Aakriti was most recently a Principal at Workday. She worked with the General Catalyst Managing Director/ex - CTO of Dropbox via sourcing deals. She has driven value through customer and strategic partnerships. She started career at the Wall Street firm D.E.Shaw & Co. and Deloitte.
She is a founding AI team member at Red Hat, IBM Watson & NetApp where she worked for 7+ years. She launched Red Hat Venture Incubator with Head of AI/ML & Intelligent Edge of Red Hat.
She has advised founders of startups such as Vendia, Credo.ai, Vectice, H2O.ai (a startup funded by Goldman Sachs) & others.
She founded AI Amalgamators with Microsoft for Startups to connect startups to corporates. Launched “Investing in Startups & Identifying the Rocketship Summit” sponsored by Google, SVB & Salesforce featuring the Forbes VC Midas List Editor and GPs from Silicon VC firms.
She sourced deals for Sorenson Ventures, Lightspeed, NEA, Data Collective, Norwest Venture Partners, Mayfield, Greylock and others. She is a mentor for accelerators such as Acceleprise and Alchemist Accelerator.
She is featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 List, Nasdaq’s Leading Women in AI, Forbes Women in AI List and VentureBeat Women in AI Awards Finalist for 2020. As an advocate for women, contributed articles to Forbes and VentureBeat. (co-founder of blog see: AI Group on Forbes).
MS in Computer Science with a specialization in AI and Bachelors of Engineering in Info Sc from RVCE in addition to an executive management at Kellogg School of Management. United States awarded her the EB1 greencard based on extraordinary abilities in AI.