Vishruth

I'm 22. I currently spend most of my time building Hyphenbox.

Outside of work, you might find me at the gym or playing the piano. I'm an unapologetic Formula 1 nerd and have built racecars from scratch.

Products I've built

Spill

A minimalist, open-source mac app for Freewriting.

InstiGPT

Led an Engineering team in my junior year to build the first-ever student-created institutional AI chatbot at scale. InstiGPT currently serves 10,000+ students at IIT Bombay.

Journey So Far

Emergent (YC S24) - Software Engineer

Aug 2025 - Sep 2025

Worked on the domain provisioning infrastructure and the mobile app agent.

Hyphen (YC W25) - Founder

Nov 2024 - Mar 2025

Medical data annotation software for healthcare AI teams.

Craze - Head of Product and GTM

Dec 2023 - Nov 2024

Rippling for India. Built 5 apps across HR, Payroll, IT & Finance and onboarded 150+ customers within 8 months of launch.

AI Community, IIT Bombay - Founding Partner

Apr 2023 - Mar 2024

Established the foundations of the official AI-Community of IITB. Led an engineering team to build the InstiGPT (10,000+ Active users)

Ripik.AI - Machine Learning Engineer

May 2023 - Jul 2023

Configured data ingestion pipelines and trained a model to generate optimal pharmaceutical production plans, job schedules and quality control processes.

IIT Bombay Racing - Tech Lead – (Data Acquisition)

Apr 2021 - Jul 2023

Led the controls subdivision in the embedded systems wing of the electric racecar EVolv. (2nd in Engineering Design and 3rd Overall at Formula Student UK)

IIT Bombay Racing - Overall Coordinator – Oracle RedBull Racing Event

Feb 2023 - Mar 2023

Organized a 3,000-attendee event featuring Red Bull Racing engineers and unveiling of the RB7 race car.

Connect

Feel free to contact me at vishruth [at] hyphenbox [dot] com