# Rushabh Shah

> Rushabh Shah is the co-founder and co-CEO of AiPrise, a Y Combinator-backed (S22) global compliance platform that lets companies verify customers and businesses in more than 150 countries through a single interface. A former Meta engineer who worked on developer-focused products and payments, he started AiPrise in 2022 with Chaitanya Sarda after a weekend scramble to make a YC deadline. The company has raised roughly $14.6M, including a $12.5M Series A led by Headline in October 2025, and serves 150+ customers including Bridge (a Stripe company) and dLocal.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Co-CEO at AiPrise
- **Organizations:** AiPrise, Meta, Stony Brook University
- **From:** India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** M.S. in Computer Science, Stony Brook University, B.E. in Computer Engineering, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded AiPrise and grew it to 150+ global customers, including Bridge (a Stripe company) and dLocal, Raised roughly $14.6M total, including a $12.5M Series A led by Headline (October 2025), Accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2022 after building a prototype over a single weekend

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Began a Master's in Computer Science at Stony Brook University, working as a teaching assistant for CSE 537 - Artificial Intelligence
- **2018** — Joined Meta (Facebook) as a software/staff engineer, building developer-focused products and working on the payments team during WhatsApp Payments' global rollout
- **2022** — Left Meta and co-founded AiPrise with Chaitanya Sarda; accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch
- **2022** — Raised a $2M round amid a downturn, led by Y Combinator with participation from Okta and others
- **2025** — Closed a $12.5M Series A led by Headline; AiPrise reaches 150+ customers across 150+ countries

## Achievements

- Co-founded AiPrise and grew it to 150+ global customers, including Bridge (a Stripe company) and dLocal
- Raised roughly $14.6M total, including a $12.5M Series A led by Headline (October 2025)
- Accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2022 after building a prototype over a single weekend
- Built a platform combining 80+ local registries and 800+ data points per business, operating in 150+ countries
- Reduced cross-border customer onboarding times from weeks to minutes

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — AiPrise raised a $12.5M Series A led by Headline, with participation from Y Combinator, SixThirty Ventures and Correlation Ventures, to expand its product and team.

## Links

- Website: https://aiprise.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rushabh-shah7

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