Summary
Rishabh Srivastava is a serial founder and product-driven engineer with 11 years of experience building data and AI platforms across Asia and the U.S., currently co-founding Defog.ai and FactIQ in San Francisco. He specializes in deploying fine-tuned LLMs for enterprise analytics and creating high-throughput research and data APIs—work that powered Loki.ai to serve over 5 billion API requests and was later folded into Defog. Rishabh combines systems-level thinking from his Industrial & Systems Engineering background with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach that bootstrapped Loki.ai to mid six-figure revenues. He’s worked directly with large media, FMCG, and government clients, and brings consulting experience building behavioural analytics for major publishers. Based in Singapore and the Bay Area, he prioritizes long-term leverage and value creation over short-term gains. Outside product work he writes at rish.blog, signaling a reflective approach to building durable technical and business systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
YC W23, YC W23 at Y Combinator
GCE A-Levels Physics Chemistry Math Economics, GCE A-Levels Physics Chemistry Math Economics at Raffles Institution
B.Eng. Industrial and Systems Engineering, B.Eng. Industrial and Systems Engineering at National University of Singapore