# Rohit Hiwale

> Rohit Hiwale is the co-founder and CEO of Morphle Labs, a Y Combinator W20 deep-tech company building robotic microtomes and high-throughput whole slide scanners for digital pathology. An IIT Kharagpur computer science graduate and second-time founder with prior engineering stints at Yahoo, WalmartLabs and Rippling, he is trying to automate the physical and imaging bottlenecks at the core of cancer diagnostics.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Morphle Labs Inc.
- **Organizations:** Morphle Labs Inc., BigClozet (prior), Rippling (prior), WalmartLabs (prior), Yahoo (prior)
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.Tech + M.Tech, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- **Known for:** Co-founded Morphle Labs, a YC W20 deep-tech company, Built RoboTome, described as the first robotic microtome capable of slicing biopsy blocks at more than twice the speed of an experienced histotechnologist, Shipped MorphoLens whole slide scanners digitizing 100+ slides per hour

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Intern at Yahoo! working on review extraction and classification from unstructured data
- **2012** — Graduated IIT Kharagpur with B.Tech and M.Tech in Computer Science
- **2012-2015** — Engineering roles including WalmartLabs and later Rippling
- **2015** — Co-founded BigClozet, an AI-powered fashion discovery platform
- **2017** — Co-founded Morphle Labs with Anchit Navelkar in Bengaluru
- **2020** — Morphle Labs joins Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch
- **2021** — Product validation with pathology labs on ~Rs 1 crore capital; MorphoLens scanners deployed
- **2025-11** — Raised $5M Series A led by Inflexor Ventures to scale robotic microtomes and AI scanners

## Achievements

- Co-founded Morphle Labs, a YC W20 deep-tech company
- Built RoboTome, described as the first robotic microtome capable of slicing biopsy blocks at more than twice the speed of an experienced histotechnologist
- Shipped MorphoLens whole slide scanners digitizing 100+ slides per hour
- Raised a $5M Series A in November 2025 (total funding ~$6.33M)
- Bootstrapped early product-market fit on approximately Rs 1 crore in capital
- Second-time founder with a prior AI/fashion venture (BigClozet)

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Morphle Labs raised $5M Series A led by Inflexor Ventures to scale robotic microtomes and imaging systems for cancer diagnostics.

## Links

- Website: https://morphlelabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohithiwale/

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Last updated: 2026-07-08