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Siddharth Girdhar
CEO, Pivot Robotics
Company

Based in
San Francisco, CA
Stage
Seed
Type
Founder
Siddharth Girdhar co-founded Pivot Robotics in 2023 with Vignesh Rajmohan, a fellow Carnegie Mellon University computer science graduate, and now serves as CEO. The San Francisco company builds AI vision software that lets industrial robot arms handle dangerous, labor intensive manufacturing tasks, starting with metal grinding at cast iron foundries. Before Pivot Robotics, Girdhar worked as a robotics software engineer at Nimble and interned in engineering at Meta and Uber ATG. Forbes named him to its 2025 Manufacturing and Industry 30 Under 30 list.
Company

Pivot Robotics
Pivot Robotics builds AI vision control software that lets off the shelf industrial robot arms automate finishing and inspection work in high mix manufacturing.
Founded
2023
Stage
Seed
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Investors
YC
Y Combinator
N
NuVentures
UV
Unpopular Ventures
FCC
Four Cities Capital
ECM
Eight Capital Management
PF
Pioneer Fund
1B
10 BOND
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