About
Yash Sahota is a computer science graduate from Cornell (2020) who previously worked as a product security engineer at Slack and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is co-founder of OpenIntake.
Founder at OpenIntakeYC W25
Intro paths
YC
Yash 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 OpenIntake's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Yash can intro founders to OpenIntake's investors below.
OpenIntake's investors · 1
Co-founders at OpenIntake
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Grayson PikeFounder
Experience
- OpenIntake (YC W25)Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- SlackSoftware Engineer2023 — 2025New York, New York, United States
- McKinsey & CompanyDigital Analyst2021 — 2023New York, New York, United States
- Cornell UniversityGraduate Teaching Assistant2020Ithaca, New York, United States
- McKinsey & CompanySoftware Engineering Intern2020New York, New York, United States
- American ExpressSoftware Engineering Intern2019New York, New York
- Cornell UniversityTeaching Assistant2018Ithaca, New York, United States
- Lutron ElectronicsSoftware Engineering Co-Op2018Coopersburg, Pennsylvania
- Def-Logix, Inc.Software Development Intern2017San Antonio, Texas Area
Skills & more
Java2Python (Programming Language)1C++C#DjangoMatlab
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Yash Sahota?
- Yash Sahota is a computer science graduate from Cornell (2020) who previously worked as a product security engineer at Slack and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is co-founder of OpenIntake.
- Where does Yash Sahota work?
- Yash Sahota is Founder of OpenIntake.
- What companies did Yash Sahota found?
- Yash Sahota founded OpenIntake.
- Where did Yash Sahota go to school?
- Yash Sahota studied at Cornell University (Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science); Cornell University (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science).
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