Truffle AI
To provide the infrastructure ('AWS for AI Agents') that enables developers to build, deploy, and scale autonomous AI agents with ease.
Founding Story
Founded by Rahul Karajgikar (ex-AWS) and Shaunak Srivastava (ex-HyperVerge/Perz AI) to address the infrastructure complexities of building AI agents. The founders combined their expertise in cloud scalability and machine learning to create a developer-friendly platform for agent orchestration.
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Leadership
Founders
Rahul Karajgikar
Co-Founder and CTO. Previously a Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon Web Services (AWS) working on OpenSearch and cloud infrastructure. Contributor to the OpenSearch Project. Expert in cloud scalability and search technologies.
Shaunak Srivastava
Co-Founder. Previously a Machine Learning Engineer at HyperVerge and a Research Intern at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. Previously co-founded Perz AI. Background in ML, robotics, and agentic workflows.
Executive Team
Shaunak Srivastava
Co-Founder
Expert in ML and robotics; former Co-Founder of Perz AI and ML Engineer at HyperVerge.
Rahul Karajgikar
Co-Founder and CTO
Former AWS SDE 2; specialist in cloud infrastructure and search (OpenSearch).
Business Model
Revenue Model
Usage-based serverless platform and SDK; likely a combination of open-source core with a managed cloud platform (SaaS/PaaS).
Pricing Tiers
Open-source frameworks (Saiki, Dexto) available on GitHub.
Managed serverless deployment of AI agents via the Truffle AI SDK.
Target Markets
- AI Startups
- Software Developers
- Enterprise Automation Teams
- Automated prospect research and outreach
- Natural-language database querying
- AI voice assistants for customer service
- Workflow automation and repetitive task reduction
- Rapid prototyping of AI-driven products
- Individual AI developers
- Startups building agentic workflows
History & Milestones
Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 (W25) batch.
Released Saiki, a YAML-based autonomous agent framework with MCP support.
Reported reaching $220,000 in revenue.
Company founded in San Francisco, CA.
Publicly introduced Dexto, an open-source agent orchestration layer.
