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).

Dheera Venkatraman

Founder

Founder/CTO at Robby Technologies

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedRobby Technologies · YC

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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 Technologies YC S16

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Amino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M checks Frees FundShanghai · $425K – $35M checks Sinovation VenturesBeijing · $1M – $110M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2016 Yunqi PartnersShanghai · $2.1M – $60M checks

Co-founders at Robby Technologies

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 LearningPyTorchPython

Languages 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).