Shaunak Srivastava
FounderFounder at Truffle AI
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedTruffle AI · YC
About
Shaunak Srivastava is a co-founder at Truffle AI who previously conducted generative AI and 3D research at Carnegie Mellon University, with published work in top-tier computer vision conferences. He has built AI products focused on face recognition and health estimation at Hyperverge.
Founder at Truffle AIYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Shaunak went through Y Combinator (Winter 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Truffle AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Shaunak can intro founders to Truffle AI's investors below.
Truffle AI's investors · 1
Co-founders at Truffle AI
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Rahul KarajgikarFounder
Experience
- Truffle AICo-Foundercurrent2024 — present
- Perz AICo-Founder2024
- HyperVergeMachine Learning Engineer2022 — 2023
- HyperVergeMachine Learning Engineer2022
- Carnegie Mellon University Robotics InstituteResearch Intern2021 — 2022Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- WorldQuantResearch Consultant2019
- Carraro Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.Summer Intern2019
- Department of Sponsorship and Marketing, BITS Pilani - Goa CampusMarketing Manager2018 — 2019Goa
Skills & more
Computer Vision8Deep Learning1Marketing1Artificial Intelligence (AI)1Robot Operating System (ROS)1Management16Leadership4Public Speaking1Python13C3C++2
- Algorithmic Toolbox — Coursera
- Data Structures — Coursera
- Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
- Sequence Models — Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Shaunak Srivastava?
- Shaunak Srivastava is a co-founder at Truffle AI who previously conducted generative AI and 3D research at Carnegie Mellon University, with published work in top-tier computer vision conferences. He has built AI products focused on face recognition and health estimation at Hyperverge.
- Where does Shaunak Srivastava work?
- Shaunak Srivastava is Founder of Truffle AI.
- What companies did Shaunak Srivastava found?
- Shaunak Srivastava founded Truffle AI.
- Where did Shaunak Srivastava go to school?
- Shaunak Srivastava studied at Y Combinator (Winter 2025); Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (B.E ECE + M.Sc Maths, Mathematics and Electronics and Communications Engineering).
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