Where does Aaksha Meghawat work?

Aaksha Meghawat is Founder of Kashikoi.

What companies did Aaksha Meghawat found?

Aaksha Meghawat founded Kashikoi.

Where did Aaksha Meghawat go to school?

Aaksha Meghawat studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Masters, Language Technologies Institute); Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science, Masters in Mathematics); Stanford Continuing Studies (European Philosophy, Philosophy).

Aaksha Meghawat

Founder

Founder at Kashikoi

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedKashikoi · YC

About

Aaksha Meghawat led the Simulation & Evaluation stack at Moveworks, which was acquired by ServiceNow, where she worked on enterprise AI agents. She previously conducted NSF-sponsored research on transformers at Carnegie Mellon University and developed speech recognition models at Apple that shipped on over 1 billion devices.

Founder at Kashikoi YC X25

Intro paths

Aaksha went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Kashikoi's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Aaksha can intro founders to Kashikoi's investors below.

Kashikoi's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Experience

Kashikoi (YC)Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
MoveworksStaff Machine Learning Engineer2022 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
AppleSenior Machine Learning Engineer2017 — 2022Cupertino, California, United States
Carnegie Mellon UniversityMachine Learning Research2015 — 2017Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Sutherland Global ServicesData Scientist, Manager, Analytics2014 — 2015Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Opera SolutionsSoftware Specialist2013 — 2014New Delhi, Delhi, India
Morgan StanleyTechnology Analyst (Intern)2013Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
London Business SchoolResearch Assistant2012London, England, United Kingdom
Brevan HowardResearch Intern2011New York, United States
Mentored-ResearchIntern- Equity Research2011
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS PilaniCoordinator, Out-of-Box Conference2011BITS Pilani
Birla Institute of Technology and Science PilaniCaptain, Athletics Team2011BITS Pilani
Birla Institute of Technology and Science PilaniProfessional Assistant, Computer Programming II2010BITS Pilani
WATConsult - Social Media AgencyBlogger, Social Media2010Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Trusted Shares and InvestmentsSoftware Programmer (Intern)2009 — 2010Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Skills & more

Team Leadership3ManagementNatural Language Processing (NLP)6Deep Learning5Research21Machine Learning6Programming13Event Management5Data Analysis4Analytics5Entrepreneurship3Algorithms2

+12 more

Business AnalysisNatural Language ProcessingProject ManagementCC++PythonSQLJavaMatlabRC (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)

Grade 1 Music (Guitar) with Distinction — Trinity College London
R Programming — Coursera
The Data Scientist’s Toolbox — Coursera
Machine Learning — Coursera

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Aaksha Meghawat?: Aaksha Meghawat led the Simulation & Evaluation stack at Moveworks, which was acquired by ServiceNow, where she worked on enterprise AI agents. She previously conducted NSF-sponsored research on transformers at Carnegie Mellon University and developed speech recognition models at Apple that shipped on over 1 billion devices.
Where does Aaksha Meghawat work?: Aaksha Meghawat is Founder of Kashikoi.
What companies did Aaksha Meghawat found?: Aaksha Meghawat founded Kashikoi.
Where did Aaksha Meghawat go to school?: Aaksha Meghawat studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Masters, Language Technologies Institute); Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science, Masters in Mathematics); Stanford Continuing Studies (European Philosophy, Philosophy).