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Ankit Gupta

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of a digital clinic for opioid dependence.
  • Invested in multiple successful AI and healthcare startups.
  • Co-founded a community for tech and healthcare innovation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and SaaS entrepreneur with strong product management and investment expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementHealthcareInvestmentStartup DevelopmentTechnology IntegrationUser EngagementMobile DevelopmentMobile ApplicationsUser ExperienceBiomedical InformaticsProduct Development

Other Skills

EntrepreneurshipDigital HealthBehavior ChangeAIConsumer SoftwareCommunity BuildingApp DevelopmentIntegrationImage RetrievalAPI DevelopmentObjective-CiOS developmentHuman Computer InteractionMachine LearningNatural Language Processing

About

I have over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and product leader in the fields of AI, healthcare, and consumer software. I am passionate about creating impactful solutions that leverage new technology to improve people's lives and well-being. Currently, I am the founder and CEO of Bicycle Health, a digital clinic that helps people free themselves from opioid use disorder. We deliver personalized, evidence-based clinical care that consist of medications and behavior change through a secure app and help people take their life back. Our mission is to provide accessible, affordable, and compassionate care to the millions of Americans who struggle with this chronic condition.

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Leaders in tech

Fellow (Cohort 7)

Oct 2023Jul 2024 · 9 mos

  • One of the best things I’ve done to grow as a leader -> https://leadersintech.org

Bicycle health

Founder and CEO

Nov 2017Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

  • Bicycle Health is a digital clinic to help people free themselves from Opioid Dependence. Whether they are physically dependent on opiates or psychologically dependent on them as well, we deliver personalized evidence-based clinical protocols that consist of medications and behavior change through a secure app and help people take their life back.
  • We accept patients that are high doses of opioids and/or who have been using opioids for over 3 months, regardless of whether they have been diagnosed with opioid use disorder or not. Their Bicycle Health care team consists of an expert physician, a recovery coach and a therapist.
  • 90 Million americans get an opioid prescription every year and if you get a 30 day prescription, the chances of continuing to use opioids after 1 year is 35%. Needless to say, opioid dependence has several negative effects on a person's health, finances and social life. Roughly 15 Million americans are in opioid jail - we help them break free.
  • Work with us to meaningfully change lives of millions of people and their families today.
Product ManagementEntrepreneurshipHealthcareDigital HealthBehavior Change

Docs and hackers

Co Founder

Jun 2017Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

  • Docs and Hackers is a group of medical practitioners and software builders who aim to improve the practice of medicine with technology. We are a community-led organization hoping to increase connections between the technology and healthcare world in order to accelerate innovation in the space. Ping me if you want to help.
HealthcareTechnology IntegrationCommunity Building

Linkedin

2 roles

Principal Product Manager, Connected Enterprise

Jan 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Currently managing a suite of new LinkedIn apps dedicated to connecting employees within the company with each other and the broader economic graph in order to be more successful at their job. My team launched LinkedIn Lookup in August 2015 - the fastest way to find, learn about and contact coworkers.
  • Since January 2016, I also work on a customer-facing product called LinkedIn Elevate. It enables employees to share great content with their networks and can help any company become a socially engaged one.
Product ManagementApp DevelopmentUser Engagement

Senior Product Manager, Pulse

Apr 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Building the definitive source for professional insights on your mobile device, personalized by your professional identity. Along with my cofounder, led a successful integration with LinkedIn. Several new pieces of technology we built are now part of LinkedIn's homepage. And, 3 years later, over 90% of the engineering team is still at the company.
Product ManagementMobile DevelopmentIntegration

My portfolio

Early Stage Investor

Jun 2013Present · 12 yrs 11 mos

  • I invest in early stage startups in AI, Healthcare and Consumer Software. I like to invest as early as possible. In addition to financing, I help my founders with recruiting strategic talent, user centric product development, growing from an engineer to a leader, future financings and more. I only invest in 1-2 startups every year. My portfolio includes Avrios, Ithaka, Knit Health (exit to Google), Chakr, Virgo, Elucidata, Safi, Vernacular.ai, Firefly Health and Chronus Health.
InvestmentStartup DevelopmentAIHealthcareConsumer Software

Pulse news

Co Founder

Apr 2010Dec 2015 · 5 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco

  • Pulse is a fast, fun and beautiful way to read your favorite blogs, magazines, social networks and newspapers. Pulse has been named to Apple's App Store Hall of Fame, chosen as an Android Editor's Choice app, selected as one of TIME's top 50 iPhone apps of 2011, and honored with the Apple Design Award.
  • Pulse in the News:
  • NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15pulse.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
  • WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704720804576009823410963368.html
  • CNBC: http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000149545
  • Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/80433826-pulse-co-founder-kothari-on-kindle-fire-growth.html
Mobile ApplicationsUser ExperienceProduct Development

Stanford university school of medicine

Assistant Researcher

Sep 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Worked in the Biomedical Informatics lab on Quantifying Margin Characteristics of Lesions from CT Images for Content Based Image Retrieval
Biomedical InformaticsImage Retrieval

Polls

Co Founder

Jan 2008Jun 2008 · 5 mos · Mumbai, India

  • Polls was envisioned, as part of the Google Product Prodigy Competition, to become to easiest way to create and embed custom-made polls. It provided a platform to view and engage with current polls. It also provided an extremely simple API to distribute polls, gather responses and visualize results. Polls went on to win the competition in 2008.
Product DevelopmentAPI Development

Education

Stanford University

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jun 2010

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelors — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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