# Chaitanya Sarda

> Chaitanya Sarda is the co-founder and CEO of AiPrise, a Y Combinator-backed compliance technology company that unifies identity data, decisioning, case management, and AI-assisted reviews for global customer and business onboarding. An IIT Kharagpur-trained software engineer who worked at Oracle and later led spam protection and caller ID work at Google, Sarda started AiPrise with Rushabh Shah in 2022. By October 2025, the company said it served more than 150 customers across more than 150 countries and had raised a $12.5 million Series A led by Headline.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at AiPrise
- **Organizations:** AiPrise, Google, Oracle, Samsung R&D Institute India, Tata Consultancy Services, RGen Solutions, Y Combinator
- **Education:** Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- **Known for:** Co-founded AiPrise and was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch., Helped take AiPrise live with its first customers in under 45 days., Led AiPrise through a $2 million early funding announcement in 2022.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Worked as a development intern at RGen Solutions.
- **2013** — Completed a research and development internship at Tata Consultancy Services, working on an interface for static-analysis tools and an Eclipse plugin.
- **2014** — Worked as a research and development intern at Samsung R&D Institute India in Bangalore.
- **2015-2018** — Worked at Oracle as an associate member and then member of technical staff, including mobile automation and IDE extension projects.
- **2018-2022** — Spent more than four years in Google's trust and safety organization, leading work on spam protection, phone-number verification, and caller ID.
- **2022** — Co-founded AiPrise with Rushabh Shah, joined Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch, launched with initial customers in under 45 days, and announced a $2 million raise.
- **2023** — Outlined AiPrise's early focus on identity verification and compliance orchestration for Latin America, Africa, and other emerging markets.
- **2025** — AiPrise announced a $12.5 million Series A led by Headline; the company reported more than 150 customers, a 40-person team, and coverage across more than 150 countries.

## Achievements

- Co-founded AiPrise and was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch.
- Helped take AiPrise live with its first customers in under 45 days.
- Led AiPrise through a $2 million early funding announcement in 2022.
- Led AiPrise through a $12.5 million Series A led by Headline in October 2025.
- Built AiPrise to a company-reported footprint of more than 150 customers across more than 150 countries by October 2025.
- Previously led spam protection and caller ID work at Google.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — AiPrise was included in FinTech Global's AIFinTech100 for 2026, an update Sarda amplified while crediting the company team and customers.
- **2026-07** — Sarda wrote about building a global team across time zones and argued that distributed companies must make culture, expectations, and decision-making explicit.
- **2026-07** — Sarda published guidance for evaluating compliance vendors, emphasizing system breadth, specific AI capabilities, jurisdictional customization, and testing edge cases.
- **2025-10** — AiPrise announced a $12.5 million Series A led by Headline, with participation from Y Combinator, SixThirty Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and strategic angels.
- **2025-09** — Sarda represented AiPrise at the Marketplace Risk conference and was listed to present on AI-powered business onboarding at a Spring Labs event.
- **2025-06** — A Sequence customer case study described AiPrise's move away from a custom Python billing workflow after scaling from roughly 20 to more than 100 customers.

## Links

- Website: https://aiprise.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaitanyasarda
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/sardachaitanya

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Last updated: 2026-08-18