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Texel.ai

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Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-11-03

Overview

Texel is a platform that enables developers to generate hardware-accelerated APIs for running AI pipelines 10 times faster, including image and video applications. For example, developers can use the latest NVIDIA GPUs or Google TPUs without having to become hardware experts themselves.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Aimoji (TBD)

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Rahul Sheth

Founder

Rahul is co-founder and CEO of Texel.ai. He worked on Bitmoji at Snapchat for almost 8 years after completing a Computer Science PhD at Stanford in character animation and physics simulation. He is interested in scalable systems for computer graphics and artificial intelligence.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-11-03

Eli Semory

Founder

Eli is the Co-founder and CTO of Texel.ai. He worked at Snapchat for the last 5 years, building one of the worlds largest graphics GPU deployments. At Texel.ai he's solving the next big problems in Generative AI enabling new and exciting large scale applications.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-11-03
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-11-03

Founded 2023 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA; Remote
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

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