raghav tirumale

i went to tjhsst for high school, where i built things alongside really strong peers. a 6 ft tall humanoid we got far enough to move a leg and balance in sim, and a real time voice ai, an early agentic harness built on top of existing models.

i studied computer engineering at uiuc and finished in three years, most of it spent inside startups. an open source ai model i trained at khoj (yc s23), rf and drone tracking at guardian rf (yc s24), low bit inference at deepgrove (yc s25), with grad classes on manycore parallel algorithms and machine learning systems in between. i also got to be in rooms with partners from places like sequoia and y combinator.

i'm most interested in space, defense, robotics, manufacturing, and longevity tech, the places where software meets atoms under real stakes, and companies like anduril, saronic, epirus, and cx2. being an 8vc fellow let me get closer to the companies i care about.

i'll be joining anduril shortly to work on the hardest problems along that thesis.

outside that i meditate, train, cook, drink tea, and have long conversations with friends.

tirumale [dot] raghav [at] gmail [dot] com