2x founder

Kartik Sawhney

Entrepreneur, AI for good, Stanford CS

Co-founder

Samora AI· Winter 2026🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @kartiks22

2025Co-founder· Samora AI (YC W26)

Founder · since 2021

Company

Samora AI (YC W26)

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Samora AI

Multilingual voice agents that outperform humans

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

Samora AI (YC W26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
I-Stem
Co-founder
Co-founder · New Delhi Area, India · 2021 – Present
2021
Our Ability, Inc.
Technology and product advisor · Albany, New York Metropolitan Area · 2022 – Present
2022
Take2 AI
Advisor · Bellevue, Washington, United States · 2024 – Present
2024
Microsoft
Engineering and product · Redmond, Washington, United States · 2018 – 2024
2018
NextBillion.org
Chief Technology Officer · Vancouver, Canada · 2016 – 2018
2016
The Education Commission
Member, Expert panel on technology and innovation · New York · 2016 – 2018
2016
Uber
Software engineering intern · San Francisco · 2017
2017
Microsoft
Software Engineering Intern · Bellevue, WA · 2016
2016
Microsoft
Software engineer intern · Redmond, WA · 2015
2015
Stanford University
Undergraduate Research Assistant · Stanford, CA · 2015
2015
IBM Research
Research Scientist Intern · New Delhi · 2014
2014

Bio

Engineer turned product manager turned founder. Building multilingual voice agents that automate workflows and escalate to humans when needed. Stanford CS, experience at Microsoft, IBM and Uber, scaled products to 500k+ users from 80+ countries.