Dan Lahav → Impact Focused Education
Co-founder
2026-09-19
Co-founded the educational initiative.
Technical founder and commercial strategist
Dan Lahav
Irregular co-founder and CEO, connecting technical AI-security work, research partnerships and the company’s commercial strategy.
Background
Lahav co-founded Irregular with Omer Nevo and Impact Focused Education with Sella Nevo. RAND lists him as a co-author of its 2024 model-weights security report. EA Funds lists one joint 2022 MOOC grant to Lahav and Sella Nevo. These are public professional and grant relationships across different institutions.
Role in this network
Lahav co-founded Irregular with Omer Nevo and Impact Focused Education with Sella Nevo. RAND lists him as a co-author of its 2024 model-weights security report. EA Funds lists one joint 2022 MOOC grant to Lahav and Sella Nevo. These are public professional and grant relationships across different institutions.
Why the company starts inside labs
Lahav tells Sequoia that working with the first organizations facing frontier-model problems lets Irregular prepare for what general deployers will need six, twelve or twenty-four months later. This is a stated business strategy.
What the records show
Dan Lahav → RAND model-weights security report (2024)
Co-author
2026-09-19
Named author of the RAND publication.
Dan Lahav → Irregular / Pattern Labs
Co-founder / CEO
2026-09-19
Public founder and executive role.
Lahav–Nevo MOOC grant (2022) → Dan Lahav
Named joint grantee
2026-09-19
Joint recipient in the ledger.
Dan Lahav → AI Security Priorities: A Field-Wide Agenda
Co-author
2026-09-19
Co-author.
From the investigation
The people connect the institutions
Dan Lahav, Irregular’s co-founder and CEO, co-founded Impact Focused Education with Sella Nevo. Sella also co-founded Probably Good and remains a director. His current RAND role is founding director of the Center on AI, Security, and Technology. Older partner biographies still describe the Meselson Center role.
Read the research & sources ↗The people connect the institutions
The education funding is specific too. EA Funds’ ledger , which returns CSV, lists one joint $394,968 grant to Dan Lahav and Sella Nevo in the third quarter of 2022 for an online course about pursuing high-impact work. It does not identify the course or receiving organization, so the map keeps the grant attached to its named recipients.
Read the research & sources ↗Early access is part of the business strategy
Dan Lahav explains the company’s approach directly in a Sequoia interview . Working inside frontier labs lets Irregular encounter problems before other businesses do, then prepare solutions for those later customers. Irregular’s privacy policy describes a subscription service receiving data through API calls.
Read the research & sources ↗Further reading
See the connections
Open this part of the network ↗What the connections say
5 relationshipsDan Lahav → Co-founder / CEO → Irregular / Pattern Labs
2026-09-19
Public founder and executive role.
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Dan Lahav → Co-founder → Impact Focused Education
2026-09-19
Co-founded the educational initiative.
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Lahav–Nevo MOOC grant (2022) → Named joint grantee → Dan Lahav
2026-09-19
Joint recipient in the ledger.
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Dan Lahav → Co-author → RAND model-weights security report (2024)
2026-09-19
Named author of the RAND publication.
Read the original source 1
Dan Lahav → Co-author → AI Security Priorities: A Field-Wide Agenda
2026-09-19
Co-author.