Neil Parikh
Founder of Slingshot AI
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Slingshot AI provides a cloud-based platform for easy training, deploying, and managing machine learning models.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from What If Ventures, Arjun Sethi, Sumeet Gajri, Cory Levy, Bryan Baum, Jerry Murdock, Felicis, Liu Jiang, Michael Stoppelman and Alex Macdonald.
Partner
2023
Co-Founder & COO/CSO
2014 - 2021
Casper is the world's leading sleep brand. We co-founded the company in 2014 and grew it to over $500M in annual revenue.
Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission-driven inflated prices.
Raised $339,700,000.00 from Gordon Whyte, New Enterprise Associates, IVP, Target, Sand Hill Angels, Parkway Venture Capital, Dani Reiss, Norwest Venture Partners and Alumni Ventures.
Co-Founder
2010 - 2014
We help those living in urban slums gain access to clean water technologies through novel retail models. Started a pilot store in one of the largest slums in the world (Dharavi). Trying to push the needle forward on advocacy & resource sharing re: clean water.
WaterWalla aims to improve access to clean water for underserved communities worldwide.
Founder
2012 - 2013
Consignd allows anyone to retail. We're changing the retail infrastructure from the ground up by allowing content publishers to sell directly from brands.
Organizer
2011 - 2012
TEDxCollegeHill is about transformative ideas for the future of health. It was a first-of-its-kind collaboration between schools of medicine, design, and public health.
Researcher
2008 - 2008
Worked with a team of fellow undergraduates in a student-run lab to develop a novel way of detecting the presence of toxins in water using bacterial sensors. Won Best Project in the Environmental Track at the MIT iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machines) World Competition.
Research Associate
2007 - 2007
Was a research associate in the NASA Robotics Academy at Goddard Space Flight Center working with PI John Vranish on a project involving Walk & Roll Mobility.