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Vishruth N

Vishruth N

Founder & CEO at Hyphen; AI product builder

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Bengaluru, India
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined January 2025
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Summary

Early-stage founder and operator focused on AI productization — currently leading Hyphen (YC W25) where he’s building medical-data annotation and tooling for healthcare AI teams. He combines product leadership with hands‑on execution typical of early startups. vishruth+1
Product & GTM experience from a YC-backed startup environment: as a founding product/GTM member at Craze (YC S22), he worked on early product launches and customer growth, giving him both go-to-market and product operations experience. vishruth+1
Strong hands-on technical and systems background developed at IIT Bombay — includes embedded and controls work (IIT Bombay Racing), campus-scale AI tooling (InstiGPT serving thousands), and a variety of ML/LLM experiments and software projects. webflow+1
Public builder and open-source contributor: maintains public projects (e.g., Spill) and a personal site documenting projects and founder notes, indicating a preference for shipping small, reusable tools and documenting learnings. github+1

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How I furnished my founder's profile (blog post / founder notes)

Personal writeup about the author's approach to preparing a founder profile (posted on his site while applying to YC).

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Motorsports / Formula 1 enthusiast; built student racecars webflow+1

Notes

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Mar 1, 2026