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Goutham Buchi

Founder

Founder/CTO at Sycamore

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedSycamore Β· YC

About

Goutham Buchi is a software engineer who previously held senior engineering roles at Coinbase and served as CTO at AngelList. He was an early employee at Coursera and is now building Sycamore, which was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch.

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gouthamb.eth @bgoutham

Seeing the AWS moment for agents playing out in real time. Before: call an LLM / Model Now/future: Models are becoming interchangeable. The differentiation is shifting to orchestration + infrastructure. agents: define capabilities, tools, persona environments: control

Mar 19, 2026 Β· β™₯ 3

gouthamb.eth @bgoutham

I thought this was a really interesting stat from @AravSrinivas just now In enterprise deployments, more than 50% of users are actively choosing different models instead of sticking to a default. its accelerates a trend thats already emerging at a per-dev basis, specililized https://t.co/1Sr6LTO0Ji

Mar 16, 2026 Β· β™₯ 2

gouthamb.eth @bgoutham

Source: https://t.co/8T4aLR1Vmm

Mar 14, 2026

Founder/CTO at SycamoreYC W17

Intro paths

YC

Goutham went through Y Combinator (Winter 2017) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Goutham can intro founders to Sycamore's investors below.

Sycamore's investors Β· 2

Lightspeed Venture PartnersY Combinator

Co-founders at Sycamore

SSSteven Syverud
Steven SyverudFounder/CEO

Experience

  1. Beacon SoftwareCTOcurrent2026 β€” present
  2. AngelListCTO2025 β€” 2026
  3. CoinbaseSenior Director of Engineering2018 β€” 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  4. MySycamore - YC W17Co-Founder & CEO2016 β€” 2018
  5. CourseraEngineering Lead - Growth2014 β€” 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  6. Bloomberg LPEngineering Manager2009 β€” 2014New York City Metropolitan Area
  7. Bloomberg LPSoftware Engineer2007 β€” 2009London Area, United Kingdom
  8. Bloomberg LPIntern2006New York City Metropolitan Area

Education

  1. Indian Institute of Technology, MadrasB.Tech, Computer Science2003 β€” 2007

Skills & more

Engineering Management1Director level1Bloomberg23Fixed Income11Management Consulting5FX Options6Algorithms14Training1Data Structures2Trading Systems9Valuation4Business Analysis5
+12 moreTeam LeadershipDerivativesAnalyticsNonprofitsData AnalysisElectronic TradingMultithreadingSoftware EngineeringC++JavaScriptPythonSTL

Languages Japanese (from travels), German (undergrad courses)

From Goutham's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Indian Institute of Technology, Madras74

Sundeep PeechuGeneral Partner at Felicis VenturesRajesh SwaminathanInvestor at Khosla VenturesAparnaAdvisor at NewBuild.VCParthaAdvisor at NewBuild.VCIlanInvestor at Eudemian VenturesRaghuInvestor at Eudemian Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Beacon Software2

Divya GuptaPartner at Sequoia CapitalTim JonesFounder/CTO at Cribspot

Also worked at AngelList59

Wesley ChanInvestor at Felicis VenturesHelen MinEarly-stage investor and marketing advisor to startupsMehul KumarInvestor at FJ LabsBrendan BakerPartner at Rackhouse Venture Management LpLee JacobsEntrepreneur, investor, and cofounder of EdelweissMatt MocharyInvestor at Fortius Ventures

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Also worked at Coinbase92

Balaji SrinivasanAngel investor and founder of The Network SchoolFred EhrsamCo-founder and Senior Advisor at Paradigm; founder of NudgeJanet WolpertInvestor at Index VenturesKatrina PagliaChief Legal Officer at Pantera CapitalSimon CantInvestor at Reinventure GroupDanny GilliganInvestor at Reinventure Group

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Also worked at Coursera20

Pierre-Eric LeiboviciInvestor at DaphniJessica NealOperating Partner at TCVSourabh BajajEngineering Advisor at Modern TechnicalCarmen ChangPartner, Head of Asia at New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Rob HutterFounder, Managing Partner at Learn CapitalAndrew NgManaging General Partner at AI Fund

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