Aria Vikram
FounderFounder at Conviction
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedConviction · YC
About
Aria Vikram is the co-founder and CEO of Parachute. She previously worked as an NLP researcher at Columbia and deployed AI chatbots for clinical use at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Founder at ConvictionYC S25
Intro paths
YC
Aria went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Conviction's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Aria can intro founders to Conviction's investors below.
Conviction's investors · 4
Co-founders at Conviction
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Tony YaminCo-Founder & CTO
Experience
- Parachute (YC S25)Co-Founder and CEOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Columbia UniversityResearcher2022 — 2024New York, United States
- Kitware Inc.Research And Development Intern2023North Carolina, United States
- StethoDocFounder2020 — 2022
- Research Science Institute (RSI)Research Intern at RSI - collaboratively sponsored by CEE and MIT2021
- Open RobertaOpen Source Developer2019 — 2020
Skills & more
Open-Source Software1Computer Vision1Quantum Computing1ResearchEngineeringMachine LearningAudio EngineeringStatisticsAlgorithmsData StructuresGitGitHub
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PyTorchMATLABJavaC++Linear AlgebraDigital Signal ProcessingProbabilityMultivariable CalculusOpenCVAudacityGNU OctaveLanguages English · French · Hindi · Kannada
- General Chemistry — Columbia University
- University Writing — Columbia University
- The Art of Engineering — Columbia University
- Accelerated Physics — Columbia University
- Multivariable Calculus for Scientists and Engineers — Columbia University
- Data Structures in Java — Columbia University
- Advanced Programming — Columbia University
- Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers — EdX
- Build Better Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN s) — Coursera
- Apply Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by DeepLearning.AI — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Aria Vikram?
- Aria Vikram is the co-founder and CEO of Parachute. She previously worked as an NLP researcher at Columbia and deployed AI chatbots for clinical use at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
- Where does Aria Vikram work?
- Aria Vikram is Founder of Conviction.
- What companies did Aria Vikram found?
- Aria Vikram founded Conviction.
- Where did Aria Vikram go to school?
- Aria Vikram studied at Y Combinator; Columbia Engineering (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); National Public School (High School Diploma, Science Stream - PCMC).
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