Dheera Venkatraman
FounderFounder/CTO at Robby Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedRobby Technologies · YC
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About
Founder and CTO of Robby Technologies, which develops autonomous delivery robots. Venkatraman has expertise in embodied AI, generative AI, robotics, perception, and machine learning.
Founder/CTO at Robby TechnologiesYC S16
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Rui LiFounder/CEO
Experience
- WayvePrincipal Engineercurrent2025 — present
- Stealth AI StartupStartup exploration2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- AmazonPrincipal Applied Scientist2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- Freedom RoboticsRobotics Software Engineer2020 — 2022
- Robby TechnologiesCo-Founder and CTO2016 — 2020Palo Alto, CA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Research Assistant2008 — 2015Cambridge, MA, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Ashdown House Executive Committee2008 — 2010
- MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (MIT-CHIEF)Technology Director / Board Member / Founding Team Member2011 — 2013Cambridge, MA, USA
- Tzu Chi FoundationVolunteer & Tzu Ching Officer2009 — 2013
- MIT Sustainability SummitTechnology/Marketing Director2008 — 2013Cambridge, MA, USA
- ETH Zürich, SwitzerlandResearch Intern2007
- TRUMPF-Laser GmbH + Co. KG, Schramberg, GermanyResearch Intern2005
- A-STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, SingaporeResearch Intern2004
Skills & more
Text-to-Image GenerationAsian BusinessThermal ImagingDigital ImagingImaging ScienceSoftware DevelopmentComputer ScienceArtificial Neural NetworksDeep LearningNonlinear OpticsComputer VisionHardware
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Project ManagementWeb Application DevelopmentInfrastructureLarge Language Models (LLM)RoboticsMachine Learning AlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentGraphic DesignLinux System AdministrationMachine LearningPyTorchPythonLanguages Chinese · English · German · Python
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- Who is Dheera Venkatraman?
- Founder and CTO of Robby Technologies, which develops autonomous delivery robots. Venkatraman has expertise in embodied AI, generative AI, robotics, perception, and machine learning.
- Where does Dheera Venkatraman work?
- Dheera Venkatraman is Founder/CTO of Robby Technologies.
- What companies did Dheera Venkatraman found?
- Dheera Venkatraman founded Robby Technologies.
- Where did Dheera Venkatraman go to school?
- Dheera Venkatraman studied at Y Combinator (S16 batch); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering).
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Wayve mafia3
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Ryan SheaCo-founder of Blockstack (Stacks)Suhail DoshiFounder of Mixpanel; founder of ParticleArhaan A.Deeptech Fellow at Clear VenturesAkshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorChris GoldaGeneral Partner at Y Combinator
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Shared employers
Also worked at Wayve10
Seth WinterrothPartner and Head of Policy at Eclipse VenturesSuranga ChandratillakePartner at Balderton CapitalAlex BangashManaging Director and General Partner at Transpose Platform ManagementFrancisco VargasPrincipal at Teachers' Venture GrowthZach Warder GabaldonChief Innovation Officer at Founder Catalyst (Ministry of Awesome)Alex KendallCo-founder & CEO of Wayve
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Apoorva MehtaFounder of Instacart; founder of Cloud Health SystemsBinny BansalCo-founder of Flipkart; co-founder of PhonePe and OppDoorBrad PorterFounder & CEO of Collaborative RoboticsJane MooneyCo-founder & VP, Strategy and Finance at Collaborative RoboticsNick FrosstCo-founder of CohereViswa SankaranarayananVenture Partner at Monta Vista Capital
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