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Known for these resultsRole33%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 33% of these rows — the rest have no title at all, mostly 2019–2023. Those rows stay in the result and are counted as Unknown, never as No.Bio100%Bio coverage: 100% of these founders have a bio on their YC profile. Every bio-derived facet (ex-company, school, credentials, discipline) is Unknown for the rest.Ex-company100%Ex-company is matched from bios with employment context (ex-, formerly, worked at). 100% of these rows have at least one match.School0%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 0% of these rows have at least one match.
- Shikhar Bhushan@shikhrrFounder/CEO · s2.devF25B2B · San Francisco
- Sriman Gaddam@SrimanGaddamFounder/CTO · Sennu AIW25B2B · San Francisco
- Alok Nikhil@aloknnikhilFounder · OmnistrateW23B2B · San Francisco
- Kamal GuptaFounder · OmnistrateW23B2B · San Francisco
- Chengjun YuanFounder · SugerW23B2B · San Francisco
- Aaditya Talwai@AadityaTalwaiFounder · Lariat DataS21B2B · New York
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Shikhar Bhushans2.devFounder/CEOFall 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States5https://x.com/shikhrrSriman GaddamSennu AIFounder/CTOWinter 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/SrimanGaddamAlok NikhilOmnistrateFounderWinter 2023B2BSan Francisco, United States15https://x.com/aloknnikhilKamal GuptaOmnistrateFounderWinter 2023B2BSan Francisco, United States15—Chengjun YuanSugerFounderWinter 2023B2BSan Francisco, United States50—Aaditya TalwaiLariat DataFounderSummer 2021B2BNew York, United States3https://x.com/AadityaTalwai
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Alok Nikhil
Founder·Omnistrate
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder· not in title
Team size15
BatchWinter 2023
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Alok comes with deep technical expertise in Serverless, Networking, Performance on the Cloud. He was the original technical author of Aurora Serverless, which revolutionized the data systems space. Within the first year of its introduction, ~50% of hundreds of thousands of Aurora DBs created were on Aurora Serverless. He also scaled networking (packets-per-second) on AWS by 10-15x during his tenure at Cisco, scaled Confluent Cloud by 5x from 4GBps to 20GBps, and Kafka Cloud latencies by 10x.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
Disciplinenot detectedKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
Omnistrate
Transform any software to multi-cloud SaaS in minutes not years
Co-foundersKamal Gupta
