Sashank Gondala
FounderCTO/Co-founder at FurtherAI
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedFurtherAI · YC
About
Sashank Gondala is co-founder and CTO of FurtherAI. He previously worked as a language modeling scientist at Apple developing models for Siri, and holds a computer science degree from IIT Bombay and a master's degree in computer science with a focus on machine learning from Georgia Tech, where he conducted multimodal AI research.
CTO/Co-founder at FurtherAIYC W24
Intro paths
YC
Sashank 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 Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran FurtherAI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Sashank can intro founders to FurtherAI's investors below.
FurtherAI's investors · 7
Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2025ConvergeCambridge · $500K – $5M checksNexus Venture PartnersPort Louis, Port Louis · $500K – $10M checks · since 2025NFXSan Francisco · $250K – $5M checksPioneerToronto, Ontario · since 2025South Park CommonsSan Francisco · $1M – $10M checks · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024
Co-founders at FurtherAI
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Aman GourFounder
Experience
- Further AICo-Founder, CTOcurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- South Park CommonsMember2023San Francisco Bay Area
- AppleLanguage Modeling Scientist2021 — 2023Cupertino, California, United States
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyGraduate Student Researcher2019 — 2021
- Georgia Institute of TechnologyTeaching Assistant2019 — 2021
- AppleResearch Intern (AI/ML)2020Cupertino, California, United States
- OracleSenior Member Of Technical Staff2016 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- AmazonSummer Internship - Software developer2015Hyderabad Area, India
- Housing.comSummer Internship - Software developer2014Mumbai Area, India
Skills & more
SQL4C++13Python11PostgreSQL3MongoDB1DjangoCSSHTMLMatlab2Linux1Java1C (Programming Language)
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DatabasesKerasTensorFlowPyTorchComputer VisionObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Language ModelingLispMachine LearningAlgorithmsProgrammingLanguages English · Hindi · Telugu
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sashank Gondala?
- Sashank Gondala is co-founder and CTO of FurtherAI. He previously worked as a language modeling scientist at Apple developing models for Siri, and holds a computer science degree from IIT Bombay and a master's degree in computer science with a focus on machine learning from Georgia Tech, where he conducted multimodal AI research.
- Where does Sashank Gondala work?
- Sashank Gondala is CTO/Co-founder of FurtherAI.
- What companies did Sashank Gondala found?
- Sashank Gondala founded FurtherAI.
- Where did Sashank Gondala go to school?
- Sashank Gondala studied at Georgia Institute of Technology (Master's degree, Computer Science); Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science).
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