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Hrishi Olickel

Founder

CTO at Greywing · Co-founder at Southbridge

Singapore

FoundedGreywing · YCSouthbridge

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Toby CoppelunlockedHrishi: together at Entrepreneur First (2019)
×6Hrishi: together at Entrepreneur First
×2Hrishi: together at National Geographic
×2Hrishi: together at Yale-NUS College

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

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YC

Hrishi went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Greywing's investors · 6

Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checks · since 2021FlexportSan Francisco · $2.5M – $20M checks · since 2021Motion Ventures$250K – $10M checks · since 2021Signal VenturesSingapore · since 2021Transmedia CapitalSan Francisco · $5M checks · since 2021Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021

Co-founders at Greywing

NCNick Clarke
Nick ClarkeCEO

Co-founder at Southbridge

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Southbridge's investors · 2

Brainstorm VenturesSan FranciscoGeneral PartnershipSan Francisco · $1M – $30M checks

Co-founders at Southbridge

MC
Minu ChoiCo-founder

Experience

  1. SouthbridgeAIFounder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentSingapore
  2. GreywingCo-founder & CTO2019 — 2024Singapore
  3. LMB Insurance BrokerChief Technology Officer2018Thiruvananthapuram Area, India
  4. Anquan CapitalDeveloper2016Singapore
  5. National GeographicSoftware Lead - Singapore Team2016Singapore
  6. Kulicke & SoffaDream Engineer2015Singapore
  7. Quark CyberneticsEmbedded Software Developer2010 — 2011Ernakulam, Kerala, India

Skills & more

Information RetrievalTypeScriptDistributed SystemsLarge Language Models (LLM)Atmel AVR1Android Development5ARM3Research5AI AgentsJavaScript6C++10C12
+10 moreEmbedded CHTMLPHPEmbedded SystemsEmbedded SoftwareMicrosoft WordTeamworkPublic SpeakingJavaMicrosoft PowerPoint

Languages 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 and Co-founder at Southbridge.
What companies did Hrishi Olickel found?
Hrishi Olickel founded Greywing, Southbridge.
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).

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