About
Kushagra Chitkara is a cofounder at Almanac with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a master's degree in data science from Harvard.
Founder at AlmanacYC S26
Intro paths
YC
Kushagra went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harshita Arora, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Almanac's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Kushagra can intro founders to Almanac's investors below.
Almanac's investors · 4
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Co-founders at Almanac
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Rohan SharmaFounder
DS
Divit ShethFounder
Experience
- Almanac (YC S26)Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- C3 AIData Science Intern2024Redwood City, California, United States
- Harvard AI Safety TeamTechnical Intro Fellow2023 — 2024
- Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurAI Researcher2022 — 2023
- Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurEngineering Student2019 — 2023
- Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurData Science Researcher2022
- Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurMachine Learning Researcher2021
- Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurResearch Intern2021
- Université Grenoble AlpesSummer Research Intern2022
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel HospitalData Science Fellow2021
- AIESEC in IndiaMarketing Team Lead2020Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Skills & more
Leadership1Solution Orientated1Linear AlgebraObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)SSH ClientParallel ComputingDatabase ServersHigh Performance Computing (HPC)Big Data AnalyticsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Applied LinguisticsStatistics
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Data VisualizationProject ManagementDeep LearningArtificial Neural NetworksConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Data AnalysisWeb CrawlingArtificial Intelligence (AI)ProgrammingMarketingJavaLinux Server- Social and Behavioral Research Investigators — CITI Program
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
- Data Structures — Coursera
- Object Oriented Programming in Java — Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
- Machine Learning — Coursera
- Crash Course on Python — Coursera
- Applied Text Mining in Python — Coursera
From Kushagra's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kushagra Chitkara?
- Kushagra Chitkara is a cofounder at Almanac with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a master's degree in data science from Harvard.
- Where does Kushagra Chitkara work?
- Kushagra Chitkara is Founder of Almanac.
- What companies did Kushagra Chitkara found?
- Kushagra Chitkara founded Almanac.
- Where did Kushagra Chitkara go to school?
- Kushagra Chitkara studied at Harvard University (Master of Science - MS, Data Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cross Registered); Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering).
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