Raunak Chowdhuri
FounderFounder at Reducto
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedReducto · YC
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About
Raunak Chowdhuri is Co-founder and CTO at Reducto. He studied computer science at MIT and previously founded and operated a computational chemistry consulting business. He has published computer vision research during his high school years.
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Founder at ReductoYC W24
Intro paths
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Raunak went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Reducto's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Reducto's investors · 7
Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2025BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2025BoxGroupNew York · $1M checks · since 2024First Round CapitalSan Francisco · $1M – $7M checks · since 2024SV AngelSan Francisco · since 2024WndrCoRedwood City · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024
Co-founders at Reducto
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Adit AbrahamFounder
Experience
- ReductoFoundercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- Oloren AICTO2020 — 2023Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT DriverlessMachine Learning Researcher - Perception Team2020 — 2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- MIT Lincoln LaboratoryMachine Learning Research Consultant2020 — 2021
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)Research Assistant2020 — 2021Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityMachine Learning Research Lead2020 — 2021San Diego, California, United States
- Peptide LogicMachine Learning Research Consultant2020 — 2021San Diego County, California, United States
- NVIDIAAutomous Driving Research Intern2021Santa Clara, California, United States
- NVIDIAAutomous Driving Research Intern2021
- DeGirum Corp.Verification Consultant2020San Diego, California, United States
- CaltechResearch Assistant2019Pasadena, California
- PhonoNet Research ProjectIndependent Research2018 — 2019San Diego County, California, United States
- IEEE Robotics and Automation SocietyIROS 2018 Reviewer2018
- University of California, BerkeleyUndergraduate Researcher - Berkeley DeepDrive2017Greater San Diego Area
- Rockley Photonics Inc.Software Engineer - Intern2016Pasadena, California
Skills & more
OpenCV7Computer Vision2Machine Learning1Research1Robotics1Data Analysis1ROSNumpyMatplotlibVim3Graph TheoryPython8
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PyTorchC++JavaLinuxGitLaTeXJetson Developer Board- Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
- MIT 6.00.1x: Introduction to Conputer Science and Programming using Python — edX
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Raunak Chowdhuri?
- Raunak Chowdhuri is Co-founder and CTO at Reducto. He studied computer science at MIT and previously founded and operated a computational chemistry consulting business. He has published computer vision research during his high school years.
- Where does Raunak Chowdhuri work?
- Raunak Chowdhuri is Founder of Reducto.
- What companies did Raunak Chowdhuri found?
- Raunak Chowdhuri founded Reducto.
- Where did Raunak Chowdhuri go to school?
- Raunak Chowdhuri studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering); Westview High School (High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates).
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