# Taranjeet Singh

> Taranjeet Singh is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Mem0, which builds persistent memory infrastructure for AI applications. Previously an engineer at Paytm and a growth engineer turned senior product manager at Khatabook, he built Cookup AI and collaborated with Deshraj Yadav on EvalAI and Embedchain. Mem0 joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch and announced $24 million across Seed and Series A in October 2025.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Mem0
- **Organizations:** Mem0, Embedchain, Cookup AI, Khatabook, Paytm, CloudCV, Gradeup, Inclusys
- **Education:** Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Growth Series, Reforge, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Cookup AI reached more than one million users, according to his founder profile and GitHub biography., Co-created EvalAI with Deshraj Yadav., Accepted into YC Summer 2024 after seven applications.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Says he had decided to start a company by this year.
- **2014-2015** — Created a Hindi tokenization module.
- **2015-2017** — Software engineer at Paytm.
- **2016-2017** — Open-source work with CloudCV, including EvalAI with Deshraj Yadav.
- **2017-2018** — Senior software engineer at Gradeup.
- **2018-2019** — Senior software engineer at Inclusys.
- **2019-2022** — Joined Khatabook as its first growth engineer and became senior product manager.
- **2022-2023** — Founded Cookup AI, a GPT app store.
- **2023** — Worked on Embedchain, the open-source RAG framework that preceded Mem0.
- **2024** — Joined YC Summer 2024; published his transition-to-Mem0 announcement on July 26.
- **2025** — Co-authored the Mem0 research paper; company announced $24M across Seed and Series A.

## Achievements

- Cookup AI reached more than one million users, according to his founder profile and GitHub biography.
- Co-created EvalAI with Deshraj Yadav.
- Accepted into YC Summer 2024 after seven applications.
- Co-author of Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory, submitted April 28, 2025.
- Mem0 announced $24 million across Seed and Series A on October 28, 2025.
- Contributed a chapter on industrial applications of NLP in search to Practical Natural Language Processing, published by O’Reilly.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — YC listed the founder video This Startup Is Trying To Solve The AI Memory Problem, dated January 23, 2026.
- **2025-10** — Mem0 announced $24M across Seed and Series A, led respectively by Kindred Ventures and Basis Set Ventures.
- **2025-06** — Appeared on InProd to discuss his founder journey, AI memory and small teams.
- **2025-04** — Co-authored the Mem0 research paper submitted to arXiv.

## Links

- Website: https://taranjeet.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taranjeet7114
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/taranjeetio
- GitHub: https://github.com/taranjeet

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Last updated: 2026-10-26