About
Chetan Dalal previously founded Memer, which was acquired by ShareChat, and held roles at Google, Goldman Sachs, and Nexus Venture Partners. He currently leads Weekday, a candidate search platform.
Chetan Dalal @chetan_dalal
@shashank_kr https://t.co/SHjWEGkgcu
Jul 30, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Chetan Dalal @chetan_dalal
Got to listen to @shashank_kr, the founder of Razorpay, talk about India/US opportunities and the impact of AI. Most of the room was from India, and it was a different vibe for me. No small talk to get through. I could ask someone straight up how they cracked their early
Jul 30, 2026 Β· β₯ 12 Β· β 5
Chetan Dalal @chetan_dalal
An RL agent drove this boat to a higher score than human players, without ever finishing the race. I recently moved to Mountain View from India to build our AI data labs business. The biggest lesson from this work so far - nailing accuracy is very hard because models are very https://t.co/1c8OEEmDT9
Jul 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 10 Β· β 6
Founder at WeekdayYC W21
Intro paths
Chetan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Weekday's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Chetan can intro founders to Weekday's investors below.
Weekday's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Weekday
Experience
- WeekdayCo-Foundercurrent2020 β presentMountain View, California, United States
- ShareChatProduct Manager 22020Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- MemerCo-Founder2018 β 2020Greater Bengaluru Area
- Goldman SachsQuantitative Strategist2017 β 2018Bengaluru Area, India
- Nexus Venture PartnersInvestment Analyst2015 β 2016Mumbai Metropolitan Region
- Goldman SachsCore Quant Strat Intern2014Bangalore
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2013Hyderabad Area, India
- NoneInterviewing and Writing2012
Education
- Indian Institute of Technology, KanpurBachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science and Engineering2011 β 2015
- St. Paul School, UdaipurCBSE 10th Board
- B.N. School, UdaipurCBSE 12th Board
Skills & more
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EditorialNon-fictionFictionMathematicsProbabilityData MiningAlgorithm DesignStart-up ConsultingWritingStart-upsHTMLCLanguages English Β· Hindi
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects β Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization β Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning β Coursera
- Machine Learning β Coursera
From Chetan's professional profile.
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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Goldman Sachs mafia180
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur mafia27
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Nexus Venture Partners mafia3
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Same school
Also attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur82
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Shared employers
Also worked at Weekday1
Also worked at ShareChat6
Also worked at Memer1
Also worked at Goldman Sachs1,429
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