Alex Avnit

Alex Avnit is the CRO and Co-Founder of Paloma, an AI-native CRM developed during the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch. Paloma focuses on automating quoting, billing, and revenue analytics by unifying contracts, service consumption, and customer relationships to improve post-sales operations and proactively manage upsell and churn. theorg+3

He possesses strong leadership and operational expertise, honed through his role as COO at Thrill Labs where he built the operating engine, and as Associate Director Operations at Deel where he was responsible for a business unit generating $144M ARR in Employer of Record (EOR) services. theorg

With a foundational background in quantitative finance and actuarial science from the University of Cape Town, Alex Avnit transitioned into data science roles at P:Cubed and Barclays, and further applied his analytical skills in FinCrime Product at Revolut, where he conducted large-scale fraud investigations. theorg+2