About
Ayantika Dey studied computer science at IIT and worked as an early engineer at Rippling before founding Merlin AI, which addresses challenges in the construction industry.
Founder at Merlin AIYC S24
Intro paths
YC
Ayantika went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Merlin AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ayantika can intro founders to Merlin AI's investors below.
Merlin AI's investors · 2
Co-founders at Merlin AI
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Sneha KumariFounder
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Kumar SiddharthaFounder
Experience
- DeelTeam Leadcurrent2025 — present
- Merlin AICTO/Cofounder2023 — 2025
- Cure.FitSoftware Engineer2020 — 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- RipplingSoftware Engineer2018 — 2020Bengaluru Area, India
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer2016 — 2018Hyderabad Area, India
- MicrosoftSummer Intern2015Hyderabad Area, India
Education
- IIT GuwahatiBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering2012 — 2016
Skills & more
C++4C3HTML5JavaScript2SQL3Microsoft Office1Linux2MySQL3WindowsPHP2CSS1Visual Basic1
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ProgrammingAlgorithmsFrom Ayantika's professional profile.
Shared employers
Also worked at Deel23
Yasmin RazaviInvestor at Spark CapitalJeannette zu FürstenbergPresident & Managing Director at General CatalystAndy HarrisonGeneral Partner, CEO at S32Sam EdenInvestor at Square Peg CapitalRyan FreemanInvestor at Ripple VenturesJasper MasemannPartner at Cherry Ventures
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Also worked at Merlin AI2
Also worked at Cure.Fit4
Also worked at Rippling27
Mamoon HamidPartner at Kleiner PerkinsAlex NicholsInvestor at CapitalGMelike Abacioglu GunesVP of Marketing at Asymmetric Capital PartnersGeoff LewisFounder & Managing Partner at BedrockIlya FushmanPartner at KPCBAnoushka VaswaniPartner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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