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YC W17 co-founder and CEO of Ambient.ai, raising $146M in AI security
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Technical Depth · 81th percentile
- Note: The GitHub account @sshrestha274 found in the enrichment does not match Shikhar Shrestha — the profile content (HEOR/healthcare research) and repos (HIA218 course, healthcare analytics) clearly belong to a different person with the same name. No GitHub sub-rules applied.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Ambient.ai is a Y Combinator Winter 2017 company.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Current CEO and Co-founder of Ambient.ai, active since February 2017.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Ambient.ai was co-founded with Vikesh Khanna.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Ambient.ai has raised $146.1M in total funding across six rounds.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Note: The GitHub account @sshrestha274 found in the enrichment does not match Shikhar Shrestha — the profile content (HEOR/healthcare research) and repos (HIA218 course, healthcare analytics) clearly belong to a different person with the same name. No GitHub sub-rules applied.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Ambient.ai's domain ranks 503,982 in the Majestic Million, yielding zero bonus points at that rank.
What you likely need
You're at the stage where the right room matters more than the right deck — Series C prep, enterprise expansion, and IPO positioning all hinge on warm relationships and credibility signals you can only build in person. Festival events that put you in front of late-stage growth investors, enterprise security buyers, and CRO-caliber talent will move the needle fastest. You also need peer founders who've navigated the $50M–$150M ARR stretch to pressure-test your international expansion and leadership team decisions.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA late-stage founder dinner for Series B/C enterprise AI companies backed by a16z and YC to pressure-test Series C data room narratives, revenue audit structures, and ARR trajectory storytelling with peers who've recently closed $100M+ growth rounds
- introsAn a16z enterprise portfolio roundtable connecting Ambient.ai with a16z-backed companies in healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services as potential design partners, channel partners, or lighthouse enterprise customers
- introsA YC W17 alumni dinner focused on founders who've expanded into healthcare and education verticals, to identify enterprise design partners and warm referrals into procurement contacts Ambient.ai hasn't yet penetrated
- hiringA happy hour for operators who've scaled enterprise security or AI SaaS revenue from $40M to $150M ARR, specifically to surface CRO and VP of International Sales candidates with existing relationships in India, Saudi Arabia, and the UK
- positioningA roundtable with enterprise security buyers and CISOs from Fortune 500 companies to co-develop quantified security-incident-reduction narratives that can anchor Ambient.ai's published case studies and investor pitch ahead of a growth round
- positioningA dinner for Series B/C founders actively preparing for IPO or strategic acquisition — with $30M–$100M ARR — to compare public profile strategies, investment bank selection, and thought-leadership playbooks in enterprise AI
- tacticalA dinner with founders and GTM operators who've built enterprise sales presence in India, Saudi Arabia, and the UK simultaneously, to trade tactical playbooks on hiring, compliance, and channel partnerships in each market
- wellbeingA curated wellbeing offsite for founders 7–10 years into building their companies — with co-founders or leadership teams — to share structured frameworks for preventing burnout, maintaining alignment, and resetting priorities at the Series C inflection point