Hemanth Sarabu
FounderFounder at One Robot
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedOne Robot · YC
About
Hemanth Sarabu previously held roles in robot learning and perception at Industrial Next, Symbio Robotics, NASA JPL, and Google, and founded and bootstrapped geospatial AI company Crescer AI to profitability. He is currently working on machine learning and world models for robotics at One Robot.
Founder at One RobotYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Hemanth went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran One Robot's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Hemanth can intro founders to One Robot's investors below.
One Robot's investors · 1
Co-founders at One Robot
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Elton ShonFounder
Experience
- One Robot (YC W26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- Crescer AICo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Crescer AIPartner2023 — 2025
- Industrial Next (YC W22)Head of Artificial Intelligence2024 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
- Industrial Next (YC W22)Senior Machine Learning Engineer2023 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
- GoogleSoftware Engineer2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- Symbio RoboticsSenior Machine Learning Engineer2020 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryVisiting Researcher2019 — 2020
- NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryJPL Graduate Research Fellow2019Pasadena, CA
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyResearch Assistant, Robot Learning Lab2018 — 2019Greater Atlanta Area
- Georgia Tech Research InstituteResearch Assistant2018 — 2019Atlanta
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyResearch Assistant, Fluid Mechanics Research Lab2016 — 2018Atlanta
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyResearch Assistant, Complex Fluids Modelling and Simulation Lab2016 — 2017Atlanta
- NIOSimulation2017San Francisco Bay Area
- Crescer EngineeringFounder2015 — 2016Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- McLaren Automotive LtdSimulation2014 — 2015Woking, United Kingdom
- Mercedes-Benz IndiaDiagnostics Intern2012Hyderabad, India
- Butterfly Edufields Pvt. Ltd.Intern2008 — 2010Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Skills & more
Matlab17Python1C++PyTorchFortran 951C++ Language1LinuxPython (Programming Language)PerceptionImage SegmentationArtificial Intelligence (AI)Object Detection
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OptimizationRoboticsMachine LearningComputer VisionResearch and Development (R&D)ResearchROSOpenCVSensor FusionDeep LearningMobile RoboticsReinforcement LearningLanguages English · Hindi · Telugu
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Hemanth Sarabu?
- Hemanth Sarabu previously held roles in robot learning and perception at Industrial Next, Symbio Robotics, NASA JPL, and Google, and founded and bootstrapped geospatial AI company Crescer AI to profitability. He is currently working on machine learning and world models for robotics at One Robot.
- Where does Hemanth Sarabu work?
- Hemanth Sarabu is Founder of One Robot.
- What companies did Hemanth Sarabu found?
- Hemanth Sarabu founded One Robot.
- Where did Hemanth Sarabu go to school?
- Hemanth Sarabu studied at Y Combinator; Georgia Institute of Technology (Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering); Georgia Institute of Technology (Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering).
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