched his career as the founding engineer at Gander (YC F24), a fleet-management platform for the private jet industry that was acquired by Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR).

Hudson brings a rare combination of deep full-stack engineering experience and product intuition, having shipped features to millions of users at Suno and owned core architecture at an acquired YC startup.

At Prized, Hudson is tackling the shadow-IT problem head-on by making security the infrastructure default, ensuring credentials are workspace-scoped and tools can never cross organizational boundaries.

Prized, backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, empowers business teams to describe and instantly generate governed internal tools, eliminating engineering bottlenecks and unsafe AI workarounds across organizations.