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Advaith Sridhar

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Founder at Discovered Materials

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedDiscovered Materials · YC

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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 MaterialsYC X26

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

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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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Discovered Materials's investors · 15

CHEPSTOW CAPITAL GmbHFJ LabsNew York · $100K – $3M checksForward Future CapitalGaingelsNew York · $200K – $500K checksLightspeed India PartnersTrianon · since 2026Lightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1M – $5M checksMetsu CapitalMyAsiaVCSeattleOurCrowdJerusalemPeak XV PartnersBengaluru · $100K – $10M checksRadiant Venture CapitalHong KongRobinhoodMenlo ParkSync.VCTranspose Platform ManagementSan FranciscoY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Discovered Materials

ARAkash Ramdas
Akash RamdasFounder

Experience

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

Skills & more

Deep LearningMachine LearningComputer VisionProduct ManagementFunnel OptimizationWorkflow DesignPublic Speaking3Matlab3Microsoft Office8C++4C4Leadership7
+1 moreMicrosoft Word
  • Machine Learning — Coursera Course Certificates

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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).

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