Harshit Gupta is Co-Founder and CTO at Cheiron, an AI-native operating system built to transform how biopharma teams manage and advance drug development programs.

Harshit graduated with honors from IIT Bombay, earning the President of India Gold Medal and the Shri Rakesh Mathur Excellence Award, before pursuing a Master's in Computer Science at Stanford University.

Harshit brings deep expertise in AI, knowledge representation, and large language models, with prior experience at Abacus.AI, Optiver, and FinIQ Consulting, and co-founded the SK Networks-backed research lab PhnyX Lab.

At Cheiron, Harshit leads the technical architecture of the platform's proprietary Life Sciences Knowledge Graph, a structured intelligence layer connecting biomedical, clinical, regulatory, patent, and commercial knowledge into a single model.

In less than six months since launch, Cheiron has been adopted by tens of thousands of biopharma professionals and secured an $8M seed round led by Menlo Ventures, with backing from Moderna co-founder Robert Langer and former Pfizer CMO Freda Lewis-Hall.