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Aditya Lahiri

Founder

Founder at Openbenchmarks

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedOpenbenchmarks · YC

About

Aditya Lahiri is the co-founder of OpenFunnel, which develops AI agents for sales prospecting. He previously worked on AI applications in real estate technology, conducted graduate research on large multimodal model generation, and contributed to machine learning infrastructure at American Express's AI Labs.

Founder at OpenbenchmarksYC F24

Intro paths

YC

Aditya went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

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

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In turn, Aditya can intro founders to Openbenchmarks's investors below.

Openbenchmarks's investors · 3

Decacorn CapitalSingapore · $300K – $600K checksTranspose Platform ManagementHoustonY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Openbenchmarks

FSFenil Suchak
Fenil SuchakFounder

Experience

  1. Openbenchmarks (YC F24)Co-Founder & CTOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. OpenFunnelCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  3. Forbes Technology CouncilOfficial Membercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  4. SDxMember2024
  5. AppFolio, Inc.Software Engineer, Machine Learning2023 — 2024San Diego, California, United States
  6. Tribe AIMember2023 — 2024
  7. On DeckFellow at ODF 222024
  8. UC San DiegoGraduate Teaching Assistant2022 — 2023San Diego, California, United States
  9. AppFolio, Inc.Software Engineer Intern2022San Diego, California, United States
  10. UC San DiegoGraduate Research Assistant2022San Diego, California, United States
  11. UC San DiegoGraduate Teaching Assistant2021 — 2022San Diego, California, United States
  12. American ExpressResearch Engineer2020 — 2021Bangalore
  13. American ExpressResearch Intern, AI Labs2019Bangalore

Skills & more

Public Speaking8Management2Team Management2Leadership2Python (Programming Language)21XGBoost1Ruby on RailsSQLPython16C++3C (Programming Language)1Machine Learning
+12 moreData AnalysisResearch and Development (R&D)Responsible AIComputer VisionCausal InferenceShell ScriptingLarge Language Models (LLM)Software DevelopmentCost PlanningGenerative AIDeep LearningAlgorithms

Languages English · Hindi

From Aditya's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Aditya Lahiri?
Aditya Lahiri is the co-founder of OpenFunnel, which develops AI agents for sales prospecting. He previously worked on AI applications in real estate technology, conducted graduate research on large multimodal model generation, and contributed to machine learning infrastructure at American Express's AI Labs.
Where does Aditya Lahiri work?
Aditya Lahiri is Founder of Openbenchmarks.
What companies did Aditya Lahiri found?
Aditya Lahiri founded Openbenchmarks.
Where did Aditya Lahiri go to school?
Aditya Lahiri studied at Y Combinator; UC San Diego (Master's degree, Computer Science); Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus (Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science).

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Fenil SuchakFounder at OpenFunnel

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