Hackerearth
Founded 2012 · 520 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Find your way into Hackerearth
125 people in our graph share verified history with the Hackerearth team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
Dan Scheinmanunlockedknows Sachin Gupta · together at Breakout (overlapped)
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HackerEarth offers an AI Practice Agent, a training tool that lets developers practice mock interviews and coding problems while receiving automated feedback from AI models. The product is aimed at developers looking to improve interview readiness and problem-solving skills.
Founders & leadership
Hackerearth was founded in 2012 by Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash.
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Sachin GuptainCo-founder · Executive ChairmanSachin Gupta interned at Microsoft and worked at Google before founding HackerEarth, which he scaled to over $10M in ARR before exiting in 2024. He is now founder of Breakout, an AI platform that personalizes website visitor experiences for B2B sales.
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Vivek Prakashin𝕏Co-founder & CTO2012–2020Vivek Prakash founded HackerEarth, a coding competition and hackathon platform for software engineers and computer science students, and currently builds Codingal, an online computer science school for K-12 students.
Investors · 2
Founder mafia
3 people who came through Hackerearth went on to found or lead other companies.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Hackerearth do?
- HackerEarth offers an AI Practice Agent, a training tool that lets developers practice mock interviews and coding problems while receiving automated feedback from AI models. The product is aimed at developers looking to improve interview readiness and problem-solving skills.
- Who founded Hackerearth?
- Hackerearth was founded by Sachin Gupta, Vivek Prakash in 2012.
- Who are Hackerearth's investors?
- Hackerearth's investors include 500 Global, Prime Venture Partners.