Spandana Govindgari

Co-founder of Rubric AI (Y Combinator), which builds reasoning and verification infrastructure that turns expert judgment into training signals for frontier AI models and agents. A Cornell computer science graduate and two-time venture-backed founder, she was previously a tech lead at Meta, built evaluation infrastructure for Apple Maps, worked at Snap pre-IPO, and earlier founded the AR ad startup Hype (Hype AR); she holds multiple computer-vision and AR patents.