# Jonathan Siddharth

> Jonathan Siddharth is the CEO and Co-founder of Turing, a $2.2 billion AI-powered talent and AGI infrastructure company based in San Francisco. A Stanford CS alum with a lifelong obsession with artificial intelligence, he built his first neural network as a teenager to drive a simulated car. After founding and selling Rover (an AI content discovery app) for ~$30M, he launched Turing in 2018 to build the world's largest intelligent developer talent cloud. Today, Turing partners with frontier AI labs including OpenAI to train and improve the world's most capable language models, and counts Fortune 500 companies among its 900+ enterprise clients. He has raised $334M in total funding and led Turing to over $167M in annualized revenue.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-founder at Turing
- **Organizations:** Turing, Rover (acquired), Revcontent, Yahoo
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** Bachelor's in Computer Science (1st Rank, Department Merit Awards), Anna University, Chennai, Master's in Computer Science (Distinction in Research; Christopher Stephenson Memorial Award for Best Masters Research), Stanford University
- **Known for:** 1st rank in Computer Science department at Anna University, Christopher Stephenson Memorial Award for Best Master's Research in CS at Stanford, Published peer-reviewed IEEE paper on neural networks for self-driving cars as a sophomore

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Internship at Yahoo Search Relevance team, building query classifiers using machine learning
- **2007** — Met co-founder Vijay Krishnan at Stanford; graduated with distinction
- **2008** — Co-founded Rover, an AI-powered content discovery app
- **2014** — Rover reached #1 on Apple App Store for content recommendations
- **2017** — Rover acquired by Revcontent for approximately $30 million
- **2016-2018** — Served as SVP of Technology at Revcontent post-acquisition
- **2018** — Founded Turing with Vijay Krishnan on March 1, 2018
- **2021** — Turing achieved unicorn status
- **2022** — Turing reached $4 billion peak valuation; OpenAI engaged Turing to help GPT-3 learn coding
- **2025** — Raised $111M Series E at $2.2B valuation; $167M ARR; 900+ enterprise clients

## Achievements

- 1st rank in Computer Science department at Anna University
- Christopher Stephenson Memorial Award for Best Master's Research in CS at Stanford
- Published peer-reviewed IEEE paper on neural networks for self-driving cars as a sophomore
- Built query classifier at Yahoo that delivered significant relevance gains across multiple markets
- Led Rover to #1 on Apple App Store; sold for ~$30M
- Founded Turing, which became a unicorn in 2021 and reached $2.2B valuation in 2025
- Partnered with OpenAI to provide coding training data for ChatGPT
- Raised $334M in total funding across multiple rounds
- Scaled Turing to 2M+ developer talent cloud and 900+ enterprise clients
- Reached $167M annualized revenue run rate by 2025

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Turing raised $111M in Series E funding led by Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund) at a $2.2 billion valuation, doubling its previous valuation. Total funding reached $334M.
- **2025-11** — Featured in Fortune magazine profiling his daily habits, including his refusal to take vacations and love of ChatGPT and Kindle.
- **2025-03** — Turing reached $167M annualized revenue run rate and announced expanded AI coding capabilities for frontier model partners.

## Links

- Website: https://turing.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonsid
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/jonsidd
- GitHub: https://github.com/jonsid
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonsid/

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Last updated: 2026-05-12