Aarav Patel

Aarav Patel Occupation Co-Founder Employer Liquid Compute Location New York, NY LinkedIn Profile Aarav Patel is an American technology entrepreneur and markets-infrastructure executive who co-founded and serves as president of Liquid Compute, a company developing a marketplace for artificial-intelligence computing capacity and pursuing a proposed regulated futures-market and clearing structure for contracts linked to compute pricing. As president, Patel has worked on the company’s effort to build market infrastructure around the procurement, allocation and pricing of compute. The project combines elements of electronic trading, market-data development, price discovery, liquidity formation and post-trade infrastructure. Background Liquid Compute Patel co-founded Liquid Compute, formerly known as Pluto, with Ronit Jain. The New York-based company emerged from stealth in September 2026 after raising $15 million in seed financing. Background Education Patel studied engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he met Ronit Jain. Liquid Compute later participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch, which provided the founders with early-stage startup support as they developed the company’s compute-marketplace model. References

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