Pankaj Gupta is a technology founder who co-founded Yupp, a crypto-incentivized AI-evaluation platform that wound down in March 2026 after failing to reach sufficient product-market fit. Pankaj Gupta's Twitter Score is 64 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #13,083 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Pankaj Gupta co-founded Yupp alongside AI lead Gilad Mishne, with the platform launching publicly in June 2025. The model allowed users to compare AI responses and supply feedback in exchange for credits convertible to money, with stablecoin rewards integrated on Base and Solana. Yupp raised a $33M seed round led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz, with Coinbase Ventures and more than 45 individual angels also participating. By the time of its shutdown announcement on March 31, 2026, the platform had signed up more than 1.3 million users and several AI labs as paying customers.
Pankaj Gupta founded Halli Labs, an AI and machine-learning startup that Google acquired in 2017, after which its team joined Google's Next Billion Users organization. He also co-founded Sahasra Networks, a semiconductor startup focused on chipsets for high-speed IP-address lookups. Earlier in his career, Pankaj Gupta previously worked at Coinbase as VP of Engineering for Consumer Products, previously worked at Google Pay as Senior Director of Engineering, formerly worked at Twitter, and previously served as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Stayzilla. He holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford.
Pankaj Gupta has 19,087 followers as of September 2026 and has published 11,486 posts. Pankaj Gupta has been mentioned by 55 accounts a total of 111 times.
Pankaj Gupta has backed Shardeum.
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