Saurabh Srivastava
InvestorFounderNemotron, Advanced Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA · Founder at Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds · Founder/CEO at 20n
San Francisco, California, United States
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Jamie MontgomeryunlockedSaurabh: together at Essential (2024–2026)
×3Saurabh: together at VMware
×3Saurabh: together at UC Berkeley
×2Saurabh: together at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
About
Saurabh Srivastava completed a PhD and postdoctoral research in code synthesis using theorem provers. He served as Head of Code Research at Essential AI, and previously founded two YC-backed companies focused on code synthesis for biological and automation applications. He currently works on code model development at NVIDIA.
Founder at Warpdrive by Synthetic MindsYC S18
Intro paths
YC
Saurabh went through Y Combinator (Summer 2018) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Founder/CEO at 20nYC W15
Intro paths
YC
Saurabh went through Y Combinator (Winter 2015) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Co-founders at 20n
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Chris AndersonFounder/CSO
Experience
- NVIDIANemotron, Advanced Deep Learning Researchcurrent2026 — present
- Essential AIHead of Research, Code Intelligence2024 — 2026
- Consequent AIFounder2023 — 2024
- WarpdriveFounder, CEO2017 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- 20nFounder, CEO2014 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- UC BerkeleyAssistant Research Engineer, Computer Science2012 — 2014
- UC BerkeleyPostdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science2010 — 2012
- University of MarylandPhD, Computer Science2003 — 2010
- MicrosoftResearcher2008Bangalore, India
- MicrosoftResearcher2007Redmond
- VMwareSoftware Engineering2005
- VMwareSoftware Engineering2004
- Hewlett-Packard LaboratoriesResearcher2003Greater Chennai Area
- Indian Institute of Technology, KanpurResearcher2002
Skills & more
AlgorithmsAlgorithm DesignDistributed SystemsSoftware SynthesisSoftware VerificationProgramming Language TheorySynthetic BiologyBioinformaticsOCaml/Haskell/Java/C/C#/Scala/Name it..
From Saurabh's professional profile.
Colleagues at NVIDIA
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science at Propagator Ventures
Brooke Seawell
Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Can Celik
Founder at herdr
Dr. Marco Pavone
Investor at AV8 Ventures
Erikan Obotetukudo
Founder and Managing Partner at Audacity Global
Garnet Heraman
Founder and Managing Partner at Aperture Venture Capital
Jonathan Ross
Founder of Groq; inventor of Google's TPU — now at Nvidia
Jure Leskovec
Advisory Board at Silicon Gardens
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Saurabh Srivastava?
- Saurabh Srivastava completed a PhD and postdoctoral research in code synthesis using theorem provers. He served as Head of Code Research at Essential AI, and previously founded two YC-backed companies focused on code synthesis for biological and automation applications. He currently works on code model development at NVIDIA.
- Where does Saurabh Srivastava work?
- Saurabh Srivastava is Founder/CEO of 20n and Nemotron, Advanced Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA and Founder at Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds.
- What companies did Saurabh Srivastava found?
- Saurabh Srivastava founded 20n, Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds.
- Where did Saurabh Srivastava go to school?
- Saurabh Srivastava studied at University of California, Berkeley (Postdoc, Computer Science); University of Maryland (PhD, Computer Science); Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (BTech, Computer Science and Engineering).
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