Hina Dixit

Founder

Cupertino, California, United States14 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Founder & CEO of pioneering AI company Decompute.
  • Led strategic AI investments at Microsoft and Samsung.
  • Recognized thought leader and speaker in AI and infrastructure.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and infrastructure investment with extensive technical expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)LeadershipProduct Management

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroidAngularJSApache SparkBusiness StrategyCC++CocoaCompetitive AnalysisComputer NetworkingComputer VisionConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Corporate FinanceDeep LearningDesign Patterns

About

Hina Dixit is the Founder & CEO of Decompute, a company pioneering AI for decentralized, high-performance infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience at the forefront of venture capital, software engineering and AI innovation, Hina is a recognized leader driving the future of intelligent systems. Before founding Decompute, Hina was a Partner at Microsoft’s venture arm, where she led strategic investments in AI and Infrastructure, backing transformative companies shaping the edge of innovation. Prior to Microsoft, she led AI investments at Samsung Next, where she invested in over 10 high-impact startups. Hina’s investments include multiple unicorns and 6+ successful exits. Her portfolio includes standout companies such as MosaicML (acquired by Databricks), Stability AI, Dynamo AI, and Space & Time. Earlier in her career, Hina spent nearly a decade at Apple, where she led engineering teams across Security, iCloud, AI, Developer Tools, and Data Integrity. As a senior technical leader and Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) on mission-critical initiatives, she drove cross-functional innovation and holds multiple patents for her contributions at Apple and Decompute. Hina is widely regarded as a thought leader in the AI and infrastructure space. She is a sought-after speaker at global conferences, including the World Summit AI, AI4, and the Global Artificial Intelligence Conference, and has been featured on influential podcasts like AI and the Future of Work and Me, Myself & AI. A proven investor, operator, and technologist, Hina brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise, business skills and visionary leadership. She continues to shape the future of AI through her work at Decompute and across the broader tech ecosystem.

Experience

Inwise.ai

Advisor

May 2025Present · 10 mos

  • Inwise AI is a dynamic AI CRM that uses a built-in truth discovery system to unify fragmented customer data into a trusted, single view — even when it comes from inconsistent or unreliable sources like old sales spreadsheets, form submissions, or third-party enrichers

Decompute

CEO & Founder

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Decompute is the first company in the world to fine-tune powerful AI models locally on as little as 1 GB of VRAM (Checkout our latest blog on AtlasTune). Our flagship platform, BlackBird, lets users build fully on-device AI agents, already downloaded over 20K+ times in its first week—specialized in finance, legal, coding, voice, image generation and beyond.
  • We outperformed cloud-first players like Perplexity and Julius in complex, multimodal, long-form document analysis—while running entirely offline on a Mac Air using our own proprietary models. Our model footprint scales down to just 350M parameters, surpassing Phi and others, and runs efficiently on both CPUs and GPUs.
  • Enterprise edition available now. Contact us for your on-prem/on-device AI needs.
EntrepreneurshipArtificial Intelligence (AI)StartupsLeadership

Synthlabs

Investor / Board Observer

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Mogul

Angel Investor

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • I invested in Mogul to support diversity and inclusion in hiring process. Being a woman of color, I feel more representation is needed for women in executive level positions.

Thred

Advisor

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Microsoft

Partner - AI & Infrastructure Investments

Jul 2023Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Hina was a partner at Microsoft in San Francisco, where she invested in primarily in AI along with Infrastructure.

Incorta

Board Observer

Jul 2023Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Venture CapitalStartupsLeadership

Unify

Seed Investor

Apr 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Twelvelabs

Investor

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Mutableai

Angel Investor

Sep 2022Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • MutableAl (acquired by Google Deepmind) is an Al developer tool with Copilot-like autocomplete, documentation writer, code refactorer and you can even give the Al instructions to edit your code directly!

Mahila money

Seed Investor

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Mahila Money aims in making women financially independent by providing micro loans to female entrepreneurs in India.
Startups

Dynamofl

Seed Investor

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs

  • DynamoFL simplifies model training across privacy-critical datasets using Federated Learning and Differential Privacy.

Aryahi inc.

2 roles

Board Member

Promoted

Feb 2022Feb 2025 · 3 yrs

  • Acquired.

Angel Investor

Feb 2020Feb 2025 · 5 yrs

  • Acquired.

Stability ai

Seed Investor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Stability Al (Unicorn) is building open Al tools that will let us reach our potential. Designing and implementing solutions using collective intelligence and augmented technology.

Space and time

Seed Investor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale.

Integral ai

Investor, Pre-Seed

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Integral AI focuses on research & developing ML technologies, such as self-supervised learning & learning from play, that build dynamical models of the world and how various tasks are done by people.

Docugami

Investor - Series A

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Docugami has a proprietary business LLM that can generate long form business and legal documents, also surfacing business facts and reports by generating reports, excel, etc fine tuned for on-prem data in minutes.

Masterful ai

Investor

Jan 2022Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

  • (Acquired by Moloco) Masterful gives Al superpowers to ecommerce merchants.
  • Tell a more vivid story about your products using Generative Al and drive more sales. Masterful uses computer vision and generative Al to create highly targeted social posts from your product catalog to increase sales. Just drag and drop your product image into an inspiration image, and Masterful does the rest to create beautiful images and copy, in your brand's visual style and language. Sellers can publish content in seconds as social posts to reach and convert their target audiences.

Samsung research america (sra)

Lead AI Investor

Jan 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · United States

  • Hina currently heads AI investments at SamsungNext and also focuses on the Metaverse.
  • She has lead investment in 12+ AI, Infra, Web3 & FinTech companies building the strongest pipeline for AI & Infrastructure from the scratch, by drafting investment thesis in the AI, Infrastructure & Gaming space. Within a year and a half, she had 4 successful exists and led many business collaboration efforts with AI start up and Samsung under EVP David Lee for the office of CEO, CFO & Head of AI (Samsung).
Startups

Mosaicml

Investor - Series B

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr

  • Acquired by Databricks, with a successful unicorn exit. MosaicML focuses on fully managed infrastructure and software tools lets you train large-scale machine learning models using your own data.
EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyStrategic PartnershipsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Venture CapitalStartups+3

Apple

2 roles

Software Engineering Leader

Promoted

Oct 2016Jan 2022 · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • People Management, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Full Stack, Apps/Framework Development
  • Hina & her team worked on Xcode features, along with projects focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Backend Engineering & UIKit. Hina is also a hands on leader, she was responsible for bringing up/architecting projects, delegation and holding status meetings. She was directly responsible for unblocking individuals and finding resources throughout the company to direct the team to succeed. She has varied experience at Apple, taking on different projects for different groups through Apple Internal programs. Hina is skilled at building connections, problem-solving, architecting a feature, and driving an initiative to completion.

Senior Software Developer - Tech Lead

Jun 2014Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Hina worked on multiple projects and was DRI for numerous features such as iCloud, Restore from backup, Find My, Security, Accounts, and iTunes.
  • She is proficient in full-stack development & app development. Her expertise includes Python, Rust, Objective-C, Swift, Java, ReactJS, Django, Kafka, REST APIs & Machine Learning concepts. She hired six software developers and one intern and thoroughly mentored them in this role. She was also responsible for leading the team's efforts she built, from conceptualizing features to shipping them successfully, along with running agile scrums.
Strategic ThinkingLeadership

Harmonic

Software Engineer

May 2014Jun 2014 · 1 mo · San Jose, California, United States

  • Hina developed a framework for the organization for validation of video/audio output using Python, RPyC, REST & MySQL for faster video serving.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Machine Learning

Symantec

Software Engineer

Jul 2012Apr 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Hina was responsible for installer/upgrader for Symantec Endpoint Protection acquired by Broadcom Inc. Software Development/Continuous Integration in Java/Python/Ant scripting for Vontu/Symantec Endpoint Protection which was later acquired by Broadcom.
Design PatternsComputer NetworkingSQLAlgorithmsPythonJava+3

Self-employed

Co-Founder

Jan 2007Jan 2010 · 3 yrs · India

  • Hina co-founded a company in India focusing on creating free websites for small businesses. She worked with 4 of her teammates with a tech stack of JSP, Oracle & HTML. She also interned with several companies in India during this time focusing on software development.

Education

Stanford University

(Dropped out) — Artificial Intelligence

Santa Clara University

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Science & Engineering

Mody Institute of Technology & Science

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science

Mercy Memorial School

10th & 12th — Mathematics and Science

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