Shayaan Emran

Shayaan Emran
Occupation	Entrepreneur, software engineer
Known for	Co-founder of DeepGrove

Shayaan Emran is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of DeepGrove, a technology company developing frontier artificial intelligence capabilities for deployment on any device. DeepGrove was founded in 2025 and is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.

Early life and education

Emran has academic ties to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the College of William & Mary (W&M), as noted in his Y Combinator founder profile. He has published academic research, including a 2024 paper on climate-sensitive childhood diarrhea and social inequality in India, hosted on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). He has also been associated with research on intergenerational educational mobility and complementarities in parental investment published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. His technical skills include Python, Julia, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Career

Emran co-founded DeepGrove in 2025 alongside Edward Zhang. The company's stated mission is to bring "frontier intelligence" to any device, suggesting a focus on optimizing or compressing advanced AI models so they can run efficiently on a wide range of hardware, including resource-constrained devices.

DeepGrove was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2025 (S25) batch. As of mid-2025, the company had three employees and was based in San Francisco, California. The company has posted job listings for ML technical staff with compensation ranging from $100,000 to $350,000, indicating active recruitment of machine learning engineers.

Prior to founding DeepGrove, Emran's background spanned both academic research in economics and public health as well as technical work in machine learning and AI, as reflected in his published papers and his software portfolio on Devpost.