One Chowdhury

One Chowdhury is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Octolane AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup developing an AI-driven sales CRM platform. Under his leadership, the company participated in the YC W24 batch, raised a $2.6 million oversubscribed seed round, and onboarded over 200 companies, including Retell AI. The platform currently maintains a waitlist of more than 7,000 teams seeking to automate lead generation and sales workflows. Previously, Chowdhury attended Duke University and served as the first engineering intern at the a16z-backed startup Mintlify, where he engineered GPT-4 powered documentation search features. During his freshman year, he built and sold his first startup, which had accumulated over 6,000 users and generated 300,000 monthly site visits prior to its acquisition. His current focus centers on leveraging artificial intelligence to autonomously execute outbound sales actions and streamline data management.