Neel Gadde is Co-Founder and COO at CueBench, a Y Combinator-backed (S26) reinforcement learning post-training platform targeting scientific reasoning and performance engineering for frontier AI labs.

Neel co-founded Snap Poker alongside his CueBench teammates, serving as Co-Founder and CRO, before pivoting to tackle a deeper challenge in AI infrastructure.

As part of one of the youngest teams in the YC S26 batch, Neel and his co-founders turned a late-night idea into a funded, MVP-ready company in under three weeks, earning backing from both Y Combinator and NVIDIA Inception.

At CueBench, Neel focuses on operations and growth, helping build RL environments that address tasks where frontier models fail more than 80% of the time, including scientific reasoning, experiment design, and inference engineering.

CueBench is backed by Y Combinator and NVIDIA Inception with $500K in initial funding, and is actively serving frontier AI labs seeking to push the boundaries of model capability through specialized post-training environments.