Quantum Black, AI by McKinsey + Tech GTMIncoming FT in 2024

Backed by Lux Capital, Menlo Ventures

Acquired by Tata; backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Bill & Melina Gates FoundationPM for the pharmacy search product• Defined the product vision and strategy for the Search product at 1mg, a Sequoia backed digital health startup, by conducting 30+ user interviews, analyzing product data using SQL, and researching 20+ competitors• Identified an opportunity to improve conversion in the case of users misspelling medicines available on 1mg (10% of all queries) & increase annual sales by ~USD 1M; presented insights to stakeholders including the CTO• Led a team of 5 (3 engineers, 2 data scientists) to build a new approach to generate better spelling corrections; managed tradeoffs to avoid extensive engineering cost or expensive schema changes• Ran A/B tests, identified and measured performance metrics to iterate, & released feature to 100% of users

Our mission with AI@X is to build a community of students passionate about AI across the United States, and serve as the central place for the next generation of leaders in AI to collaborate, build relationships, and grow while learning from each other.AI@Penn: https://aipenn.org/AI@Columbia: https://aicolumbia.org/Interested in getting involved? Reach out at talreja@wharton.upenn.edu

Investments: Meddo, DocquityWorked on 2 investments [NDA]; built investment thesis, fundraising decks, developed social strategy, wrote about COVID's impact on Indian healthcare published in the Times of India

Cultivating a networked AI community @ Penn for 600+ members; launched AIHacks, Penn's largest student-run datathon with 150+ members across 30+ universities; launched AI Venture fellows program to connect students with high-growth startups on AI consulting projectsCurrently building AI@X -- stay tuned!

Unshackled Ventures backs immigrant founders at day 0—impressive people building revolutionary companies.Support investment team with sourcing, industry deep-dives, and due diligence of data and ML focused investmentsIf you are working on something interesting, reach out at akshat.talreja@unshackledvc.com

Lead data science consulting engagements with corporate clients. Previous clients include Neuroflow (Series B behavioral health startup), McDonalds, and Master Kong.

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Build graph-based user recommendation algorithm for social media product; Modelled churn [BG-NBD] and free-to-paying conversion [GBDT]

Built a supply chain optimisation product to automate inventory management, dispatch optimisation, & replenishment planning for clients

The RippleX Fellowship is powered by Ripple Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Toronto, Canada. This program teaches the intricacies of venture funds, startup operations, and financing to students across North America who are aspiring venture capitalists, founders, or employees at tech startups

Launched Udaipur's first child abuse reporting and donation pipeline in collaboration with Impetus; developed a web-platform for a rural NGO to source donations for annual women empowerment workshop; raised $5000+ from corporate CSRs over a month

Worked on models to automatically recognise celebrities in Hindi articles for a news recommendation engine [biLSTM, Word2Vec, ANNs]; developed data pipeline to automate training data generation