India-born founder Harshita Arora has made history by becoming a General Partner at Y Combinator. After being the YC’s youngest-ever visiting partner, she is now stepping into a full-time GP role, ready to help shape the next generation of startups.
Arora discovered coding when she was just 13 years old, and after two years, she dropped out of school to pursue a career in the field. When she was 16, she built a crypto portfolio management app that was featured by Apple and was later acquired.
In 2020, she received the Bal Shakti Puraskar, one of the India's highest honours for young achievers, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
She co-founded AtoB in 2019 with Vignan Velivela and Tushar Misra. According to an earlier Forbes report, the company was valued at approximately $800 million. Today, AtoB is a Series-C stage company building financial infrastructure for the trucking industry, serving over 30,000 fleets across the US.
Arora will work directly with YC founders, bringing deep fintech and infrastructure experience, a founder's instinct for product, and the perspective of someone who's been building companies since she was a teenager.
