# Bhairav Mehta

> Bhairav Mehta is the co-founder and CEO of CharacterQuilt, a San Francisco AI company that builds computer-use agents to run enterprise marketing campaigns. A 2x Y Combinator founder, he traded a near-finished MIT PhD in deep learning and robotics - and a research resume spanning NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NVIDIA, and Mila - for the messier business of getting software to do real marketing work. CharacterQuilt interviews real buyers, distills them into AI personas that predict pain points, and then lets agents operate the existing marketing stack. His pitch: campaigns that once took three agencies, ten tools, and six weeks now ship in an hour.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at CharacterQuilt
- **Organizations:** CharacterQuilt, Buzzle AI, Y Combinator
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** PhD, Computer Science (deep learning, multi-task learning) - on leave / departed for entrepreneurship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS), Master's, Deep Learning (advised by Liam Paull and Christopher Pal), Mila (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms), BS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Michigan
- **Known for:** Co-founder and CEO of CharacterQuilt, a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company, Two-time Y Combinator founder (Buzzle AI, S21; CharacterQuilt), Published peer-reviewed AI research at CoRL and ICLR workshops

## Career timeline

- **2018-2019** — Instructor for the Duckietown autonomous vehicles course at Universite de Montreal; Depth First Learning Fellow
- **2019** — Published Active Domain Randomization (CoRL 2019), work on training robots across randomized simulated environments
- **2020** — Research intern at NVIDIA's Seattle robotics lab; co-authored 'A User's Guide to Calibrating Robotic Simulators' (CoRL 2020)
- **2020** — Began PhD at MIT EECS studying data distributions and multi-task learning
- **2021** — Founded Buzzle AI, a voice-of-customer analytics platform (Y Combinator S21)
- **2024** — Co-founded CharacterQuilt with Clint Burgess in San Francisco
- **2026-03** — Raised seed funding (~$130K reported); CharacterQuilt joins Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch

## Achievements

- Co-founder and CEO of CharacterQuilt, a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company
- Two-time Y Combinator founder (Buzzle AI, S21; CharacterQuilt)
- Published peer-reviewed AI research at CoRL and ICLR workshops
- Conducted AI and robotics research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NVIDIA Research
- Contributed to ShadowNav, work on autonomous lunar navigation in darkness
- Built early CharacterQuilt customer base including 1upHealth, ABC Fitness, and Emplifi

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — CharacterQuilt raised seed funding and is part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, repositioning around computer-use agents that deploy enterprise marketing campaigns.

## Links

- Website: https://bhairavmehta95.github.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhairav-mehta/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bhairavmehta
- GitHub: https://github.com/bhairavmehta95

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Last updated: 2026-06-25