Akshay Sharma
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Lyric
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
2023 - Current
Making payment integrity & accuracy easy with AI. Building an AI-First platform for fintech in healthcare.
Lyric provides is a company that payment accuracy solutions for healthcare payers.
Raised $90,900,000.00.
LP / investor
2022
Firsthand.vc is an inception stage VC investing in autonomous B2B software across industries.
Founder
2023
Generative AI for Equity Research and Financial Intelligence
Partner
2022
Incubating from ideas to companies in healthcare, finance, insurance, and crypto
Multiversal Ventures leverages General AI and LLMs to innovate in enterprise-scale and regulated industries.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2022 - 2023
As an EIR I get to deeply understand the payor business fundamentals and finding a wedge to improve healthcare.
Founding Partner
2021 - 2023
I selectively invest in startups and protocols that are working on non-linear ideas - ideas that will advance humanity with an exponent. Usually in the intersection of privacy, crypto/web3, and moving things from in-vivo to in-silico. A few investments in past: - RealtyBits (YC 2019) - FrontM
Chief Technology Officer (Volunteer)
2019 - 2022
TEDx SanFrancisco is a day long conference featuring compelling speakers who are masters in their industry, spanning tech, science, philosophy, design, and entertainment.
CEO, Co-Founder
2022 - 2022
Hammer Of The Gods (hotg.ai) is building the developer experience tools and infrastructure for secure edge computing. We built a open source no-OS container technology for portable ML workloads and models to run on many devices. hotg.ai makes compute portable for a variety of applications where data is too expensive or difficult to centralize. Containerize and run your entire ML pipeline anywhere - devices, desktops, cloud, serverless - places where docker won't even run!
Co-Founder
2020 - 2022
Building hotg.ai from skunkworks in early days (2020) to a full team in 2021. We developed a WebAssembly based container that can run any workloads (ML / Analytics / algorithms) on many devices even without needing an operating system - places where Docker doesn't run. Raised the pre-seed round and grew the full time team to launch our SAAS edge ML platform.
Vice Chair IEEE-SA IC19-004 DCT- Decentralized Clinical Trials (Novel digital biomarkers work group)
2021 - 2022
Leading the Novel Digital Biomarkers and Continuous Composite Endpoints workgroup for the decentralized clinical trials under IEEE standards association
IEEE is a professional association of engineers focused on advancing technological innovation and excellence.
Raised $1,200,000.00.
AI Advisor
2022 - 2022
Advising on AI strategy in healthcare
Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence
2021 - 2022
Building AI technologies, platforms, and solutions in digital health with an opportunity for significant impact. Taking doc.ai ideas to scale with Sharecare. February 23, 2021, Sharecare completes acquisition of doc.ai. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sharecare-completes-acquisition-of-docai-enhancing-digital-health-offering-with-innovative-ai-solutions-and-tech-capabilities-301233531.html
Sharecare is a health and wellness engagement platform that provides information, programs, and resources to improve individuals health.
Raised $850,000,000.00 from Baron Capital, Woodline Partners, Digital Alpha, Elevance Health, Koch Strategic Platforms and Eldridge Industries.
Education
B.E
1998 - 2002