The Refuel Team

Our mission is to accelerate the era of AI abundance. The first step is to make clean, labeled data available for every single business in the world.

Our Team

Rishabh Bhargava

Co-Founder/CEO

Prior to starting Refuel, Rishabh helped scale ML and data infra at Primer.ai and Datacoral (acquired by Cloudera).

He studied CS and AI at Stanford and Cambridge.

Nihit Desai

Co-Founder/CTO

Prior to starting Refuel, Nihit led multiple ML teams for content integrity across Facebook products.

He studied CS and AI at Stanford, UIUC, and IIT-Madras.

Dhruva Bansal

Software Engineer

Dhruva has scaled document understanding at DeepMind and automated Kiva configuration at Amazon Robotics.

He studied CS and AI at Stanford and Georgia Tech.

Sahil Yadav

Software Engineer

Sahil has built distributed systems at scale, transforming data into insights. He was previously at Cloudera.

He studied at IIT Delhi.

Rajas Bansal

Software Engineer

Rajas previously worked at Amazon and Cohesity. He's interested in using LLMs to build cool things and graph machine learning.

He studied CS at Stanford.

Derek Petersen

Software Engineer

Derek has driven software and product innovation at Lyft, Flipboard, StumbleUpon, and Apple.

He also pursues personal projects and open-source alternatives to popular services.

Kamesh Darisipudi

GTM Lead

Prior to joining Refuel, Kamesh previously worked in customer facing and GTM roles at Google and Salesforce.

He studied Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Our Investors

and executives and operators from OpenAI, Datadog, Meta, ServiceNow, Upstart and others.

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The Refuel Team

Our Team

Rishabh Bhargava

Nihit Desai

Dhruva Bansal

Sahil Yadav

Rajas Bansal

Derek Petersen

Kamesh Darisipudi

Our Investors

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