# Daksh Gupta

> Daksh Gupta is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Greptile, an AI code-review company that grew from a Georgia Tech student project and a one-way move west into a Y Combinator-backed developer-tools business. With co-founders Soohoon Choi and Vaishant Kameswaran, Gupta has focused Greptile on understanding whole codebases, reviewing pull requests, catching bugs, and learning company-specific engineering standards. He is also a candid, sometimes polarizing advocate for urgency, in-person collaboration, fast feedback, and distinctive founder-led marketing.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Greptile
- **Organizations:** Greptile, Y Combinator, Georgia Institute of Technology, Amazon, Qualcomm, CREATE-X
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Winter 2024 batch (Greptile), Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded Greptile with Soohoon Choi and Vaishant Kameswaran., Led Greptile through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch., Raised a $4.1 million seed round led by Initialized Capital in 2024.

## Career timeline

- **2019-2023** — Studied computer science at Georgia Tech, where he met future Greptile co-founders Soohoon Choi and Vaishant Kameswaran.
- **2022** — Worked with Choi and Kameswaran on student startup projects; Georgia Tech alumnus Christopher Klaus provided $100,000 to support their independent work.
- **2022-2023** — Completed software engineering internships including roles at Amazon and Qualcomm.
- **2023** — Graduated from Georgia Tech, declined a large-company job path, moved to San Francisco with his co-founders, and shifted their work toward AI tools for software developers.
- **2023** — Launched the company initially known as Onboard AI, focused on helping developers understand large codebases.
- **2024-01** — Renamed the company Greptile, a pun on the command-line search tool grep.
- **2024-03** — Launched Greptile on Hacker News and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
- **2024-06** — Announced a $4.1 million seed round led by Initialized Capital after reaching nearly 400 software teams.
- **2025-09** — Announced a $25 million Series A led by Benchmark and launched Greptile v3.
- **2026** — Continued scaling Greptile as an AI code-review and validation platform serving more than 2,000 customers.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Greptile with Soohoon Choi and Vaishant Kameswaran.
- Led Greptile through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
- Raised a $4.1 million seed round led by Initialized Capital in 2024.
- Raised a $25 million Series A led by Benchmark in 2025, bringing reported total funding to about $30 million.
- Built Greptile into a code-review platform used by more than 2,000 customers by early 2026.
- Launched Greptile v3, which the company reported caught three times more critical bugs than its prior version.
- Earned Georgia Tech Faculty Honors for 4.0 GPAs in fall 2019 and spring 2020.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Was listed as the fireside-chat speaker for a Georgia Tech event with Y Combinator partners and separately invited students to discuss Greptile's engineering and research problems.
- **2026-01** — Georgia Tech profiled Greptile's path from CREATE-X to more than 2,000 customers and about $30 million in total funding.
- **2025-10** — Discussed AI coding, the company's pivot to code review, hiring, pricing, marketing, fundraising, and Y Combinator on The Peel podcast.
- **2025-09** — Announced Greptile's $25 million Series A led by Benchmark and the launch of Greptile v3.
- **2025-09** — Reported that Greptile reviewed more than 500 million lines of code and helped prevent more than 180,000 bugs in a month.

## Links

- Website: https://dakshgupta.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakshg
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dakshgup
- GitHub: https://github.com/dakshgup

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Last updated: 2026-08-18