# Neil Movva

> Neil Movva is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Sail Research, which builds inference and cloud environments for long-running AI agents. An electrical engineering graduate of Stanford, he previously worked on deep-learning systems at NVIDIA, Apple and Together AI, and co-founded the privacy startup Blyss with Samir Menon. His work focuses on efficient computing and making AI workloads affordable at scale.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Sail Research
- **Organizations:** Sail Research, Together AI, Blyss, Apple, Built Robotics, NVIDIA, Intel
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, The Harker School
- **Known for:** Shared the 2018 SMPTE Student Paper Award with Jason Bud Ginsberg for research on dynamic field of view in a tomographic light-field display., Completed Stanford BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering in 2019., Worked on NVIDIA cuDNN and the Apple Neural Engine.

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Interned in Intel’s Hard IP Group, exploring NLP and speech recognition on the Edison embedded platform.
- **2016-2017** — Deep Learning Architect intern at NVIDIA, working on GPU performance and deep-learning operations.
- **2018** — Robotics engineering intern at Built Robotics; shared the SMPTE Student Paper Award with Jason Bud Ginsberg.
- **2019** — Completed BS and MS degrees at Stanford and joined Apple as a Deep Learning Engineer in August.
- **2022** — Co-founded Blyss with Samir Menon; the company joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch.
- **Before Sail** — Worked on GPU kernels and inference at Together AI; Kleiner Perkins identifies him as its first kernels hire.
- **2026** — Led Sail Research as co-founder and CEO; the company disclosed $80 million in seed and Series A funding in June.

## Achievements

- Shared the 2018 SMPTE Student Paper Award with Jason Bud Ginsberg for research on dynamic field of view in a tomographic light-field display.
- Completed Stanford BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering in 2019.
- Worked on NVIDIA cuDNN and the Apple Neural Engine.
- Co-founded Blyss, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company.
- Co-founded Sail Research, which disclosed $80 million in combined seed and Series A financing in June 2026.
- Published a KV Cache Calculator on September 16, 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Discussed asynchronous inference, memory bandwidth and small modular data centers in an October 16 interview with Cat Tang at Substrate Magazine.
- **2026-09** — Sail published team research on Google TPU v6e optimization on September 9 and Intel Gaudi 3 decode throughput on September 1.
- **2026-08** — Appeared on Invest Like the Best on August 25; Sail released its open-source HTDYM performance-modeling infrastructure on August 27.
- **2026-07** — Sailboxes became generally available on July 14, alongside a technical account of live virtual-machine migrations.
- **2026-06** — Sail disclosed $80 million in combined seed and Series A financing, led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins respectively.

## Links

- Website: https://www.neilmovva.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nmovva
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/neilmovva
- GitHub: https://github.com/neilmovva

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Last updated: 2026-10-25