About
Madhav Lavakare studied computer science at Yale, where his senior thesis addressed speech extraction from noisy multi-speaker environments. He previously conducted audio AI research at MIT Media Lab as part of a team that collaborated on a live musical performance integrating human and AI components.
Madhav Lavakare @madlavak
I love YC. Grew monthly revenue 6.5x from $14k to $93k from September to October. Sales & marketing used to be the bane of my existence as a technical founder. Had to hammer it into myself until I was Stockholm syndromed.
Nov 10, 2025 · ♥ 5
Madhav Lavakare @madlavak
Most people in the Bay don’t give a shit about privacy anymore the way people used to a few years ago. Recording conversations is the de facto, and in some cases, actually expected. But, the people who do care about it, care about it a lot. They get MAD about it. Two
Nov 9, 2025 · ♥ 3
Madhav Lavakare @madlavak
I was this close to building a property tax compliance B2B SaaS Al but I thought it was too “moonshot” https://t.co/WV7yJ5GuLK
Nov 9, 2025 · ♥ 3
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Intro paths
Madhav went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran AirCaps's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Madhav can intro founders to AirCaps's investors below.
AirCaps's investors · 2
Co-founders at AirCaps
