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Padmanabhan (Paddy) Krishnamurthy

Founder

Founder at EzDubs

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedEzDubs · YC

About

Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy founded EzDubs, a real-time speech translation platform that was acquired by Cisco in 2025.

Founder at EzDubsYC W23

Intro paths

YC

Padmanabhan went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran EzDubs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Padmanabhan can intro founders to EzDubs's investors below.

EzDubs's investors · 3

Amino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M checksVenture HighwayPalo AltoY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Co-founders at EzDubs

AKAmrutavarsh Kinagi
Amrutavarsh KinagiFounder

Experience

  1. EzDubsco-Founder, co-CEOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Columbia UniversityGraduate Researcher2021 — 2022New York, United States
  3. CiscoSoftware Engineer Intern2022San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Helen AICo-founder and Researcher2019 — 2021New York, United States
  5. University of Southern CaliforniaVisiting Researcher - Interaction Lab2020 — 2021
  6. The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyResearcher - Visual Speech Recognition, Synthesis2019 — 2021Hong Kong SAR
  7. Royal Academy of EngineeringMachine Learning Developer, Clearbot - Joint Runners-Up, GGCS 20192019London, United Kingdom
  8. The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyResearcher - HKUST MEMS Group2019Hong Kong
  9. HKUST President's CupWinner2019Hong Kong
  10. UberIntern2018Hong Kong SAR
  11. CERNResearch Trainee2015Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Skills & more

Research3Programming1Product Development3Machine Learning3Public Speaking1Presentation Skills1Python (Programming Language)Deep Learning1Data AnalysisC++Artificial Intelligence (AI)Amazon Web Services (AWS)
+12 moreAmazon EC2AWS LambdaAmazon S3JavaJavaScriptLinuxAlgorithmsData StructuresGitTensorFlowPyTorchKeras

Languages Chinese · English · Hindi · Tamil

  • Performing Text — Trinity College London
  • Speech and Drama — Trinity College London

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Padmanabhan (Paddy) Krishnamurthy?
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Padmanabhan (Paddy) Krishnamurthy founded EzDubs.
Where did Padmanabhan (Paddy) Krishnamurthy go to school?
Padmanabhan (Paddy) Krishnamurthy studied at Y Combinator; Columbia University (Master of Science - MS, Computer Science); The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science).

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