MD Fazal Mustafa

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded and scaled multiple successful startups.
  • Expert in AI with 30+ models built in NLP and Computer Vision.
  • Led product development and fundraising efforts for tech startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with expertise in AI-driven solutions and product management.

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AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Augmented Reality (AR)BootstrapBusiness AnalyticsC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Computer VisionDartData AnalysisData AnalyticsData ScienceData StructuresDeep Learning

About

Hi everyone I am Fazal:- I was born & brought up in Kolkata. I wrote my first code at the age of 5 and made a square using Logo. Looking at the turtle move with each line of my code was so fascinating. Computer practical class became my favorite class in school. At the age of 13 in 7th std, I got my first computer at home, by this time I was already aware of Logo, Q Basic, and had started learning Java. A computer with a LAN internet connection I got myself into torrents. And started my hustle of selling movies & games in my class. This was my second hustle though, the first one being selling expensive pens at second-hand rates in the fourth standard. After the 10th std, I took Biology & not CS because CS was something that I was confident in and could study on my own. A decision that would help me a lot 7 years later. So I prepared for medical science. I cracked both Medical Exam called NEET(UG) & Engineering Exam called WBJEE. I choose engineering as I liked to experiment and tinker with stuff a lot & also discovered that I am not very good at rote learning. Based on my rank I went to IT Dept at the Heritage Institute of Technology at Kolkata(HITK). Just after my first semester, I started looking for work. I got a front-end engineer intern role at LWT Academy. I revamped their whole product. I got my 2nd intern role at Wholmeal where I did everything including fundraising. After that in Jan 2020, I started up Collegeshala, we got funded with $250K in Nov 2020, and we got 32K+ students, 500+ professors. We were India’s First faculty-driven University specific notes marketplace for Undergraduate academic degree courses. In Aug 2021 we got acquired by Lecturenotes, a leader in this sector. We were onboarded as Co-founders of Lecturenotes because of our contributions. There I was responsible for increasing the product portfolio from 1 to 3, updating the entire tech stack & building tools & systems for the internal organization for efficient content operations, scaling users from 300k to 2.2+ Million students, 50K professors, 10K Colleges, and raising a pre-series round of $2.5 Million. On the side, I have been learning & working on AI since late 2019. I have built at least 30+ AI models in the field of NLP, Computer Vision, and Autonomous systems. I also do research work. Within College, I started Google Developer Student Community and scaled it to 1200+ members under my leadership. I stepped down from Lecturenotes in March 2023 after fulfilling my lockin and all responsibilities to start up again, which currently is in stealth mode.

Experience

Heva ai

Founder & CEO

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · On-site

  • We’re an Applied AI Research Lab working on accelerating civilization. A lot more update to come.

Self-employed

2 roles

Self-Directed R&D

Nov 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

  • I did independent Research work across Neuro, Vision, and Materials. :
  • Diagnosing Neurological disorders like Epilepsy, parkinson with just raw EEG data in seconds. We achieve accuracy as high as 99.5%.
  • Image Vectorization Using CLIP for Integration with Large Language Models: A Novel Approach to Enhancing Memorization.[Soon to be published]
  • Machine Learning-Driven Prediction and Simulation of Crystalline Structures for Advanced Ballistic Protection.[Soon to be published]

Consultant

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Remote

  • I consulted the following startups:
  • Mechanify : Insuring the 2nd life of EVs
  • Upraised : AI powered solution to assess talent (Acquired)
  • HexStar Universe : Full-Stack Space Edtech Platform.
  • Stealth : Leveraging business data to automate Ops, strategies, etc.
  • Stealth : Innovating Defense for modern combat dynamics.

Associated innovators

Technology Consultant

Sep 2023Oct 2023 · 1 mo · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Remote

  • At Associated Innovators, I am building their whole LP system and Portfolio Management system so as to be used by Investors like Suraj Juneja, Mahavir Sharma, Suniel Shetty, etc, to keep accountability of their portfolio startups.

Freeflow ventures

Technology Consultant

May 2023Sep 2023 · 4 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Remote

  • I was Part-time Consulting on tech-related projects.
  • I was part of ideating solutions for the implementation of AI-related solutions in a Shrimp factory and for its supply chain. It was the biggest shrimp company in India doing north of Rs 2000 Crores a year.
  • I led the tech due diligence on a London-based deep tech startup who are engaged in transforming the fashion industry and counts Zara, LVMH, and other Fortune 100 companies as their clients.

Sconto

Investment Consultant

May 2023Jun 2023 · 1 mo · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Remote

  • I was hired on a contractual basis to help Sconto raise its funds. I helped them by introducing them to 30+ VCs across India. Out of which I got them on call with 10+ VCs.

Lecturenotes technologies

3 roles

Founder

Mar 2023Mar 2023 · 0 mo

  • Stepped down from an active role.

Founder & Head of New Initiatives

Jan 2023Mar 2023 · 2 mos

  • Responsible for developing the LectureRooms product from scratch, a new vertical of Lecturenotes.
  • Completely responsible for the P&L Sheet, Tech, Product, Marketing, Business, Sales & recruitment activity for this vertical.

Founder, Head of Product & Business

Jun 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Was named Co-Founder of the company post Acquisition because of my contributions.
  • Headed the Product team for the Lecturenotes platform deployment & completely revamped the existing product modules both from a product & tech point of view.
  • Was Instrumental in drastically reducing the Tech & Infra cost while maintaining the smooth functioning of the platform.
  • Co-ordinated every product requirement and aligned it with the business too. While also having a co-ordination channel with the marketing & sales team in order to keep track of the overall cost. Made sure that the product always remained in unison with the business plan.
  • Here also I was part of the team that helped in raising $2.5 Million in Pre-Series A Funding.

Audifie

Founder & CEO

Feb 2021Apr 2021 · 2 mos

  • We created Audifie so that users can listen to their documents. In early 2021, this was a unique achievement. But we were way ahead of our time; the tech cost just didn’t make sense. This is the pre-Gen AI era, where converting text to voice for 1Mn characters used to cost $16. So we had to shut the product down.

Collegeshala (edutech)

Founder, CBO & CPO

Dec 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal · On-site

  • Ideated, conceptualized & developed India’s First faculty-driven University specific notes marketplace for Undergraduate academic degree courses. The development team was of only 3 people including me. And we rolled out the MVP in just 25 days.
  • Co-ordinated with the Growth & Marketing Teams for successful Go-To-Market deployment of the product.
  • Helped to scale the product so as to sustain the usage of the platform by 1 lakh+ student users across 15 Universities.
  • Was Instrumental in raising a seed fund of $250K from an Angel Investor for further growth
  • Our company was later acquired by LectureNotes Technologies in August 2021 in a multi million-dollar deal.

Self-employed

Freelance

Sep 2019Apr 2020 · 7 mos

  • I did freelance work for 2 startups -
  • 1. Pseudo-Lidar cloud point data Project - Created a model that turns a 2D image into a 3D image and then does depth estimation. After doing that every pixel in the 3D image is replaced by a point thus providing 3D cloud point data without using lidar in any manner. This is huge in terms of Cost saving as good Lidars by companies like Velodyne cost up to $20,000.
  • 2. Face landmark detection - created a model using Keras & OpenCV with an accuracy of 94.4% tat helped in detecting Facial Landmarks like Cheek, Ear, Tongue, etc, and thus can be used to superimpose with stickers, emojis, etc.

Wholmeal

Android Developer & Operations

Sep 2019Nov 2019 · 2 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal

  • Worked on their mobile app both Frontend using Flutter and Backend using Firebase & AWS.
  • Post-launch the app garnered over 25k+ downloads in a month and through this app the company raked in 10 lakhs of revenue.
  • That helped the startup to raise funds of Rs 40 lakhs.
  • After the 2 founders, I was the third guy in their startup. Helped them to set up processes & Ops with delivery agents, cooks, and delivery timelines.
  • I helped them with all sorts of strategies regarding Products, Go-To-Market plans, Marketing & Outreach activities, etc.

Lwt academy

Full- Stack Web Developer

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

  • Designed a new UI UX for the existing website.
  • Worked on revamping their existing Product, which was the website. The stack used was MERN.
  • Made the whole website SEO-friendly by doing on-page and off-page SEO.
  • Skills used - HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Node, MongoDB, Express, Figma, AWS, SEO Tools.

Education

Heritage Institute of Technology

IT — Information Technology

Coursera

Saifee Golden Jubilee English Public School

Higher Secondary — Science

Jan 2010Jan 2017

Albany Hall Public School

Jan 2009Jan 2010

ST Laetitia's School

Primary School

Jan 2002Jan 2009

Udacity

Cloud | Artificial Intelligence | Autonomous Systems | Data Science

Jan 2018Present

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