Saksham Aggarwal
Saksham Aggarwal is an entrepreneur who founded Cardboard, an AI video editing startup that joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 batch, and serves as its CEO.
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Key facts
2025Founding Cardboard
Cardboard was founded in 2025 and is based in Bengaluru, India; he co-founded it with Ishan SharmaIshan SharmaSoftware engineer and co-founder and CTO of Cardboard.Open the full entry, with himself as CEO and Ishan Sharma as CTO.[1][2]
According to their launch post, the two have known each other since middle school.[3]
February 2026Launching on Y Combinator
On February 3, 2026, Cardboard published a launch post on Y Combinator’s platform, saying the team was building an agentic video editor that runs in the browser, where users can ask in natural language for a first cut or for footage to be cut into ads.[3]
As of October 2026: CEO of Cardboard
Education and Early Career
According to Y Combinator’s founder bio, he studied computer science at BITS Pilani, previously built AI products at Iterate AI, a startup backed by Entrepreneur First, was the first engineer at PYOR, and worked in growth at Flint.[1]
The bio also says he has published at ACL and has spoken internationally on AI evaluations.[1]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Cardboard: Official website: https://cardboard.ai (opens in a new window)[1]
Cardboard: Official account: https://x.com/usecardboard (opens in a new window)[4][2]
X: Public account: https://x.com/sxmawl (opens in a new window)[2]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sakshamagg27 (opens in a new window)[2][3]