Mehul Jain
Co-founder and CTO of Fabric and OpenRound
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| Location | Bengaluru, India |
| Education | B.Tech CS, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 2017 |
| Companies | Fabric, Aidetic |
Mehul Jain is co-founder and CTO of Fabric, an AI hiring platform based in Bengaluru, India that automates first-round candidate screening and interviews.1 He co-founded Fabric in March 2024 and led the technical development of OpenRound, a developer assessment platform that launched on April 9, 2026, giving candidates real codebases and access to AI coding tools rather than algorithmic puzzles.16 OpenRound and Fabric joined the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc. in San Francisco.10
Jain studied Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) in Dhanbad, graduating with a B.Tech in 2017, and completed a minor in Finance and Financial Management between 2015 and 2017.1 While at IIT ISM, he served as a core team member and organizer of the Google Students Club from August 2015 to April 2017.1
His undergraduate research included projects on static and dynamic hand gesture recognition for robots (August 2014 – April 2015), an online platform for training and deploying object detection models, and precision landing for UAVs using fiducial markers.1
During his undergraduate years, Jain completed three internships: digital marketing and SEO work at Infibeam.com in Ahmedabad (June–July 2015), app strategy and prototyping at Konstant Infosolutions (December 2015–January 2016), and software development at Dataman Computer Systems in Kanpur (May–July 2016).1
After graduating, Jain joined FlytBase as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer in Pune in June 2017, a position he held until October 2018.1 FlytBase builds enterprise software for autonomous commercial drone operations, covering dock and fleet management for industries including security, utilities, and infrastructure inspection.13 At FlytBase, Jain worked on drone AI projects including real-time object tracking and following with unmanned aerial vehicles.1
In October 2018, Jain co-founded Aidetic in Pune alongside Abhishek Agarwalla (CEO), Ketan Mishra (VP Engineering), and Yadvendra Kshatri (VP Data Science), taking the role of CTO.21 Agarwalla later recalled Jain's early conviction about the technology: "The AI revolution over the next decade is definitely going to be as big as the Internet Revolution of the 90s — I specifically remember Mehul telling me back in 2018."2
Aidetic positioned itself as an AI product development studio helping startups build and scale AI products.2 In its first year, the firm worked on video analytics, building a reconnaissance solution for a defense drone company and AI-powered security systems for a school chain.2 By 2019, it had expanded into sports analytics, accounting, and finance, and was serving clients in the United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand, with expertise in deep learning on edge devices, chatbots, and NLP.2
Aidetic achieved 5x year-over-year revenue growth in 2020, secured five long-term client partnerships, and broadened its practice into manufacturing, media, and B2B SaaS.2 The firm reached $1M in revenue in 2022 while supporting more than 20 active clients, then grew to 60+ professionals by 2023 as it pivoted toward generative AI and vision AI.2 As CTO, Jain hired more than 50 data scientists over the firm's history.3 The team also built enterprise chatbot infrastructure under the names Convflow and pdfbot.ai.3
In 2024, Aidetic became a technology partner of both AWS and Databricks and launched solution accelerators for generative AI use cases.2 By that point, the firm had delivered over 300 AI projects with a 0% project default rate across 50+ clients.2 Jain left Aidetic in March 2024 to co-found Fabric.1
Jain co-founded Fabric in March 2024.1 The platform automates resume screening and first-round interviews using a conversational AI interviewer, producing structured candidate reports across technical skills, soft skills, and cultural fit.4 Fabric detects cheating by invisible AI assistance tools including Cluely and Interview Coder without relying on gaze detection or requiring app downloads, and takes more than 20 signals from each candidate response to determine whether AI is being used to answer questions.4
Fabric raised a $110K angel round to automate first-round interviews, followed by a $100K pre-seed round.89 Customers include Meesho, CRED, Kearney, Skydo, Inshorts, Tata, and Trigent Software.4 Jain has stated that Fabric had run 20,000+ interviews and saved 100,000+ hours of recruiter time as of early 2026.1
Jain appeared on a podcast with Ankit Jain discussing interview cheating, the risks of over-automation, and which parts of hiring should remain under human judgment.11
While building Fabric's interview infrastructure, Jain developed the argument that LeetCode-style technical interviews are structurally broken: "LeetCode measures how good someone is at LeetCode, not engineering."6 He described two non-negotiables for a replacement: candidates should work on real software engineering problems on a real codebase rather than algorithmic puzzles, and they should have full access to AI coding tools during the assessment.6
Jain announced OpenRound's launch on April 9, 2026.6 The platform gives candidates a real codebase and access to AI coding agents including Claude Code and Cursor — the same tools engineers use on the job — and asks them to complete an engineering task within 90 minutes.75 Assessments produce scored reports across six dimensions: Analysis, Discovery, Planning, Judgement, Execution, and AI Collaboration.5 OpenRound runs on Fabric's existing hiring infrastructure, including the rubrics, scoring, and cheating detection systems that Meesho, CRED, Kearney, and Trigent had already been using for earlier interview stages.7 Jain described the evaluation focus as measuring "how they think when the problem is ambiguous, how they direct the AI versus blindly follow it, and how they take ownership of the output."7
Jain's GitHub profile is at github.com/j13mehul.12