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Known for these resultsRole64%Role is parsed from founder titles in yc.db. Known for 64% 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-company27%Ex-company is matched from bios with employment context (ex-, formerly, worked at). 27% of these rows have at least one match.School36%School is matched from bios, case-sensitive for acronyms. 36% of these rows have at least one match.
- Kartik Sawhney@kartiks22Founder/CEO · Samora AIW26B2B
- Shakul Raj SonkerFounder/COO · Samora AIW26B2B
- Vineeth KumarFounder/CTO · Samora AIW26B2B
- Bill WangFounder/CTO · Besimple AIX25B2B · San Francisco
- Yi ZhongFounder/CEO · Besimple AIX25B2B · San Francisco
- Aaksha Meghawat@aakshamFounder/CTO · KashikoiX25B2B · San Francisco
- Ende ShenFounder/CTO · TegoreX25Education · San Francisco
- James ThomasFounder · DialectS22B2B · San Francisco
- Tejas SundaresanFounder · DialectS22B2B · San Francisco
- Tony Ginart@tginartFounder · DialectS22B2B · San Francisco
- Chris Osborn@aliquotchrisFounder · DialectS20B2B · New York
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Kartik SawhneySamora AIFounder/CEOWinter 2026B2BUnknown8https://x.com/kartiks22Shakul Raj SonkerSamora AIFounder/COOWinter 2026B2BUnknown8—Vineeth KumarSamora AIFounder/CTOWinter 2026B2BUnknown8—Bill WangBesimple AIFounder/CTOSpring 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States6—Yi ZhongBesimple AIFounder/CEOSpring 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States6—Aaksha MeghawatKashikoiFounder/CTOSpring 2025B2BSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/aakshamEnde ShenTegoreFounder/CTOSpring 2025EducationSan Francisco, United States1—James ThomasDialectFounderSummer 2022B2BSan Francisco, United States3—Tejas SundaresanDialectFounderSummer 2022B2BSan Francisco, United States3—Tony GinartDialectFounderSummer 2022B2BSan Francisco, United States3https://x.com/tginartChris OsbornDialectFounderSummer 2020B2BNew York, United States8https://x.com/aliquotchris
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Aaksha Meghawat
Founder/CTO·Kashikoi
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CTO
Team size2
BatchSpring 2025
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Founder, Kashikoi. Aaksha led the Simulation & Evaluation stack at Moveworks(ServiceNow) shipping 250+ customized enterprise ready agents to Fortune 500 and federal agencies. Aaksha has done award winning NSF sponsored research in Transformers at CMU (long before OpenAI made them cool). She shipped edge speech recognition models on 1bn+ iPhones (for the most esoteric dialects you can think of) at Apple. The innovation behind this was nominated for a Best Paper at Interspeech 2021.
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
KashikoiSimulation Engine for Benchmarking AI Products
