Rajat Bhageria
Founder And CEO at Chef Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRajat Bhageria is a founder-operator and roboticist with 11 years of experience building AI-enabled products and venture portfolios from first principles, currently leading Chef Robotics to apply perception and machine learning to automate food manufacturing. He blends hands-on technical depth in computer vision, deep learning, ROS, and full-stack engineering with proven GTM skills—scaling teams, product launches, and fundraising backed by top-tier investors. As Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Prototype Capital and a venture partner at Afore, he scouts and helps build pre-seed companies that have gone on to multi-hundred-million-dollar outcomes. Rajat’s early roots include a peer-reviewed physics paper and a college startup that served visually impaired users, showing a pattern of tackling hard technical problems with user-first products. Frequently published in outlets like Forbes and TechCrunch and featured in major press, he pairs founder empathy with a clear obsession for 10x, long-lived businesses. Not obvious from the title: he repeatedly launches ventures with minimal resources and turns them into investable, well-marketed companies.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Economics Operations Management Marketing Computer Science, BS Economics Operations Management Marketing Computer Science at The Wharton SchoolSycamore High SchoolMS Engineering Robotics and Machine Learning (GRASP Lab), MS Engineering Robotics and Machine Learning (GRASP Lab) at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (4)
javascript5
css5
double1
clap1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RajatBhageria/AutoStereogram-Generator
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 9 pushes in 8 months
RajatBhageria/Waywo
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 1 push in 1 month
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