About
Rashmi Bala is the co-founder and CTO of Anakin, leading engineering and data science efforts. She previously worked across eCommerce companies and holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur.
Rashmi Bala @rashssss
Been wondering whether it’s a common part of human nature to search for hills to die on. Is it? Do we?
Feb 20, 2026 · ♥ 4
Rashmi Bala @rashssss
For AI, an analogy that works now but may change in very near future itself is “Chirag ka Genie”. That is because as of now, it doesn’t seem to have ambitions truly of its own, or so it appears. Everyone has been given a genie now. It’s at least a situation in which a good
Feb 11, 2026 · ♥ 2
Rashmi Bala @rashssss
Due to personal reasons, I spent the past two years being pretty much at the bottom of the trench, utterly drained and bankrupt both physically and mentally (energy wise). For better or for worse, as opposed to following some popular advice, I have had the approach of thinking my
Jan 9, 2026 · ♥ 1
Founder at AnakinYC S21
Intro paths
Rashmi went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Anakin's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Rashmi can intro founders to Anakin's investors below.
Anakin's investors · 2
Co-founders at Anakin
