Akshat Talreja

Summer Business Analyst

2023 - Current

Quantum Black, AI by McKinsey + Tech GTM Incoming FT in 2024

Product

2022

Backed by Lux Capital, Menlo Ventures

Product

2021

Acquired by Tata; backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Bill & Melina Gates Foundation PM for the pharmacy search product • Defined the product vision and strategy for the Search product at 1mg, a Sequoia backed digital health startup, by conducting 30+ user interviews, analyzing product data using SQL, and researching 20+ competitors • Identified an opportunity to improve conversion in the case of users misspelling medicines available on 1mg (10% of all queries) & increase annual sales by ~USD 1M; presented insights to stakeholders including the CTO • Led a team of 5 (3 engineers, 2 data scientists) to build a new approach to generate better spelling corrections; managed tradeoffs to avoid extensive engineering cost or expensive schema changes • Ran A/B tests, identified and measured performance metrics to iterate, & released feature to 100% of users

Founder

2021

Our mission with AI@X is to build a community of students passionate about AI across the United States, and serve as the central place for the next generation of leaders in AI to collaborate, build relationships, and grow while learning from each other. AI@Penn: https://aipenn.org/ AI@Columbia: https://aicolumbia.org/ Interested in getting involved? Reach out at talreja@wharton.upenn.edu

Investment Team

2021

Investments: Meddo, Docquity Worked on 2 investments [NDA]; built investment thesis, fundraising decks, developed social strategy, wrote about COVID's impact on Indian healthcare published in the Times of India

Founder & President

2020

Cultivating a networked AI community @ Penn for 600+ members; launched AIHacks, Penn's largest student-run datathon with 150+ members across 30+ universities; launched AI Venture fellows program to connect students with high-growth startups on AI consulting projects Currently building AI@X -- stay tuned!

Investment Fellow

2020

Unshackled Ventures backs immigrant founders at day 0—impressive people building revolutionary companies. Support investment team with sourcing, industry deep-dives, and due diligence of data and ML focused investments If you are working on something interesting, reach out at akshat.talreja@unshackledvc.com

Engagement Lead

2021

Lead data science consulting engagements with corporate clients. Previous clients include Neuroflow (Series B behavioral health startup), McDonalds, and Master Kong.

Executive Vice President

2020

Venture Fellow

2020 - 2021

Reach out if you are a founder building something cool! Republic is an investment platform spun out of AngelList allowing anyone to invest in pre-seed to Series B startups