Abhilash Chowdhary is the Co-Founder and CEO of Crustdata (YC F24), a real-time B2B data platform that serves as the data layer powering AI agents, sales tools, and investment platforms.

Abhilash holds a Bachelor's degree from IIIT Hyderabad and built his career leading AI and engineering teams at Uber, Postmates, and Serve Robotics, where he helped develop the robotics platform for autonomous food delivery.

Abhilash co-founded Crustdata after connecting with Chris Pisarski through YC's co-founder matching tool in 2023, united by a shared vision to build the data infrastructure for the AI agent era.

Under his leadership, Crustdata was accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch and closed a $6M seed round led by Y Combinator and A Capital, with participation from General Catalyst and Phosphor Capital.

Crustdata's platform indexes millions of companies and people in real-time and is relied upon by leading AI SDR, recruiting, and investment platforms worldwide, with Y Combinator itself using Crustdata to source and discover startups.