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Tahsin Rahman

Founder

Founder at Draftaid

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FoundedDraftaid · YC

About

Tahsin Rahman holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and currently serves as cofounder and CTO of Draftaid. He previously led AI/ML security systems development for the Canadian Department of National Defence and has background experience in instrumentation systems for the oil and gas sector.

Founder at DraftaidYC W24

Intro paths

YC

Tahsin went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Draftaid's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Tahsin can intro founders to Draftaid's investors below.

Draftaid's investors · 2

New Stack VenturesChicago · $500K – $1.5M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Draftaid

MAMohammed Al-arnawoot
Mohammed Al-arnawootFounder
AEAbdullah Elqabbany
Abdullah ElqabbanyFounder

Experience

  1. DraftaidCofounder and CTOcurrent2022 — presentToronto, Ontario, Canada
  2. N-Dimension Solutions, Inc.Data Scientist2019 — 2020Toronto, Canada Area
  3. TechnipTelecommunication and Instrumentation Engineer2014 — 2015Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Skills & more

Deep Learning3Statistical Signal Processing6Statistical Data Analysis6Navigation Systems4Inertial Navigation3Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)3Coding Theory3Computer Vision3Python4Matlab4LaTeX3

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Tahsin Rahman?
Tahsin Rahman holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and currently serves as cofounder and CTO of Draftaid. He previously led AI/ML security systems development for the Canadian Department of National Defence and has background experience in instrumentation systems for the oil and gas sector.
Where does Tahsin Rahman work?
Tahsin Rahman is Founder of Draftaid.
What companies did Tahsin Rahman found?
Tahsin Rahman founded Draftaid.
Where did Tahsin Rahman go to school?
Tahsin Rahman studied at University of Toronto (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering); Queen's University (Master of Applied Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering); American University of Sharjah (Bachelor of Science - BSc, Electrical Engineering).

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