About
Shivesh Gupta is co-founder and CTO of Frekil, developing AI-powered workflows for pharmaceutical evidence generation. He previously worked as a systems software engineer at Sony Japan and graduated from IIT Bombay, where he led the web and coding club.
Founder at FrekilYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Shivesh went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Frekil's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Shivesh can intro founders to Frekil's investors below.
Frekil's investors · 1
Co-founders at Frekil
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Nikhil TiwariCo-founder & CEO
Experience
- Frekil (YC X25)Co-Founder and CTOcurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Sony | R&DSystem Software Engineer2024Tokyo, Japan
- Indian Institute of Technology, BombayHead TA - CS1012023 — 2024
- Web and Coding Club, IIT BombayInstitute Web and Coding Manager2023 — 2024
- KALPATARU POWER TRANSMISSION LIMITEDSWE Intern2023
- IIT Bombay Research Park Foundation-ASPIRESDE Intern2023Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- NCC IIT BombayB Certificate2022 — 2023Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- NCC IIT BombayTrainee2022 — 2023Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Student Alumni Relations Cell, IIT BombayWeb Coordinator2022 — 2023Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Student Satellite Program, IIT BombayWeb Developer2022 — 2023
- Techfest, IIT BombayCoordinator2022 — 2023
- Techfest, IIT BombayEvent Organizer2021 — 2022Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Oodles AITechnical Writer (YC W23)2022Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- E-Cell, IIT BombayEvent Organizer2021 — 2022Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Mood Indigo IIT BombayEvent Organizer2021 — 2022Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Skills & more
DockerVagrantContainerizationKubernetesWebAssemblyBashRobot Operating System (ROS)Node-REDEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)FrappeData Processingpandas
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NumPyMathematical ProgrammingProblem SolvingC++C (Programming Language)Time ManagementPython (Programming Language)Pandas (Software)LeadershipManagementTeamworkCommunication- Advanced Learning Algorithms — DeepLearning.AI
- Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification — DeepLearning.AI
- Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design — Google
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Shivesh Gupta?
- Shivesh Gupta is co-founder and CTO of Frekil, developing AI-powered workflows for pharmaceutical evidence generation. He previously worked as a systems software engineer at Sony Japan and graduated from IIT Bombay, where he led the web and coding club.
- Where does Shivesh Gupta work?
- Shivesh Gupta is Founder of Frekil.
- What companies did Shivesh Gupta found?
- Shivesh Gupta founded Frekil.
- Where did Shivesh Gupta go to school?
- Shivesh Gupta studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Bachelor of Technology - BTech); Saint John's Academy (High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science).
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