Where does Rush Shahani work?

Rush Shahani is Founder of Persana AI.

What companies did Rush Shahani found?

Rush Shahani founded Persana AI.

Where did Rush Shahani go to school?

Rush Shahani studied at Y Combinator; University of Waterloo (Honours Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science); John Fraser Secondary.

Rush Shahani

Founder

Founder at Persana AI

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedPersana AI · YC

Find your path to Rush

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Aydin SenkutunlockedRush: together at Shopify (2016–2017)

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About

Rush Shahani is co-founder of Persana AI. He has spent five years working as an AI engineer with a focus on natural language processing, and previously held roles at LinkedIn, ElementAI (which was acquired), and Shopify.

Founder at Persana AI YC W23

Intro paths

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

Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Persana AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Rush can intro founders to Persana AI's investors below.

Persana AI's investors · 2

Race CapitalPalo Alto · $250K – $2M checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Co-founders at Persana AI

Sriya MaramCo-founder and CEO

Sriya MFounder

Experience

RoxEngineering Lead, Prospectingcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Manning Publications Co.Authorcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Persana AICo-Founder & CTO (acq)2023 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
Orange CollectiveVenture Partner2023 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
LinkedInSenior Software Engineer2019 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
University of WaterlooAI Researcher2019Kitchener, Canada Area
Element AIAI Engineer, NLP2018Montreal, Canada Area
LinkedInSoftware Engineer2018Sunnyvale, California
ShopifySoftware Engineer2016 — 2017
LoyaltyOneSoftware Engineer2015Toronto, Canada Area
John Fraser SecondaryComputer Science Teaching Assistant2013 — 2014Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Skills & more

Teamwork10Problem Solving6Leadership7Artificial Intelligence (AI)28Sales27Entrepreneurship22Object Oriented Design10Programming12Android Development7Software Development10Web Development7Distributed Systems2

+12 more

Data StructuresAlgorithmsMachine LearningDistributed ApplicationsChatbot DesignChatbot DevelopmentCloud DevelopmentRacketJavaJavaScriptPythonHTML5

Natural Language Processing with Classification and Vector Spaces — Coursera
Building Chatbots Using Google Dialogflow — LinkedIn
Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Rush Shahani?: Rush Shahani is co-founder of Persana AI. He has spent five years working as an AI engineer with a focus on natural language processing, and previously held roles at LinkedIn, ElementAI (which was acquired), and Shopify.
Where does Rush Shahani work?: Rush Shahani is Founder of Persana AI.
What companies did Rush Shahani found?: Rush Shahani founded Persana AI.
Where did Rush Shahani go to school?: Rush Shahani studied at Y Combinator; University of Waterloo (Honours Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science); John Fraser Secondary.