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Known for these resultsRole80%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 80% 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-company20%Ex-company is matched from bios with employment context (ex-, formerly, worked at). 20% of these rows have at least one match.School60%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 60% of these rows have at least one match.
- Shashij Gupta@ShashijguptaFounder/CEO · CekuraF24B2B · San Francisco
- Sidhant Kabra@kabra_sidhantFounder · CekuraF24B2B · San Francisco
- Tarush Agarwal@tarush_agarwal_Founder/CTO · CekuraF24B2B · San Francisco
- Blake Shao@rmptmlkFounder/CPO · StewdioF24Consumer · New York
- Jialiang (JZ) Zhou@jz2lettersFounder/CEO · StewdioF24Consumer · New York
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Shashij GuptaCekuraFounder/CEOFall 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States15https://x.com/ShashijguptaSidhant KabraCekuraFounderFall 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States15https://x.com/kabra_sidhantTarush AgarwalCekuraFounder/CTOFall 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States15https://x.com/tarush_agarwal_Blake ShaoStewdioFounder/CPOFall 2024ConsumerNew York, United States2https://x.com/rmptmlkJialiang (JZ) ZhouStewdioFounder/CEOFall 2024ConsumerNew York, United States2https://x.com/jz2letters
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Shashij Gupta
Founder/CEO·Cekura
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CEO
Team size15
BatchFall 2024
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Shashij is the Co-Founder & CTO @ Cekura. Previously Shashij worked as a quantitative researcher in a trading firm searching for complex alphas. Shashij has also researched in NLP at Google Research and has a first author paper on testing transformers with 50+ citations from his work at ETH Zurich. He has also studied computer science at IIT Bombay.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
Cekura
Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability
