Shakhnazar Sailaukan

Co-founder of Rixt, backed by EF.

Before that, I researched discrete diffusion models and developed biomedical ML benchmarks at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. At CrayonLabs, a Dubai-based startup, I built agents for recruiting senior hires and trained models that help early-stage VCs evaluate founders.

Along the way: organized a 122-team rocketry competition, ran a creative agency at 16, took my robot to the World Robot Olympiad Finals against 73 countries, sat on the board of a science-olympiad non-profit, and won $20k at hackathons (plus office hours with a YC GP). Big fan of the Bauhaus.