Abhishek Agarwalla
Co-founder of OpenRound and Fabric
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Abhishek Agarwalla is an Indian entrepreneur based in San Francisco who co-founded Fabric, an AI recruitment platform, in January 2025 and OpenRound, an AI-native technical assessment product, in March 2026.1 Before relocating to San Francisco, he spent nearly seven years as CEO of Aidetic, an AI consulting firm he co-founded in Bengaluru in 2018 that delivered over 300 AI projects and reached $1M in revenue by 2022.2
Agarwalla studied Petroleum Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) in Dhanbad (IIT ISM), graduating with a B.Tech in 2017.1
After graduating, Agarwalla joined ZS, a global pharmaceutical analytics and consulting firm, as a Data Scientist in Pune in May 2017.1 His work there included building predictive ML models for a drug launch that reached $2B+ in annual revenue within five years, covering HCP segment identification, sales force structuring, and marketing mix analytics.1 He left ZS in June 2018 to co-found Aidetic.1
Agarwalla co-founded Aidetic in July 2018 with Mehul Jain (CTO), Ketan Mishra (VP Engineering), and Yadvendra Kshatri (VP Data Science).29 The firm launched in Pune focused on video analytics, building a reconnaissance solution for a defense drone company and AI-powered security systems for a school chain in its first year.2 Agarwalla moved the company from Pune to Bengaluru early in its history.10
In 2019, Aidetic expanded into sports analytics, accounting, and finance, and began serving clients in the United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand, adding expertise in deep learning on edge devices, chatbots, and NLP.2 In 2020, the company achieved 5x year-over-year revenue growth, secured five long-term client partnerships, and broadened its practice into manufacturing, media, and B2B SaaS.2
Aidetic reached $1M in revenue in 2022 while supporting more than 20 active clients.2 The team grew to over 60 professionals by 2023, and the firm pivoted toward generative AI and vision AI.2 In 2024, Aidetic became a technology partner of both AWS and Databricks and launched solution accelerators for generative AI use cases.2 By the time Agarwalla stepped away from the CEO role at the end of 2024, Aidetic had delivered over 300 AI projects with a 0% project default rate across 50+ clients.2
Agarwalla co-founded Fabric in San Francisco in January 2025 alongside Ketan Mishra.16 He has described the company as growing out of more than 10,000 hours of direct experience hiring engineers, salespeople, and leaders across his prior ventures.1 Fabric's first product is an AI interviewer named Rebecca that conducts first-round screening conversations with job candidates autonomously, without manual recruiter involvement.1
Fabric raised a $110K angel round to automate first-round interviews, then closed a subsequent $100K pre-seed round.78
While running Fabric's interview infrastructure, Agarwalla's team built a cheating detection algorithm and ran it across more than 70,000 interviews.4 The system identified over 20,000 cases of AI-assisted cheating — involving tools including Cluely, Parakeet, ChatGPT, and Gemini — at 91% accuracy.4 In April 2026, Agarwalla announced he was abandoning that effort: he concluded the arms race between detection methods and circumvention tools had no endpoint, and that banning AI from coding interviews was inconsistent with how software engineers use it on the job.4
Agarwalla announced OpenRound's launch on LinkedIn on April 9, 2026.3 The platform gives candidates a real codebase matched to the hiring company's tech stack alongside access to AI coding agents — the same tools engineers use daily — and asks them to complete an engineering task within 90 minutes.53 Assessments produce scored reports across six dimensions: Analysis, Discovery, Planning, Judgement, Execution, and AI Collaboration.5 Agarwalla has described the format as "like an open book exam but for job interviews."4
OpenRound joined the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc. at Fort Mason in San Francisco in April 2026.11 The Canopy program accepts teams across software, hardware, and media tracks and provides participants with weekly sessions with founders of major companies and up to $50,000 in partner credits.11