Rahul Karajgikar
FounderFounder at Truffle AI
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedTruffle AI · YC
About
Rahul Karajgikar is co-founder and CTO at Truffle AI, developing developer tools for AI agents. He previously worked as an engineer at AWS OpenSearch.
Founder at Truffle AIYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Rahul went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Truffle AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Rahul can intro founders to Truffle AI's investors below.
Truffle AI's investors · 1
Co-founders at Truffle AI
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Shaunak SrivastavaFounder
Experience
- Truffle AICo-Founder and CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Engineer 22023 — 2025
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Engineer2021 — 2023
- OpenSearch ProjectContributor2021 — 2024
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development Engineering Intern2020Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Uplift Inc.Software Development Engineering Intern2019San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
Public Speaking3Teamwork3C++7Java7SQL4C4Microsoft Office6Spring Framework3Representational State Transfer (REST)3Git2Event Management5Marketing Strategy4
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SponsorshipObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Capital RaisingEvent Marketing StrategyFrom Rahul's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Rahul Karajgikar?
- Rahul Karajgikar is co-founder and CTO at Truffle AI, developing developer tools for AI agents. He previously worked as an engineer at AWS OpenSearch.
- Where does Rahul Karajgikar work?
- Rahul Karajgikar is Founder of Truffle AI.
- What companies did Rahul Karajgikar found?
- Rahul Karajgikar founded Truffle AI.
- Where did Rahul Karajgikar go to school?
- Rahul Karajgikar studied at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science); Y Combinator.
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