Where does Advaith Sridhar work?

Advaith Sridhar is Founder of Discovered Materials.

What companies did Advaith Sridhar found?

Advaith Sridhar founded Discovered Materials.

Where did Advaith Sridhar go to school?

Advaith Sridhar studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation); Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor's of Technology, Electrical Engineering); National Public School Indiranagar (CBSE AISSCE (Class 12), Physics).

Advaith Sridhar

Founder

Founder at Discovered Materials

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedDiscovered Materials · YC

About

Advaith Sridhar is a research engineer who previously worked at Luma Labs and studied at Carnegie Mellon University and IIT Madras. He is now building AI tools for materials discovery.

Founder at Discovered Materials YC X26

Intro paths

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

Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Discovered Materials's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Advaith can intro founders to Discovered Materials's investors below.

Discovered Materials's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Discovered Materials

Akash RamdasFounder

Experience

Discovered MaterialsCo-Foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Luma AIResearch Engineer2026San Francisco Bay Area
Persona AI (acquired by Luma)Founding AI Engineer2024 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
Carnegie Mellon UniversityTeaching Assistant2023Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
C3 AIData Science Intern2023Redwood City, California, United States
AI4BharatProject Lead2019 — 2022
Turing.comProduct Manager2021 — 2022
FlipkartProduct Manager2021India
FlipkartAssociate Product Manager - 22020 — 2021Bengaluru Area, India
FlipkartAssociate Product Manager - 12019 — 2020
ITC LimitedKITES Intern2018Guntur Area, India
Samsung ElectronicsSummer Intern, Automatic Speech Recognition2017Bengaluru Area, India

Skills & more

Deep LearningMachine LearningComputer VisionProduct ManagementFunnel OptimizationWorkflow DesignPublic Speaking3Matlab3Microsoft Office8C++4C4Leadership7

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Machine Learning — Coursera Course Certificates

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Advaith Sridhar?: Advaith Sridhar is a research engineer who previously worked at Luma Labs and studied at Carnegie Mellon University and IIT Madras. He is now building AI tools for materials discovery.
Where does Advaith Sridhar work?: Advaith Sridhar is Founder of Discovered Materials.
What companies did Advaith Sridhar found?: Advaith Sridhar founded Discovered Materials.
Where did Advaith Sridhar go to school?: Advaith Sridhar studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation); Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Bachelor's of Technology, Electrical Engineering); National Public School Indiranagar (CBSE AISSCE (Class 12), Physics).