Ali Sareini

Ali Sareini is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nautilus, an AI-driven software platform for the car wash industry, based in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The startup recently secured $500,000 in seed funding from Y Combinator to develop specialized business-to-business management and marketing tools. Previously, Sareini led SABRES, a software consulting firm where he developed a top-50 mobile application that acquired 80,000 users and received National Science Foundation funding. Before his entrepreneurial ventures, he built critical money-movement systems as a software engineer at Fidelity Investments and earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. Leaving an Ivy League master's degree program to pursue his startup full-time, Sareini currently focuses on leveraging his early operational experience at Autobell Car Wash to build specialized enterprise software for the commercial car wash sector.