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Kabir Nagrecha

Founder

Chief Executive Officer at Tessera Labs

San Jose, California, United States

FoundedTessera Labs

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Tim HaleyunlockedKabir: together at Netflix (2022–2024)
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About

Kabir Nagrecha is the CEO and co-founder of Tessera Labs. He previously worked as a research scientist on Meta's model-system co-design team, focusing on performance optimization for large-scale deep learning in ads and LLaMA, and earlier worked on LLMs and diffusion models for studio and recommendation systems at Netflix. He completed his Ph.D. at UC San Diego at age 20, advised by Arun Kumar and Hao Zhang, developing systems for more efficient and scalable deep learning.

Chief Executive Officer at Tessera Labs

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Tessera Labs's investors · 5

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026Foundation CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2026Myriad Venture Partnerssince 2026Osage University PartnersBala Cynwyd · since 2026OUP (Osage University Partners)Bala Cynwyd · $1M – $20M checks

Experience

  1. Tessera LabsChief Executive Officercurrent2024 — presentSan Jose, California, United States
  2. MetaResearch Scientist2024Menlo Park, California, United States
  3. NetflixGenerative AI Systems Researcher2024Los Gatos, California, United States
  4. NetflixMachine Learning Platform Intern2022 — 2024Campbell, California, United States
  5. University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of EngineeringPhD Student2021 — 2024San Diego, California, United States
  6. AppleSiri Understanding Intern2021Seattle, Washington, United States
  7. University of California San DiegoUndergraduate Research Assistant2019 — 2021San Diego, California, United States
  8. AppleMachine Learning Intern2020
  9. California State University-Los AngelesUndergraduate Researcher2017 — 2019Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
  10. DermalogicaSoftware Engineer Intern2019Carson, California, United States
  11. DermalogicaSoftware Intern2018Carson, California

Skills & more

CUDA1Operations ResearchSystems EngineeringLeadership1Research1Machine Learning1Data ScienceData AnalysisProject ManagementStrategic PlanningAlgorithmsArtificial Intelligence (AI)
+12 moreDeep LearningMicrosoft OfficeJavaPythonTensorFlowKerasPandas (Software)UiPathMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft WordMicrosoft SQL Server

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Who is Kabir Nagrecha?
Kabir Nagrecha is the CEO and co-founder of Tessera Labs. He previously worked as a research scientist on Meta's model-system co-design team, focusing on performance optimization for large-scale deep learning in ads and LLaMA, and earlier worked on LLMs and diffusion models for studio and recommendation systems at Netflix. He completed his Ph.D. at UC San Diego at age 20, advised by Arun Kumar and Hao Zhang, developing systems for more efficient and scalable deep learning.
Where does Kabir Nagrecha work?
Kabir Nagrecha is Chief Executive Officer of Tessera Labs.
What companies did Kabir Nagrecha found?
Kabir Nagrecha founded Tessera Labs.
Where did Kabir Nagrecha go to school?
Kabir Nagrecha studied at UC San Diego (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science); UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); California State University, Los Angeles (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science).

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