About
Sid Manchkanti is co-founder and CEO of Pulse. He previously worked at NVIDIA and D.E. Shaw, and studied computer science at UC Berkeley.
sid @sid_mnk
Agentic payments are now live on @Pulse__AI . An agent can point at our API with no account, no API key, and no signup, and pay for extraction on its own, one call at a time. It runs on the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), settling inline over HTTP in USDC, in the same request https://t.co/b3svAKq4PK
Jul 20, 2026 Β· β₯ 35 Β· β 5
sid @sid_mnk
Surge's GDP.pdf benchmark tests the documents enterprises run on, and even top frontier models pass only a fraction of whole tasks. The bottleneck isn't model intelligence. It's input quality. @Pulse__AI as the extraction layer lifted whole-task success from ~22% to ~32% https://t.co/kFoKqKXF0d
Jun 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 23 Β· β 4
sid @sid_mnk
More: https://t.co/B6OUcpcObo https://t.co/dRCgKdnzop
May 13, 2026 Β· β₯ 4
Founder at PulseYC S24
Intro paths
Sid went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner β the partner who ran Pulse's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Sid can intro founders to Pulse's investors below.
Pulse's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Pulse
Experience
- PulseCo-Founder, CEOcurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco, California
- NVIDIASoftware2022 β 2024Santa Clara, California
- The D. E. Shaw GroupSoftware + Equities2023New York, New York
- UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Instructor2021 β 2023Berkeley, California
Education
- University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Computer Science
- Y CombinatorS24
- Archbishop Mitty High School
Skills & more
Languages Spanish
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Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia8,668
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University of California, Berkeley mafia448
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Archbishop Mitty High School mafia4
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Same school
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Also attended Y Combinator2,000
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Shared employers
Also worked at Pulse1
Also worked at NVIDIA104
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Also worked at The D. E. Shaw Group43
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Also worked at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)31
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