Priyansh Srivastava is Co-founder and CEO of Raven (YC S22), which builds AI for technical work in process plants. Raven serves chemical, petrochemical and fertilizer plants and the engineering teams that design and build them.

Priyansh studied at NIT Surat (B.Tech, 2010 to 2014) and earned a master's degree from Georgia Tech (2018 to 2020). He began as a software development engineer at Novell, then co-founded the salon booking platform your panache and built software at Noticeboard and apna.

Priyansh co-founded Raven with his brother Sriyansh, and the two bring software engineers and plant professionals together to build AI for process plants. He speaks publicly about how critical plant knowledge stays scattered across people, systems, technical documents and engineering drawings.

Raven started in 2021 as a single API for multi-channel product notifications and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch. Priyansh became CEO in 2024 as the company pivoted to industrial AI, backed by Y Combinator with roughly $1.4M reported raised.

Raven's Smart P&ID product turns scanned or CAD P&IDs into clickable, source-linked asset pages, and its Plant Workbench uses AI agents to draft work like isolations, permits and HAZOP pre-reads. The team has grown to 10+ people serving chemical, fertilizer and refining facilities.