Vikram Aditya

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India8 yrs 4 mos experience
AI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in navigating complex product landscapes.
  • Proven track record in angel investing.
  • Strong background in B2B SaaS and AI opportunities.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B SaaS and AI product expert with a strong entrepreneurial background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness-to-business (b2b)EntrepreneurshipAngel InvestingBlockchainGrowth StrategiesProduct DesignTeam LeadershipAnalyticsUser ExperienceDesign Frameworks

Other Skills

Adobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business Intelligence (BI)CHTMLHealth & WellnessHuman Computer InteractionLeadershipMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft WordResearchStorytellinggtm

About

Raised in a traditional Gurukul by monks → went to IIT Guwahati → building companies that matter. I truly believe life is too short to do small things. So whatever I work on, I make sure it shoots for the moon, even if it results in spectacular failure one after the other. I don't like ceilings if the ceiling doesn't move with me. I've only done B2B SAAS and enterprise tech. Currently obsessing over how this opportunity in AI we have will never probably repeat in our lifetimes. I've spent years on ground in the US doing GTM. With Crunch, I was telling stories (I'm decently good at this) to enterprise buyers, across industries, numerous US cities and largely figuring out how to get past security → get into a paid pilot → close the deal. I often go-down rabbit holes to learn things. I'm the kind of person who takes 6 month journeys across 12 countries to quench curiosity. I'm the guy who shows up in inbox of people that most would hesitate in messaging. I saw my responsibilities change 14 times in 4 years and learnt to wing it. I've walked into angry rooms and walked out with million-dollar cheques. I've failed more than I can count. I've worked on product where all you have is a two word phrase as inspiration. Somewhere in the process, I became a part-time angel investor. I often write about founder life, AI product taste, and US GTM dos and donts mostly from experience. Previously founded DaoLens ($5M raised) and Crunch (analytics co-pilot). I thrive with people who push boundaries. Formerly, I was Sr. Director of Product Design at Sprinklr (pre-IPO) working with clients like McDonald's, Disney, Nike. In between I was heading the product at Merkle Science (crypto forensics). I Started my career as a designer, evolved into product then growth and then GTM strategy. I have a playbook for practically everything: how I operate, how I think, how I hire, how I see myself doing my job - things that I share with people who work with me. Most of this is because of my Gurukul, and I think that part has never left me. So, when I am working at a place where the odds are stacked against me, the perks are not the tastiest, the customer is not behaving the way they should or the CEO shared a thick book as the source of inspiration for a product you have to build within 48 hours, or scenarios where you have been asked to redo entire billion-dollar product lines with a new lens, I find myself smiling. In short, I'm good at handling crazy, steering in uncharted territories and have an unusually high risk appetite.

Experience

Forbes technology council

Member

Feb 2024Jan 2025 · 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Member of the esteemed Forbes Technology Council. This membership allows limited qualified folks to share the most advanced technological advancements with other esteemed council members.

Crunch

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jun 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

  • Crunch was a co-pilot for business leaders, providing advanced data science capabilities to everyone at their fingertips without any leader ever having to depend on a data expert.
Business-to-Business (B2B)Product ManagementAnalytics

Pavilion

Member

Jun 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Pavilion is the world's largest private community for go-to-market leaders. Over 10,000 professionals use Pavilion to grow their network, sharpen their skills, and develop life-long connections.

The gtm circle

Member

May 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • The GTM Circle is a members-only group for startup execs in the US & Canada.

Daolens (now crunch)

Co-Founder and CEO

Dec 2021May 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

  • DaoLens was all about building the infrastructure for a Web3 world to operate. With decentralization, every single activity that we take for granted in a traditional org, such as where we discuss, how we even get onboarded, how we train, how we get paid, how we decide, how we align between tasks etc., all need to be reimagined as in the world of cryptocurrencies, tokens and on-chain credentials (NFTs are also another form of token) decide your access, your reputation, your reliability.
  • The core product DAO Maneger took care of different aspects of the DAO Lifecycle, such as discussion, voting, proposal management, event management, courses, payouts, task management and so on. On top, DAO Manager enables people to handle Sub-DAOs. The DAO Manager came with an AI assistant called Robin, making it easier for newcomers to understand things. For example, when a new proposal was being drafted, Robin would highlight all similar proposals in the past along with the general sentiments of the community, handle real-time translations, act as your AI assistant and help with strategy and task automations for global members to operate.
Angel InvestingEntrepreneurship

Personal angel investments

Angel Investor

Jul 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Betr - Series A+. Sports/fantasy betting. Dec 2024.
  • Biofire - Series A. Personalized smart firearms. May 2024.
  • Ori - Seed+. UK GPU cloud-as-a-service. May 2024.
  • Twelve Labs - Series A. AI video foundation model. Apr 2024.
  • Etched - Series A. AI chips & semiconductors. Mar 2024.
  • Perplexity - Secondary. AI search engine. Feb 2024.
  • Stability AI - Series A. Maker of Stable Diffusion, Dance Diffusion. Nov 2023.
  • Open AI - Secondary. Company behind ChatGPT. Oct 2023.
  • Paradromics - Series A. High-data-rate BCI. Sept 2023.
  • Circle - Secondary. Company behind USDC. Sept 2023.
  • Caspar AI - Seed+. AI for senior-care facility ops. Sept 2023.
  • Impulse Space - Series A. In-space propulsion for payload delivery. Aug 2023.
  • Dgraph Labs - Seed. Graph database tech. Aug 2023.
  • Stellar Sleep - Seed. Duolingo-style insomnia therapy. Aug 2023.
  • Rain - Series A. Next-gen GPUs to cut AI cost. Jul 2023.
  • Neuralink - Series D+. Implantable BMIs. Jul 2023.
  • Postman - Secondary. API platform. Jul 2023.
  • Cohere - Series C. Interactive AI for enterprises. Jul 2023.
  • Being - Seed. Mental health, fitness, well-being. Jan 2023.
  • Conjure Games - Seed. Next-gen gaming. Dec 2022.
  • Leap Club - Series A. Community-led professional network for women. Nov 2022.
  • LootMogul - Series A. Metaverse AI gaming & digital collectibles. Oct 2022.
  • Glip - Seed+. Web3 gaming community; play-to-earn rewards. Jul 2022.
  • Hyperface - Seed. Credit-card infrastructure. Jun 2022.
  • Truly Madly - Seed+. Online dating & matchmaking. Jun 2022.
  • Spark Studio - Seed. Online learning for kids. May 2022.
  • Smartcue - Seed. No-code demo SaaS for GTM. May 2022.
  • GrowthX - Seed. India’s growth community. Mar 2022.
  • Decipher Health - Seed. Tackling India’s diabetes burden. Oct 2021.
  • Gumroad - Crowdfunding. Empowering solopreneurs online. Jul 2021.

Merkle science

AVP of Product

Mar 2021Sep 2021 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • I worked with the CEO's and the CTO's office to overlook product management, roadmap, strategy, product growth, product design. My roles involved heavy collaboration with the sales and marketing team to overlook expansion in the European and North American markets in addition to Singapore. I worked extensively to expand to digital asset coverage, revamp of existing investigation tool, the launch of case management tool, segregation of MS Lite and validation of the first version of the product focusing on The Crypto Travel Rule.
Product ManagementBlockchain

Sprinklr

5 roles

Senior Design Director

Nov 2020Jan 2021 · 2 mos

  • Established the base of Growth Design Function over the next year. Focussed on ROI of Design and Integration of Growth Loops in the Product Life-cycle. On the side, we scaled team across India and Portland, Establishing Processes, Strengthening Culture and Mentoring Folks working across Products Suites at Sprinklr.
Product ManagementGrowth Strategies

Associate Director, Design

Apr 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • I directly supervised designs for Digital Care, Social Advertising, Listening & Analytics, Sprinklr Lite and Sprinklr Mobile. We introduced Virality across all modules and entities in Sprinklr with the idea of facilitating collaboration and external share. As a team, we also handled the post-acquisition merger of Nanigans into our Advertising Vertical leading to a complete revamps of Ads Composer and Ads Manager used by over 100 high-value clients. We further strengthened AI coupling across products. I led multiple global roadshows, and we conducted Global PHI (Product Happiness Index) Surveys. The roadshow and PHI Survey also kickstarted a Growth Stream which resulted in visiting aspects like onboarding framework, email-based on usages and stages in the user journey, Growth App for on-the-go use cases etc. The app finally was launched in the mid of 2020.
  • Towards early 2020, I was briefly a part of the team collaborating with a global organization to combat Covid-Crisis through early detection, flagging, use of AI on social messages and through our powerful dashboards. In addition, I was directly involved in conceptualizing the use of voice in our Care Agent co sole and introducing features like Guided Path and Screen-Builders. We also rolled out the Media Insights Product globally and in close collaboration with the C-suite at HSBC. Other modules, like Smart Theme Explorer, were born. On the side, we were scaling rapidly. The team was heads-down on launching a new Design System, The platform-wide Dark Mode, Sprinklr Design Website (https://sprinklr.design/). I also established the New Member Experience Framework in this role. Towards the very end, my team worked on Modern Research Forrester Wave 2020, where Sprinklr emerged as a leader.
Product DesignTeam Leadership

Lead Product Designer

Promoted

Nov 2018Mar 2019 · 4 mos

  • I Led the product merger of NewBrand (acquired earlier) into Sprinklr's Location Insights. The project was carried out in collaboration with Global Clients like P&G, McDonald's, Hyatt etc. I also Established Frameworks and Guidebooks around Mentorship and Internship Experience. Conceptualized Widget and Dashboard Libraries. I started leading Sprinklr Modern Research (Social Listening and Analytics) and Modern Advertising Vertical from the Design Front. On the side, the team was working on integrating AI layers across products suites including Research and Advertising.
Product DesignAnalytics

Senior Product Designer

Apr 2018Oct 2018 · 6 mos

  • Conceptualized and Led Sprinklr Privacy Module in accordance with GDPR Regulation. Briefly Handled Product Enhancement for Scup (Acquired by Sprinklr in LATAM), Led the Designs for Self4Society which was ultimately launched by PM Modi in a nation-wide townhall with IT Leaders and professionals.
Product DesignUser Experience

UX Designer

Jun 2017Mar 2018 · 9 mos

  • Revisited the hiring process in the very first six months and came up with a Hiring Framework which we follow till date. That also led me to early exposure towards hiring the nest set of employees in the design team. I worked on Next-Gen products under the Incubation Stream. These products are generally independent of specific product verticals. I got the opportunity to collaborate with clients like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin to define products around Video Marketing and Audience Insights. I also worked with Redbull around Asset Management and De-Duplication. I led Designs for DMP, which stands as the core module for audience segmentation and creation across Sprinklr product lines even today. Led the design for Modern Research Forrester Wave in early 2018 with Sprinklr emerging as the leader. I worked on the post-acquisition product merger of 'Little Bird' to come up with the first version of Influencer Marketing Offering at Sprinklr.
Product DesignUser Experience

Infosys

Design Intern: Instep Global Internship Program

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India

  • I worked with the Corporate Design Group at Infosys. This Instep Program invites a total of 60+ interns, 16 interns from 8 older IITs in India along with over 45+ interns from universities worldwide.

Supply ocean

Remote Design Intern

Jan 2016Apr 2016 · 3 mos · Los Angeles, California

  • Worked Remotely on a thorough redesign of the ios based mobile application

Indian institute of technology, guwahati

2 roles

Convener, Techniche

Promoted

Oct 2015Oct 2016 · 1 yr

  • Overall Coordinator of IIT Guwahati's Annual Techno-Management fest, Techniche for it's 2016 edition with an annual budget of around 10 Milllion Rupees.
User ExperienceDesign Frameworks

Core Team Member and Module Head in Techniche

Oct 2014Sep 2015 · 11 mos

  • Headed a team of 7 people to organize one of the biggest lecture Series of the nation with control and full management of the pronites during Techniche.

Cobalt.io

Graphic Design Remote Intern

Jun 2015Jul 2015 · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Worked remotely on the official presentations and website related to the San Fransico based bug bounty program related startup.

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

USID Gurukul Winter Internship

Dec 2014Dec 2014 · 0 mo

  • Worked with 28 disciples to participate in first an online and then an onsite Gurukul working under under the mentorship of eminent academicians, researchers and experienced practitioners (Gurus) representing a variety of institutes, organizations, NGO's and industry domains.

Interface sense consulting

UI/UX Summer Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai

  • Worked on several UX projects for Android, iPhone applications, websites for clients like Trendin.com,Cipla,Countryside etc. Participated in heuristic evaluation of various applications and websites.Worked with developers and delivered applications, wireframes and websites in stringent time frames.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Design — Design

Jan 2013Jan 2017

Progressive Central High School

Higher Secondary Schooling

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar

Secondary Schooling — Science

Jan 2005Jan 2010

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