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About
Navid Aghasadeghi is Founder and CEO of Shiraz AI. He previously worked as a Senior Staff Robotics Engineer at Boston Dynamics, contributing to Spot's transition from R&D to commercial deployment and leading industrial manipulation, and earlier served as a Principal Robotics Engineer at Rethink Robotics developing controls for the Sawyer robot; he also founded the AI consumer app GenZArt and holds a PhD in ECE from UIUC.
CEO at Shiraz AIYC S26
Intro paths
Navid went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Shiraz AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Navid can intro founders to Shiraz AI's investors below.
Shiraz AI's investors · 4
Co-founders at Shiraz AI
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Navid Aghasadeghi?
- Navid Aghasadeghi is Founder and CEO of Shiraz AI. He previously worked as a Senior Staff Robotics Engineer at Boston Dynamics, contributing to Spot's transition from R&D to commercial deployment and leading industrial manipulation, and earlier served as a Principal Robotics Engineer at Rethink Robotics developing controls for the Sawyer robot; he also founded the AI consumer app GenZArt and holds a PhD in ECE from UIUC.
- Where does Navid Aghasadeghi work?
- Navid Aghasadeghi is CEO of Shiraz AI.
- What companies did Navid Aghasadeghi found?
- Navid Aghasadeghi founded Shiraz AI.
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Y Combinator mafia10,594
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The University of Texas at Austin mafia436
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign mafia426
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Rethink Robotics mafia7
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Boston Dynamics mafia4
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