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Shaunak Srivastava

Founder

Founder 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.

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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.

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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

Y Combinator

Co-founders at Truffle AI

RKRahul Karajgikar
Rahul KarajgikarFounder

Experience

  1. Truffle AICo-Foundercurrent2024 — present
  2. Perz AICo-Founder2024
  3. HyperVergeMachine Learning Engineer2022 — 2023
  4. HyperVergeMachine Learning Engineer2022
  5. Carnegie Mellon University Robotics InstituteResearch Intern2021 — 2022Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  6. WorldQuantResearch Consultant2019
  7. Carraro Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.Summer Intern2019
  8. Department of Sponsorship and Marketing, BITS Pilani - Goa CampusMarketing Manager2018 — 2019Goa

Education

  1. Y CombinatorWinter 20252025
  2. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, PilaniB.E ECE + M.Sc Maths, Mathematics and Electronics and Communications Engineering2017 — 2022

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

From Shaunak's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Y Combinator1,463

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

+ 1,457 more

Also attended Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani89

SomnathTechnology Partner and Chief Data Scientist at Clear VenturesSanjot MalhiPartner at NorthzoneRishabh KaulVenture Partner at Hoxton VenturesSanjeev KumarVenture Partner at FusionYash SankrityayanManaging Partner, Southeast Asia at Jungle VenturesSiddharth DhankharPrincipal at Lightbox

+ 83 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Truffle AI1

Rahul KarajgikarFounder at Truffle AI

Also worked at HyperVerge3

Dayakar PuskoorFounder and Managing Director at Dallas Venture CapitalVedant TrivediAnalyst at Peak XV PartnersSudheer KuppamGeneral Partner at Venture Rock

Also worked at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute1

Brian DoughertyElectrical Prototyping Engineer at Innovation Works

Also worked at WorldQuant4

Igor TulchinskyFounder, WorldQuant Ventures LLC at WorldQuant VenturesJoel OchoaAssociate at Blockchain Founders FundKyle DAssociate at Glasswing VenturesRitvik VaradaFounder at Knowlify