Sohrab Haghighat

🚀 Founder (2x YC), Entrepreneur, Product Leader | Expert in Robotics, Autonomous Driving, and Space Tech 🛰️ | 20+ years in Control Systems | Global Product Deployment 🌐

Founder

SpaceRyde· Winter 2019🇺🇸 United States

in LinkedIn

2024CEO· Hestus

Founder · since 2018

Company

Hestus

Role

CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

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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SpaceRyde

The Rocket Network: Sustainable & On-Demand Delivery Anywhere in Space

Winter 2019

Experience

Career

Hestus
CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – Present
2024
Career Break
Gap year · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2024
2023
SpaceRyde
Founder
Founder & CEO · 2018 – 2023
2018
Cruise Automation
Planning and Controls, Senior Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2017
2017
Cruise Automation
Controls, Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2017
2016
Cruise Automation
Controls Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015
2015
Cymer
Senior Algorithms Engineer · San Diego County, California, United States · 2014 – 2015
2014
MERL
Member Research Staff · Cambridge, MA · 2012 – 2014
2012
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty
Performance Specialist · Ajax, Canada · 2012
2012
University of Toronto
Graduate Research Assistant · Greater Toronto Area, Canada · 2007 – 2012
2007
University of Waterloo
Graduate Research Assistant · Waterloo, Canada · 2005 – 2007
2005

Bio

Sohrab is a 2x YC founder, currently running Hestus, Inc (S24). Prior to that, Sohrab was founder and CEO of SpaceRyde (W19), a space transportation company, and ran the company for 6 years before selling the IP. Before starting SpaceRyde, Sohrab was an early employee of Cruise and ran Planning and Controls Teams. Sohrab holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, has published 13 patents and 23 technical papers.