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FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Saurabh SrivastavaWarpdrive by Synthetic Minds2× YCFounderSummer 2018B2BSan Francisco, United States7https://x.com/_saurabhShowing 1–1 of 1 founders
Saurabh Srivastava
Founder/CEO·20n
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CEO
Team size2
BatchWinter 2015
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusInactive
StageEarly
BIO
Work on building code capabilities for Nemotron at NVIDIA. Primarily focus is on pre-training, evals and data; some post-training. Previously: * Head of Code Research @ Essential AI (Ashish Vaswani's co) * YC W15 and S18: Code synthesis applied to bio and desktop automations respectively. * PhD / Postdoc: Code synthesis using theorem provers.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
CredentialsPhD
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
2× YC founder
- W1520nInactive · this entry
- S18Warpdrive by Synthetic MindsInactive
COMPANY CONTEXT
220n
InactiveUsing AI to predict biochemistry for manufacturing and therapeutics
Co-foundersChris Anderson