Raghav Bansal
Founder & CEO of GitHired
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| Company | GitHired |
| Program | Canopy Spring 2026, Founders, Inc. |
Raghav Bansal is a computer science student at Arizona State University and the founder and CEO of GitHired, an AI-powered technical hiring platform. He won six hackathons between 2024 and 2026 and founded multiple startups before completing his undergraduate degree.1
Bansal enrolled in the computer science program at Arizona State University in August 2022 and is set to graduate in May 2026 with a 4.0 GPA.1 At ASU, he served as president of Startup Village, a student organization that hosts hackathons, workshops, and founder talks. In November 2025, he co-organized VillageHacks, the first hackathon Startup Village organized at this scale. Approximately 120 to 130 students attended, despite the event being advertised primarily by word of mouth.2
VillageHacks brought three funded startups as sponsors, each contributing a problem statement. Winners for each track were offered a final interview at the sponsoring company rather than cash prizes. Bansal and the organizing team verified in advance that the sponsor companies had sufficient funding to make a hire.2 One sponsor, Binsr Inspect, challenged participants to convert a JSON file of home inspection data into a formatted PDF, with a bonus for creative design.2 Bansal acknowledged before the event that logistical mistakes were likely, given it was the first time he and his teammates had organized a hackathon of this kind.2
Bansal founded DigiTech AI in May 2024, an AI automation consultancy for small business owners, and ran it for four months.1 In January 2025, he joined Aayats as co-founder and CTO. Aayats was an AI-powered marketplace connecting recording artists with music industry professionals: producers, engineers, studios, and distributors, and was selected for the Techstars Atlanta 2024 cohort.8 Concurrently, from January to May 2025, he worked as a React engineer intern at Datassential, a Chicago-based food industry data and analytics company.1 After Aayats wound down following the Techstars program, Bansal co-founded Versaunt, an autonomous AI advertising platform, in June 2025, and left in September 2025.1
In parallel, Bansal built several independent tools. ExistYet, built between January and April 2025, was an AI idea-validation tool that Bansal reported receiving over 1,000 searches and 2,400 visitors in its first week.1 Gradify, built between October 2024 and March 2025, automated teacher grading using LangChain and a FAISS vector database, with plagiarism detection and bulk upload support.1
In late 2025, Bansal built the initial version of GitHired with a team at Cal Hacks, UC Berkeley's annual hackathon, winning the competition.6 The team included Aarav Matalia, Asmi Kachare, and Krishna Oza, who became COO when the project was incorporated as a company.67 Bansal and Oza formally founded GitHired in November 2025. The company launched publicly with a post on Hacker News titled "Show HN: GitHired – Find Your Next 10x Engineer," sparking debate about GitHub as a hiring signal.4 Bansal responded directly in the thread, clarifying that the platform targets startups hiring college students and recent graduates rather than senior engineers, and that commit volume contributes only "bonus points" to scoring while the algorithm focuses on project complexity, architecture, and frameworks.4
GitHired's listed customers include 10x, Binsr, Roam, and Matcap.3 On April 11, 2026, the company received seed funding at ASU's Venture Devils Demo Day, a bi-annual pitch competition distributing seed funding to student-founded companies.5 In April 2026, Bansal was accepted to Founders, Inc.'s Canopy Spring 2026 cohort, a five-week intensive program for early-stage builders at the Founders, Inc. campus in San Francisco.1