Baseten

Tuhin Srivastava studied electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and began his career in investment banking at Macquarie Group before moving into machine learning, including an early role at Gumroad. He went on to co-found a startup called Shape and spent time at South Park Commons, where the idea for Baseten took shape. In 2019 he co-founded Baseten with Amir Haghighat, Philip Howes, and Pankaj Gupta to make it easier for teams to deploy and serve machine-learning models in production. As CEO he has led the company's pivot into AI inference infrastructure and raised capital from investors including Greylock, IVP, Spark, and NVIDIA.

Amir Haghighat is a software engineer with roughly two decades of experience, including roles at Palm and Yelp before becoming Head of Engineering at Gumroad, where he worked alongside his future Baseten co-founders. He later spent several years at Clover Health as an engineering manager leading teams that built ML models for population-health management. In 2019 he co-founded Baseten and serves as CTO, focusing on the company's model-performance and inference engineering. His work spans Baseten's serving stack and the open-source Truss model-packaging framework.

Philip Howes is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Baseten, the AI inference infrastructure company he started in 2019 with Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, and Pankaj Gupta. He leads scientific and machine-learning work at the company, which serves open-source and custom models in production for enterprise customers. Additional verifiable detail about his earlier career could not be confirmed from public sources.

Pankaj Gupta is a co-founder of Baseten, which he helped start in 2019 with Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, and Philip Howes. The founding team had previously worked together in the startup world, including at Gumroad. Additional verifiable detail about his prior roles could not be confirmed from public sources.