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Neel Sharma

Founder

Founder/CEO at Sentrial

Berkeley, California, United States

FoundedSentrial · YC

About

Neel Sharma holds a Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley and previously worked on agentic optimization at Sense. He founded Sentrial, a platform for monitoring and evaluating AI agent performance in production environments.

Founder/CEO at SentrialYC W26

Intro paths

YC

Neel went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Sentrial's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Neel can intro founders to Sentrial's investors below.

Sentrial's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Experience

  1. Sentrial (YC W26)Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. SenseMachine Learning Engineer2025
  3. GlidelySoftware Engineer2025San Francisco, California, United States
  4. RadiusXR®Machine Learning Intern2024Pleasanton, California, United States

Skills & more

ROI OptimizationANOVAAugmented Reality (AR)Virtual Reality (VR)Scikit-LearnNumPyOpenCVApplied Machine LearningData AnalysisSignal ProcessingPrincipal Component AnalysisSupport Vector Machine (SVM)
+12 moreOperations ManagementWeb DesignArtificial Intelligence (AI)Non-profit ManagementFundraisingWeb DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentPublic HealthNode.jsJavaGitHubFigma (Software)

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Neel Sharma?
Neel Sharma holds a Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley and previously worked on agentic optimization at Sense. He founded Sentrial, a platform for monitoring and evaluating AI agent performance in production environments.
Where does Neel Sharma work?
Neel Sharma is Founder/CEO of Sentrial.
What companies did Neel Sharma found?
Neel Sharma founded Sentrial.
Where did Neel Sharma go to school?
Neel Sharma studied at University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Data Science); Dublin High School.

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University of California, Berkeley mafia538

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Dublin High School mafia5

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Sense mafia2

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Paul KimFull Stack Software EngineerFounded Silogy

Same school

Also attended University of California, Berkeley1,453

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Shared employers

Also worked at Sense4

Mohan KumarInvestor at Pentathlon VenturesNishant RaoFounding Partner at Avataar Venture PartnersAnand DanielPartner at AccelPaul KimFounder at Silogy