Shikhar Agarwal — CEO
Shikhar is a serial entrepreneur with his last company raising 170M+ at $1B valuation (Unicorn). He is an expert in all things AI, Cloud, and GTM motion for large enterprises. He founded the Travel tech startup Spotnana where he invented Travel-as-a-Service, an AI native infrastructure backbone for the travel industry, and fund raised from Iconiq, Durable, Madrona and Mubadala. Prior to that, he was one of the developers of TensorFlow, the leading open-source AI framework, as part of Google Brain AI team.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with a strong focus on travel technology.
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Experience: 13 yrs 6 mos
Career Highlights
- Raised over $170M for a Unicorn startup.
- Developed TensorFlow as part of Google Brain team.
- Invented Travel-as-a-Service for the travel industry.
Work Experience
Stealth AI Startup
Founder and CEO (1 yr)
Cartesia
Investor (1 yr)
Airial Travel
Advisor (1 yr 5 mos)
Nucleus AI
Advisor (4 mos)
DevRev
Investor (3 yrs 2 mos)
Fennel
Investor (3 yrs 6 mos)
Multiple companies
Investor and Advisor (6 yrs 2 mos)
Spotnana
Co-Founder (6 yrs 6 mos)
Co-Founder and CPTO (4 yrs 9 mos)
Google Brain - TensorFlow (1 yr 4 mos)
Gulukul
Founder and CEO (2 yrs)
ThoughtSpot
Founding Engineer / Staff Engineer (3 yrs 9 mos)
VMware
MTS Developer (1 yr)
MTS Intern - London (2 mos)
MTS Intern - Palo Alto (2 mos)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Student Researcher Intern (2 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi