Aku Aakriti's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Super Woman's Group Organizer for IBM Watson Health HQ - Cambridge @ IBM Super Women’s group organizer for IBM Watson Health Headquarters & the key initiator of channelizing growth for women. Involved in a broad spectrum of activities focused on mentorship and career development. From May 2015 to November 2016 (1 year 7 months) IBM Watson Health HQ - CambridgeFounder of AI Amalgamators - Microsoft for Startups @ Microsoft Launched VC Council of 100+ VCs with Microsoft for Startups: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/09/27/ai-corporates-startups-and-venture/#3093cdc27921 From 2019 to 2019 (less than a year) Partner, CTO @ AI Venture Amalgamators (Bridging the gap between VC, Startups & Corporates) Consulting practice for Technical Evaluation & Business Development with a focus on Enterprise AI Startups. Worked with Adeptmind, Vectice, Microsoft for Startups and many others. Advised startup founders such as Ideaflow, H2O.ai (raised $151M from Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA GPU Ventures), Skymind/Pathmind, Vectice, Adeptmind, CyCognito (Lightspeed, Sorenson, Accel Funded), PerceptiLabs, Lexi, ModuleQ, Forethought and others. Host of Venture Capital "Investing in Startups" Expert Networks which was sponsored by Google, SVB and Salesforce. Tweets by 500 Startups, Salesforce Ventures, Greylock, SVB, Heidi Roizen. San Francisco Bay AreaAI BD Independent Consultant for Portfolio Companies via AI Venture Amalgamators @ Neotribe Ventures Neotribe Ventures (Fund 1: $140M and Fund 2: $216M) invests in Seed and Series A startups. The focus is on entrepreneurs solving hard problems. It was founded by ex-NEA GP, ex-Robinhood Board Member. Areas of investment include:AIClimate TechBioTechRobotics Advising Vendia Female Founder Shruthi Rao (ex-AWS Exec) - Vendia is founded by AWS Lambda Inventor @ Vendia Vendia has $5.1M in funding. Advising female founder Shruthi Rao (an immigrant, mother to a 5-year-old). During a time when many startups have been struggling due to COVID-19, Shruthi decided to leave her prestigious and highly visible role at Amazon to launch Vendia with co-founder Tim Wagner, who invented AWS Lambda (Tim Wagner is known as the Father of Serverless at Amazon and was formerly VP of Engineering at Coinbase). Vendia will help customers leverage business data across companies, departments, and clouds, in real-time to help increase the return on investment (ROI). Advising AI Startup working with Founder & CEO Cyril Brignone @ Vectice Advised Founder & CEO Cyril Brignone on business development, strategic partnerships & fundraising: See CEO & founder Cyril Brignone's recommendation Advising Founder & CEO Monica Berrondo (YC Company) @ Macromoltek Inc. Macromeltek is a YCombinator company that raised $2.8M from Data Collective Bio, Neotribe Ventures (founded by NEA GP & Healtheon/WebMD founder) and (plus an additional $1.2M in non-dilutive NSF grants). The founder Dr. Monica is an accomplished scientist with several patents in addition to a P.h.D in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Forbes 30 Under 30 & Women in AI Advocate @ Forbes Advising MIT Founder/CEO on operations & strategic partnerships @ Ideaflow Inc. Ideaflow is creating an ecosystem for humans and machines to work together to solve the world’s most important problems – starting with a notebook that augments your intelligence: https://www.ideaflow.io San Francisco Bay AreaAdvising Founder/CEO on strategic partnerships @ Dacast Video Streaming Company bootstrapped with $7.5M in revenue in 2021 & $4.5M in 2020. Dacast Acquired Vzaar (UK) From 2020 to 2020 (less than a year) Co-Founder of AI Expert Networks @ COGNITIVE WORLD https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/#77577db1729aAI Think Tank with 70+ Forbes contributors.Think Tank: www.cognitiveworld.com From 2019 to 2020 (1 year) Advising the Maluuba CEO/Founder with Richard Ling (former GP - VC) @ Adeptmind Founded by Serial Entrepreneurs (Maluuba was acquired by Microsoft for $140M) and is one of the first NLP startups ever. From 2019 to 2020 (1 year) Advising Founder @ Turnout (https://turnout.events/) Advising CEO & Founder Tom Bachant - serial entrepreneur whose prior company was acquired by Dashride: https://www.forbes.com/profile/dashride-acquired-by-cruise/#28bfa1663094 From 2019 to 2020 (1 year) Advised Founder of a Lightspeed funded company) @ Lightspeed Funded Company Advised founder on strategic partnerships From 2019 to 2020 (1 year) Principal (AI Consultant) via AI Venture Amalgamators LLC - Temporary Contract @ VC Fund of $120M Under Management VC Fund of $120M Under Management From 2019 to 2019 (less than a year) Advising on marketing & partnerships (with Founder/CEO & CMO) @ H2O.ai https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/11/07/goldman-sachs-nationwide-and-more-highlight-benefits-of-ai-at-h2o-world-new-york/?sh=3c18f18c4b86Partnership with Microsoft From 2019 to 2019 (less than a year) Advised Founder Chris Nicholson on strategic partnership with NVIDIA @ Skymind See Chris Nicholson's recommendation Letter Below From 2019 to 2019 (less than a year) AI: Startups & NVIDIA Partnership @ NetApp Worked with startups like H2O.ai and others as a part of an AI accelerator and managed strategic partnerships with NVIDIA From 2018 to 2019 (1 year) AI PM for Red Hat & IBM Watson @ IBM From January 2014 to December 2018 (5 years) United StatesCore Committee @ IBM Core Committee member for the Watson Health Headquarters. From January 2015 to November 2018 (3 years 11 months) United StatesData Scientist & Product Manager (AI ML Natural Language Processing) @ IBM IBM Watson Competition Finalist 2014 9 top tier Universities including Stanford, CMU, UC -Berkeley, UT –Austin and others competed for a $100,000 reward to release a project globally.• “You Do U” : #WatsonUnivComp http://bit.ly/1Is1xEr Placed 1st at the IBM Watson Competition held at the OSU and was chosen to represent the university at the NYC Finals. • Successfully pitched executives to evangelize & launch product to OSU and plan to expand it to the top 10 US universities and Desire2Learn which finances approx. $85 Million and caters to over 750 institutions with over 10 million users. From 2015 to January 2015 (less than a year) Columbus, Ohio AreaContributing Guest Writer (Part-time) @ VentureBeat From 2013 to 2014 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineering & Investor Relations (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Alma Mater) @ The D. E. Shaw Group Worked for D. E. Shaw & Co. is where Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos was before he started Amazon. It has delivered the fifth-highest returns of any hedge fund in the world since inception. From 2012 to 2014 (2 years)