Rishi Srihari

Rishi Srihari

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Co-Founder, CEO
San Francisco, California, United States

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  • Afore Capital
    Founder-in-Residence
    Afore Capital
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 (3 months)
  • Browserbase
    Software
    Browserbase
    Mar 2025 - Apr 2025 (2 months)
    early eng for director
  • Opennote
    Co-Founder & CEO
    Opennote
    Feb 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)
    Write, learn, and connect ideas—all in one place. Backed by Y Combinator, Acrew Capital, Paul Graham, and more.
  • O
    Co-Founder
    Opennote YC S
    Feb 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)
    the AI tutor that lives in your notes
  • UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
    Learning Assistant
    UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
    Mar 2024 - Mar 2025 (1 year 1 month)
    discrete math
  • NASA SUITS
    Software Engineering Research Intern
    NASA SUITS
    Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 (10 months)
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  • Y Combinator
    Y Combinator
    Y Combinator
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)
    S25
  • UC Irvine
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
    UC Irvine
    Jan 2023 - May 2026 (3 years 5 months)
    on leave
  • Singapore American School
    Singapore American School
    Singapore American School
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2023 (3 years)
  • CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL
    Centennial High School
    CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2023 (5 years)
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    Coauthor
    Apr 2024
    🏆 Won Best First Time Hack at SFHacks 2024 Coauthor is a fully-deployed web application that allows for collaborative work with others for research and academics. Users can access their Workspaces and create beautiful dashboards, talking to our multimodal input language model, which returns a variety of data on various webpages, based on chat inputs, as well as our database. As long as the work allows, users are encouraged to share their workspace with their collaborators, and use the features of the Multimodal AI (Summaries, Search, Citations, etc) to enhance their workflow.
  • Z
    ZotConnect
    Jan 2024
    🏆 Won Best Overall Hack at IrvineHacks 2024 ZotConnect is a web application meticulously crafted to establish straightforward communication between professors and students. Professors are encouraged to post jobs on an explore page, which gets filtered on the student’s view, matching students with the job that fits their skill sets, major, experiences, and more! This guarantees that professors receive applications from candidates precisely tailored to their criteria, eliminating the cumbersome task of sifting through hundreds of student applications. Additionally, we assist with all parts of the application process, using trained Google Gemini AI with the Google Cloud platform to review Student Resumes and Cover Letters, as well as profiles
  • E
    EmprLang
    Feb 2021 - Mar 2021 (2 months)
    A programming language based off of elements of BASIC, built in Python 3.
  • O
    Opennote | LA Hacks 2024
    🏆 Best Touch Screen Hack (track winner) 🏆 Best Use of AI in Education • Co-created an AI-powered text-to-animation platform for STEM education in 36 hours. • Spearheaded product validation, conducting 10+ user interviews to inform product-market fit and define the initial product roadmap. • Collaborated with developers to implement ethical guidelines for data handling, including a GDPR-compliant privacy policy, to increase trustworthiness of AI-powered platform. • Reached 100+ registered users, 700+ site visitors, and 30,000+ social media impressions within 24 hours of the open beta release. • Leveraged the Gemini 1.5 Pro and GPT-4 APIs, along with advanced prompt engineering techniques.
  • A
    A* Pathfinding Algorithm Visualizer
    A visualization of the A-Star pathfinding algorithm using the PyGame module in Python3.
  • S
    Sift
    Local on-device file manager | Secure your documents
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    Podcast Production Team, State Finalist
    Business Professionals of America
    Mar 2021
    Ranked in the top 9 teams in the state of Texas
  • P
    Presidential Award
    May 2019
    Awarded in middle school for maintaining grades of 90s and above throughout 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
  • B
    Fundamental Spreadsheet Applications, State Competitor
    Business Professionals of America
    Regional finalist, competed at Texas state level
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