Neel Palrecha is the Founder and CEO of FriskAI, a runtime intelligence platform giving enterprises full visibility into what their AI agents are doing once deployed in production.

Neel built a distinguished engineering career as CTO at PlayVS, VP of Engineering at Headspace, and Engineering Manager at Apple, accumulating deep expertise in uptime-critical production systems.

A Y Combinator alumnus, Neel identified a critical blind spot in enterprise AI: companies can monitor servers and employees, but lack runtime intelligence for AI agents acting autonomously.

FriskAI launched from stealth in 2025 and raised $3.6M in pre-seed funding led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Wischoff Ventures, NEA partner Rick Yang, and Detroit Venture Partners.

FriskAI targets the agentic AI security market, projected to grow from $1.65B in 2026 to $13.52B by 2032, positioning itself as the foundational observability layer for enterprise AI agent deployment.