Ankit Gupta
General Partner at Y Combinator
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkit Gupta is a computer scientist and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building machine learning teams and products at the intersection of AI and life sciences. As co-founder and CTO of Reverie Labs he grew an interdisciplinary engineering culture, raised $31M, and helped build a small-molecule therapeutics pipeline that led to acquisition by Ginkgo Bioworks. He has been hands-on across ML, cheminformatics, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack engineering—writing code early and then scaling teams to productionize it. After leading AI at Ginkgo he joined Y Combinator as a Visiting Partner and is now a General Partner, bringing founder-level product and research judgment to early-stage startups. A Harvard alum who did ML research on DNA structure under prominent advisors, he blends deep academic foundations in deep learning with practical biotech execution. Based in Cambridge, MA, he is known for translating cutting-edge research into commercial drug-discovery platforms and investor-ready ventures.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) magna cum laude with highest honors Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) magna cum laude with highest honors Computer Science at Harvard University
English, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (135)
github10
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
ml10
neural-network10
biology10
data-science10
vocabulary10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
rubygems9
dotnet9
elm9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ankitvgupta/pycodestyle-action
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
A Github Action that runs pycodestyle and leaves a comment on your pull request with style errors.
Contributions:1 release, 42 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
pythonrunsleavespull-requestrequest
ankitvgupta/ankitvgupta.github.io
Oct 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 93 pushes in 7 years 6 months
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