Marinos Eliades is Co-Founder of Prized (YC S26), an AI-powered platform that lets non-engineers build and deploy secure internal tools without relying on engineering teams.

Marinos studied Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and previously served in the National Guard of Cyprus.

Marinos brings a rare blend of hardware and software intuition, having co-founded Loophole, a cross-platform AI employee onboarding tool, alongside his engineering career.

He was an engineer at Gander (YC F24), a 0-to-1 fleet management platform for the private jet industry that was acquired by Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR), where he built core infrastructure.

Prized, backed by Y Combinator's S26 batch, empowers ops, finance, and support teams to ship governed internal tools with AI, eliminating bottlenecks between non-engineers and engineering.