Sriharsha Guduguntla

Hyperbound

YCombinator Summer 2023, Building the first virtual sales gym to upskill your SDRs & AEs on the phones

Co-Founder & CEO

Modern Sales Pros

Member

RevGenius

Sales Enablement Collective

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Bloom

Bloom (YC W21) teaches people how to start building wealth and financial literacy early by investing in the stock market. Helped launch and scale full-stack web applications and a React-Native based mobile app that has over 500,000 downloads (Top 25 finance apps in the App Store)

Founding Engineer

Easy Loop

Pioneered an open-source Chrome Extension serving 20,000+ high school students across the country. Streamlined the grade calculation process, saving students 5 hours of otherwise lost time every week. Designed a product site, started a Facebook page with 400+ followers, and earned school press coverage

App Link: http://tinyurl.com/easyloop, Press Link: https://bit.ly/2oBab3m

Founder

Berkeley RISE Lab

Worked in the ERDOS/Pylot autonomous driving team under the guidance of Prof. Joseph Gonzalez, Peter Schafhalter, and Sukrit Kalra. Building a streaming dataflow system for self-driving cars and robotics applications.

Research Assistant

Salesforce

Revamped Einstein AI Bot Builder Setup UI/UX with end-to-end testing & new backend API integrations (ES6 JavaScript, Java). Fostered feature discoverability through cross-team collaboration & integrating In-App Guidance features with bot builder to help customers learn about key AI features (LWC, Aura, ES6 JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS)

Software Engineer Intern

Calypso

Spearheading Calypso Finances, a modern loan servicing platform:
- Skydeck HotDesk Accelerator
- Blockchain at Berkeley Accelerator
- SCET Collider Cup 2019 Top 3 Startups

Co-Founder

Transitioned the Einstein AI Bot Builder team’s Map View feature into GA by being the first to introduce modern ADA compliant web accessibility features to Salesforce’s popular flow builder component. Presented two live demos to 100+ employees and executives — sparked interest in many other teams for adoption (Aura, LWC, ES6 JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jest)

CEO at Hyperbound (YC S23) | Helping marketing leaders build pipeline with AI at scale

Call me Sai! I'm a YCombinator Founder and alumni (S23) who's interested in startups and the intersection of AI and sales and marketing. Currently building next-generation GTM tools at https://hyperbound.ai. 🚀 

I'm a self-learned full-stack engineer and designer with experience building software for 10+ years.

http://sriharshaguduguntla.com

🚨URGENT: We're hiring 2 Strategic Mid-Market Account Executives in San Francisco --> $240K OTE + quarterly accelerators + growth opportunities at Hyperbound (NOT remote). 

Both our current AEs, ☠️ Belal Batrawy and Isaac Hong have SURPASSED quota with a quarter still left in the fiscal year. They've both had $1M months and they're closing the biggest logos of their careers, hitting accelerators and making tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses. 

In the last 20 months since we launched Hyperbound, we've
- Been entirely inbound with word of mouth being our strongest growth channel
- Raised a $15M Series A
- Hit 2 back-to-back $1M months last quarter
- Closed Fortune 10 and Fortune 100 enterprises on massive thousand seat rollouts
- Grown from $0 → 7 figure ARR in 2024 in just 11 months, founder-led sales with a team of 4
- Have a 90%+ win rate in competitive head-to-head deals
- Invented a new category of sales tech that wasn't even possible before January 2024
- Scaled from 9 people at the start of this year to 20+ and on pace for 30 by EOY

Who we're looking for:
- Someone with 3-5 years of closing experience with a consistent track-record closing mid-market deals
- Hungry to make the jump to enterprise and just waiting for an opportunity
- Thinks outside the box and helps design sales strategy in the office, alongside the founders, Atul and I
- Wants to be part of the next category-defining moment in sales tech
- Relocate to SF (if not in the bay area)

**This is not a remote role! 5x/week at our SF office. 

We will have both roles filled before the end of the calendar year. DM me and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gzXyJ6rx

CEO at Hyperbound (YC S23) | Building AI Sales Roleplay Simulations to upskill GTM teams

The system of record is dead. 

The system of action is taking its place.

Data isn't your competitive advantage anymore. How fast you act is.

"I don't need another dashboard. I need direction."

That's what a senior sales leader told me this morning, and it hasn't left my head since.

"I can tell you our conversion rates, our sales cycles, who's performing well, who's not. What I can't tell you — is why."

They have more dashboards than they can count. More trackers, reports, and metrics than they'll ever need in Gong and their CRM. 

But when they go looking for why performance changed, it turns into a scavenger hunt. 

We have a saying at Hyperbound: "Insights die in dashboards."

That's exactly what they were suffering from. 

On top of that, their team just launched a new, more complex product, but leadership still expects the same short sales cycle.

"Do we shove everything into one demo? Or slow down and risk losing velocity?"

It's not just a tactical question. It's about how fast a company can learn and adapt.

"We can see deal velocity shift. But we never know why until weeks later."

These so-called insights sit buried under layers of charts and filters, inaccessible in the exact moment someone needs them.

Here's the reality: 

Data is a commodity now. Every company has it.

The advantage isn't knowing. It's acting fast and at the right time. 

The leaders who win next year won't be the ones staring at dashboards.

They'll be the ones who are using AI systems that filter through the noise to suggest action. 

At Hyperbound, that's what we're building, tools that help sales leaders stop reacting to data and start compounding on insight.

Alex Bouaziz

Deel

Your Forever People Platform ❤️

Today, Deel serves over 35,000+ companies worldwide—from small teams to publicly traded enterprises.

We are growing! - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Deel/

Co-founder & CEO

Sarona Ventures

As of February 2018, I am only part of the investment committees and decision making. I am not involved in the day to day operations.

Sarona Ventures is a unique investment fund applying world-class business practices to leverage its investments and pro-actively transform technologies into thriving multinational organizations.
Sarona ventures were early investors in groundbreaking companies such as:
- https://verbit.ai/
- https://www.dondesearch.com/
- https://cherre.com/

Founding Partner

Lifeslice

Lifeslice is a team of doers developing interactive products to empower brands and people in video creation.

A mobile app to create collaborative videos with friends. We are connecting the world through video creation.

A web which revolutionizes day to day marketing by empowering companies with the right tools to collect thousands of authentic and relatable videos from their community.

Imperial College London

Helped develop innovative and economically viable technologies to enhance the drinking water treatment process - Sponsored by the 5 main water companies in the UK.

Researcher, Environmental Engineering

Deel is a global payroll solution which helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere as independent contractors or full time employees compliantly and in minutes.

Backed by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz & Spark Capital and amazing angels.

We are growing! - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Deel/

50k employees across 24 countries!! 

So proud of the Deel team for bringing home one of the world’s major banks. One of the largest deels in our history. 

Can’t wait to work on this 🚀

Co-Founder & CEO @Deel (We’re growing!)

🚀 Big news for teams running on Workday  

We’ve been partnering with Workday for a while, and we’re stepping things up. 

Excited to double down with my friend Carl Eschenbach and his amazing team. 

We’re launching an enhanced collaboration that brings together our Global Payroll Connect Certification, a unified approach to supporting companies on Workday, and a broader investment in a dedicated Workday practice at Deel.

For companies on Workday, this means smoother integration between our platforms, compliant payroll in 150+ countries, all delivered seamlessly inside Workday — plus all the global operations Deel handles: EOR, contractors, compliance, entity setup, and IT for distributed teams.

You stay in Workday. Deel handles the local execution.

Proud of the teams who made this happen. If you're growing globally on Workday, this partnership makes all the difference.

Check it out here →

Open article: Deel and Workday Deepen Partnership by deel.com

We just dropped new global research (across 22 markets) exploring how AI is reshaping the workforce – and the results are pretty crazy:

•⁠  ⁠2 in 3 companies expect to slow entry-level hiring
•⁠  ⁠9 in 10 say roles are already changing or disappearing
•⁠  ⁠2 in 3 are already investing in AI training to reskill their teams

Entry-level jobs used to be where you learned how to work, lead, and grow. Now, AI’s totally changing that first step. The companies investing in reskilling today? They’re the ones building tomorrow’s leaders and a competitive workforce today.

So, don’t wait for the skills gap to close and start helping your team get comfortable using AI in their everyday work. The future belongs to teams that treat AI like a teammate, not just a tool.

Link to download the research in comment 👇

AI hiring is exploding, up 585% YoY at Deel. 

From engineers to AI tutors, new roles are popping up everywhere. The future of work isn’t person vs. machine, it’s collaboration. Full insights in our new AI workforce report. 🔗

Open article: Deel Policy Report: AI and the Future of the Workforce by deel.com

Deel Policy Report: AI and the Future of the Workforce

Deel is tripling down on Crypto - Yall aren’t ready for what’s coming! 👀

I’ve stepped into a new role as 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 at Deel.

The mission is clear: make payroll 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 — whether it moves on-chain or off-chain.

Next on-chain moves, straight from the lab 🧪:
• 𝗢𝗻-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 – Fund payroll instantly from any wallet, no middlemen, no delay ⚡
• 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 – Pay your team in stables, always on time 🎯 
• 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 – Let your team hold, spend, and earn, all inside Deel 🤑

We’re spinning up a dedicated crypto vertical; If you want to shape the next evolution of payroll and bring 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 to millions of workers and businesses — let’s talk 🪃

We’re hiring👇 (links in comments)
🔗 Staff Product Designer (Web3 & FinTech)
🔗 Full-Stack Engineer (Web3 & FinTech)
🔗 Backend Engineer (Web3 & FinTech)

Deel data shows the Forward Deployed Engineer role growing 10× in the last year.

And it makes sense.

As AI apps take off, companies are realizing something Palantir understood early: the fastest way to deliver value is to put engineers directly with customers.

It collapses the gap between “what people need” and “what gets built.”
 It turns deployment into product insight. And it creates a new kind of hybrid operator-engineer that didn’t exist at scale before.

Feels like the beginning of a major shift in how technical teams operate!

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