Akash Venkat

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded multiple startups in AI and EdTech.
  • Expert in user research and conversational AI development.
  • Strong background in neuroscience and data analysis.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a versatile entrepreneur with expertise in AI, EdTech, and legal technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

User ExperienceData Analysis

Other Skills

PythonResearchMicrosoft OfficeSocial MediaNeuroscienceJavaCMatlabProgrammingStatisticsHTMLPublic SpeakingSPSSScienceAlgorithms

About

Exploring the future of work + learning, startup ecosystems, neuroscience research and films. I love working with high integrity, low ego teams that get things done.

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
11 mos
Current Experience

Entrepreneurs first

Investor

Jun 2025Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Elzo ai

Co-Founder

Jan 2024Jun 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Elzo spun out of Kluster internally to solve one of our own problems — user research at scale. Elzo is a conversational AI tool that helps product/research/marketing teams talk to their users 1:1 in 50+ languages, turning those conversations into actionable insights. Our customers include D2C brands, gaming companies, market research and customer insights teams.

Various companies

Angel Investor

Apr 2021Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Invested in Ego (egoai.com), FleetWorks (fleetworks.ai), Toko (tokotutor.com), Maven (maven.com), Gumroad (gumroad.com), Akudo (akudo.in) and more.

Kluster

Co-Founder

Mar 2021Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building a peer-to-peer learning platform to power the 'Study Web'. Our mission is to make learning social, productive and fun. Backed by Accel India.

Gigster

3 roles

Program Manager

Jan 2019Mar 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Engagement Manager

Sep 2016Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Gigster powers the world's engineering using distributed teams on demand. Founding member of the Delivery organization. Managed Gigster's key accounts and largest distributed software teams.

Product Manager (Network)

Apr 2016Sep 2016 · 5 mos

  • Gigster builds software on demand using managed distributed teams. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator (YC S15), and Greylock Partners. Built a 'Strava for software engineers' application and an ordering app for a robot restaurant.

Ross intelligence

Co-Founder

Sep 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • ROSS Intelligence is developing AI technology that can read and answer questions about the law, enabling lawyers to enhance and scale their services. ROSS’s customers include top law firms and corporate legal departments, both in the United States and abroad. ROSS has raised 13mm in funding from Y Combinator (S15), iNovia Capital and Comcast Ventures and has been featured in The Atlantic, The Economist, Wired and TechCrunch.
  • I co-founded ROSS and led our Customer Success, User Ops and Marketing functions.

Semaphore lab, ischool (university of toronto)

Research Assistant

Sep 2013May 2014 · 8 mos · Toronto

  • Mobile and Pervasive Computing Research Cluster - Sensory Information Processing group.
  • Research Assistant on a project investigating how tablet computers and gestures facilitate children's understanding of mathematical concepts. Acknowledged in the Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology (http://semaphore.utoronto.ca/output.php?p=246) and Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (http://semaphore.utoronto.ca/output.php?p=127).

Rocketr

Researcher & Lean Startup Practitioner

May 2012Oct 2012 · 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Hypothesis Testing/Experimentation, User Research, Customer Development, Usability & QA.
  • Rocketr (rebranded to Pilot) was acquired by Shopify.

Laboratory for natural and simulated cognition (lnsc), mcgill university

Research Assistant

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

  • Studied the impact of food nutrition labeling schemes on dietary choice and health as part of my undergraduate research project under supervisor Dr.Thomas.R.Shultz. Worked with mathematical models predicting body weight change using caloric intake amounts as inputs and assisted in the development of a decision making model based on decision field theory.

Education

University of Toronto

Master of Information

Jan 2013Jan 2015

McGill University

BSc

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Dubai Modern High School

High School Diploma — Science

Jan 2005Jan 2008

Y Combinator

Jan 2015Present

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