2x founder
Madhav Lavakare
Founder @ AirCaps (YC F25) | Yale CS
Experience
Career
2024AirCaps (YC F25)
FounderFounder & CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2024 – Present
2024MIT Media Lab
Visiting Student Researcher · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2024
2023Yale University
Programmer, Levy Decision Neuroscience Lab · New Haven, Connecticut, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023Soft Robotics Laboratory, ETH Zurich
Visiting Student Researcher · Zurich, Switzerland · 2023
2022Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
Independent Researcher · 2022 – 2023
2018Government of India
Indian Presidential/Prime Minister's Gold Medal · India · 2018 – 2019
2018National Innovation Foundation - India
National Innovation Award · India · 2018
2018Ashoka
Ashoka Youth Venturer · 2018
2018nasscom
Invited Speaker · Bengaluru Area, India · 2018
2018Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Guest Speaker · India · 2018
2018Amdocs
Keynote Guest Speaker · India · 2018
- 2017
EduTech Academy
Course Mentor · New Delhi Area, India · 2017 – 2018
- 2016
Project Beta
Head of Audio Engineering · New Delhi Area, India · 2016 – 2018
2017SmartVizX - We are VR®
Intern · Noida Area, India · 2017
- 2011
CompLit For All
FounderFounder · New Delhi Area, India · 2011 – 2017
Bio
I've been obsessed with audio and AR for 11 years (46% of my life). I built my first voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi at age 12. I built my first apps for the Google Glass when I was 13 years old. I studied C.S. at Yale, where my senior thesis focused on extracting clean speech transcripts from noisy multi-speaker audio. In the past, I've researched audio AI at the MIT Media Lab where I was part of the team that built the world's first collaborative human-AI live musical concert.