About
Mohammad Gharbat is the founder of Open, which builds AI systems for customer communication and support that automate ticket resolution, quality assurance, and customer insights.
Founder at OpenYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Mohammad went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Open's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Mohammad can intro founders to Open's investors below.
Open's investors · 1
Experience
- OpenFoundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- MollieEngineering Manager2023 — 2024Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- MollieSoftware Engineer2022 — 2023Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- Zid | زدEngineering Lead2020 — 2022
- OpenSooq السوق المفتوحSoftware Engineer2019 — 2020
Education
- Y Combinator
- Dublin City UniversityDigital Forensics
- University of JordanComputer Science
Skills & more
Web Design4User experience1Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)4Computer Vision2vBulletin2Machine Learning2Image Processing2Web Development5ML1LogstashTeamwork4Open
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MySQLPythonPHPHTMLWordPressPhpMyAdminC++Microsoft OfficeSQLJavaScriptC#ECMAScriptLanguages Arabic · Dutch · English
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Frequently asked questions
- Where does Mohammad Gharbat work?
- Mohammad Gharbat is Founder at Open.
- What companies did Mohammad Gharbat found?
- Mohammad Gharbat founded Open.
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