Where does Abhisheik Sharma work?

Abhisheik Sharma is Co-Founder & CTO of Protent.

What companies did Abhisheik Sharma found?

Abhisheik Sharma founded Protent.

Where did Abhisheik Sharma go to school?

Abhisheik Sharma studied at Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

Abhisheik Sharma

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Protent

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedProtent · YC

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299 people in our graph share verified history with Abhisheik — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

HemamunlockedAbhisheik: together at Stealth Startup (2024)

×4Abhisheik: together at Stealth Startup

×5Abhisheik: together at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

×2Abhisheik: together at VeriSign

About

Abhisheik Sharma previously conducted research in natural language processing and sentiment analysis. He is now developing video intelligence software for real-time threat detection.

Co-Founder & CTO at Protent YC W26

Intro paths

Abhisheik went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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

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In turn, Abhisheik can intro founders to Protent's investors below.

Protent's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Protent

Srihan BalajiCo-Founder

Experience

Protent (YC W26)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, CA
UNC Department of Computer ScienceNLP Researcher2024 — 2025
VERISIGNAI/ML Intern2025
School of Neuroscience at Virginia TechML Researcher2025
Stealth StartupFounding Engineer2024
Samson PropertiesAI Engineering Intern2023

Frequently asked questions

Who is Abhisheik Sharma?: Abhisheik Sharma previously conducted research in natural language processing and sentiment analysis. He is now developing video intelligence software for real-time threat detection.
Where does Abhisheik Sharma work?: Abhisheik Sharma is Co-Founder & CTO of Protent.
What companies did Abhisheik Sharma found?: Abhisheik Sharma founded Protent.
Where did Abhisheik Sharma go to school?: Abhisheik Sharma studied at Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

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About

Co-Founder & CTO at ProtentYC W26

Intro paths

Protent's investors · 1

Co-founders at Protent

Experience

Frequently asked questions

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia10,230

Georgia Institute of Technology mafia365

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology mafia52

VeriSign mafia24

Same school

Also attended Georgia Institute of Technology706

Also attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology82

Shared employers

Also worked at VERISIGN64

Also worked at Stealth Startup485

Co-Founder & CTO at Protent YC W26