Shikhar Agarwal

CEO

Miami, Florida, United States13 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with a strong focus on travel technology.

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AngularJSBig DataCC++CSSCloud ComputingDatabasesDistributed SystemsGlobal Distribution Systems (GDS)HBaseHTMLHadoopIATAJavaScriptLearning Quickly

About

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.

Experience

Stealth ai startup

Founder and CEO

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr

Cartesia

Investor

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr

Airial travel

Advisor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Helping build OpenAI for Travel Planning.

Nucleus ai

Advisor

Jul 2024Nov 2024 · 4 mos

  • Developing foundational LLMs aiming towards AGI. Just launched a 140 billion LLM for B2B with performance beating Open AI's GPT 4.

Devrev

Investor

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Fennel

Investor

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Acquired by Databricks

Multiple companies

Investor and Advisor

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Global

  • Advising and investing in multiple companies

Spotnana

2 roles

Co-Founder

Sep 2019Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote

Co-Founder and CPTO

Sep 2019Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote

  • Grew Spotnana from 0 to $1B Unicorn, with ~$200M raised and 300+ employees in 4 years.
  • Spotnana connected the most Direct/NDCs in the industry including Trainline, Marriott Direct Connect, Qantas connection to the PSS, AA, UA, BA, Lufthansa Group, Emirates, Copa airlines, etc. The TAAS platform powered Brex Travel, SMB Portals of Marriott and Qantas, TMCs like CWT and BCD, and corporate travel of Fortune 10 companies (Walmart, etc) and Meta.

Google

Google Brain - TensorFlow

May 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • One of the developers of TensorFlow. Worked with DeepMind, etc.
  • Side project: Developed Deep Learning/AI based Google Dance-Like app showcased in Google I/O Keynote 2019.

Gulukul

Founder and CEO

Jul 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Part-time Startup based on social impact. Raised money from Jyoti Bansal (Unusual Ventures/Big Labs) and Desh Deshpande.

Thoughtspot

Founding Engineer / Staff Engineer

Oct 2013Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Architected and developed ThoughtSpot's proprietary Database from scratch. This was similar to present day Snowflake, AWS RedShift and in-memory version of Google Spanner.
  • Patent: Search Engine for Information Retrieval System (US 20150026153).

Vmware

3 roles

MTS Developer

Promoted

Oct 2012Oct 2013 · 1 yr

  • Developed VMware Horizon (formerly called Horizon View) - the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product.

MTS Intern - London

Jul 2012Sep 2012 · 2 mos

  • In this 3 months internship at VMware's London Office, I worked on GemFire, which is a distributed data management platform offering dynamic replication, data partitioning techniques, continuous availability, high performance and linear scalability. My task was to investigate GemFire as a potential database backend for VMware View Event Management.

MTS Intern - Palo Alto

May 2011Jul 2011 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Developed Local Mode feature of VMware View (now Horizon). Local Mode feature lets a user to download his virtual machine on the local system and then sync up later with the central server. This is helpful when a user is going offline. I was involved in increasing the efficiency of the VM image transfer between the two systems.

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

Student Researcher Intern

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Worked with a PhD student on security of web browsers and built the tool SIFEX to check vulnerabilities in browser plugins. The tool ran on 2000 browser plugins parsing 3 million lines of code and detected several vulnerabilities.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

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