About
Hrishi Olickel is the founder and CEO of Southbridge.ai, which builds tools for first-mile data problems using large language models and maintains an open-source long-horizon agent runtime called Hankweave. He previously spent five years as co-founder and CTO of Greywing (YC W21), where he developed early production AI agents including SeaGPT and WalkingRAG, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2023 for enterprise technology. He also co-authored Oyente, a smart-contract analyzer presented at ACM CCS 2016, and has published across chemistry, signal correction, electronic circuits, and human-computer interfaces.
CTO at GreywingYC W21
Intro paths
Hrishi went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Hrishi can intro founders to Greywing's investors below.
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Co-founders at Greywing
Experience
- SouthbridgeAIFounder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentSingapore
- GreywingCo-founder & CTO2019 — 2024Singapore
- LMB Insurance BrokerChief Technology Officer2018Thiruvananthapuram Area, India
- Anquan CapitalDeveloper2016Singapore
- National GeographicSoftware Lead - Singapore Team2016Singapore
- Kulicke & SoffaDream Engineer2015Singapore
- Quark CyberneticsEmbedded Software Developer2010 — 2011Ernakulam, Kerala, India
Skills & more
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Embedded CHTMLPHPEmbedded SystemsEmbedded SoftwareMicrosoft WordTeamworkPublic SpeakingJavaMicrosoft PowerPointLanguages English · French · Hindi · Korean · Malayalam · Sanskrit · Tamil
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Hrishi Olickel?
- Hrishi Olickel is the founder and CEO of Southbridge.ai, which builds tools for first-mile data problems using large language models and maintains an open-source long-horizon agent runtime called Hankweave. He previously spent five years as co-founder and CTO of Greywing (YC W21), where he developed early production AI agents including SeaGPT and WalkingRAG, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2023 for enterprise technology. He also co-authored Oyente, a smart-contract analyzer presented at ACM CCS 2016, and has published across chemistry, signal correction, electronic circuits, and human-computer interfaces.
- Where does Hrishi Olickel work?
- Hrishi Olickel is CTO of Greywing.
- What companies did Hrishi Olickel found?
- Hrishi Olickel founded Greywing.
- Where did Hrishi Olickel go to school?
- Hrishi Olickel studied at Yale-NUS College (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science); Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (International Baccalaureate Diploma).
Same school
Also attended Yale-NUS College11
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Also attended Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)23
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Shared employers
Also worked at National Geographic16
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