Riddhi Mittal
Founder of Kansha.ai
Riddhi Mittal
Founder of Kansha.ai
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2023 - Current
Using Artificial General Intelligence to enhance Human Intelligence --- global Enterprise AI usecases programming genAI to reprogram the human operating system with measurable precision, efficacy, speed Think Enterprise AI to make humans more human $50B market size for first usecase for BFSI globally (scaling a non-obvious, non-linear pivot in stealth. Enterprise customers at minimum $200M revenue are our sweet spot ICP :)) Currently hiring across roles -- https://bit.ly/riddhi_apply 1. if you're an ambitious, super high achiever, self learner, hustler, hungry for 10x growth, and want to build for the global market, please DM me 2. there is a MASSIVE content and community play here --- if you have a proven track record of building community through great content, please DM 3. Chief of Staff - ideally ex-founder, well-rounded, work closely with me, make this happen
Founder coach and Growth Consulting
2018
You're a founder. You are giving everything you have to your company. You find yourself always selling (fundraising, partnerships, recruiting, PR, etc). You don't know whom to let your guard down with --- whom to be vulnerable and real with, whom to call when things aren't rosy and the sky is falling. I've worked with many founders deeply across all sectors. You're the sector expert, I'm the generalist with extreme founder empathy. We can work together on Nx-ing your numbers using whatever needle it takes (Product, Data, Design, Partnerships, Team Leader coaching, people strengths and role alignment using MBTI and Jungian cognitive functions, being Wendy from Billions, Introductions, Word choice coaching with applications to make you and your team more effective in Fundraising, Messaging, Marketing and Sales, etc). Psychological techniques like CBT, ACT and Motivational Interviewing are also used. My biggest strength --- using the Socratic method to ask the right questions and be your trusted sounding board. The right answers will present themselves when we're solving for the right questions. And you need a good balance of your biggest cheerleader (when others aren't getting you) and your biggest check-and-balance (when others may be excessively cheering you on without thoughtfully caring about whether your current path is the most effective way to your intended destination). Let's chat.
Business & Product Head
2021 - 2021
Enterprise SAAS sales globally to Fortune 2000 companies (Worked with CRO and sales teams in US, EMEA and APJ) As Business Head of People cybersecurity vertical - predict the likelihood of security breaches that can be caused by their own employees, and preventing accidental breaches via an employee learning platform. Responsible for Product, overseeing Tech and Design and enabling Sales, Solution Engineering, Marketing and Customer Support. Responsible for Course Content and Delivery of 150 cybersecurity-edtech courses
Co-Founder & CEO
2020 - 2020
Founded a volunteer led community effort which grew from 1 to 500+ pan India volunteers, with ~100 active and full-time volunteers, within the first 1.5 months. The various teams interfaced with industry org members from CII & FICCI, medical associations like OMAG, various startups, VCs and other volunteer networks, and were able to: 1. Fulfil various PPE and other product catalogue demands from various hospitals pan India, end to end (monetary amount ~ 1 crore) 2. Fundraise for the above demands to the tune of ~30 Ls 3. Organise 6 Demo Days (each had a live audience of 3k-7k) which cumulatively showcased 150 companies which had developed Covid solutions across 30+ major Tracks helping 24+ State govts in fighting covid in India. We even helped each company craft the perfect 2min elevator pitch to come across most effectively. 4. Organise 2 Shows showcasing the major organisations pan India working towards the Migrant worker crisis across every major aspect of it, and few govt officials spoke live during the shows. 5. Build technology (25 tech volunteers) like PlasmaYoddha.in (went official Maharashtra wide) and other apps for few govt officials across Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra etc, in conjunction with the tireless efforts of the Govt Relations team 6. Build a great social media presence across all major platforms. Secure multiple fruitful partnerships with major organisations (SAE, ACT, AFI, NC, Coronathon, PHFI (verbal), IBM.tv, FPJ), get a great set of advisors etc. 7. Separate recruiting team worked tirelessly to find great people. Separate User research team understood how the needs evolved wk by wk to inform what else we could do to help Volunteer churn is very high, and most teams needed to be setup by me 3-6 times for some semblance of stability to take hold. Each team leader was exceptional in leading their teams. Extremely proud that the effort was able to accomplish so much. Got covered in HT, YS etc
Listener and Mood-shift creator for Depression Anxiety and Suicide
2018 - 2018
In a total of $18, in 2 months, I helped via chat therapy, 500 people in deep depression, anxiety and even with extreme suicidal thoughts and caused a moods-shift in most of them by being emotionally validating, supportive, kind, empathetic, and having some fun in problem solving together taught me so much about human psychology and what is actually needed to create accelerated mood shifts over chat vs what psychologists think is needed I was in deep depression of my own at this time, and this $18 spent helping 500 people in crisis, was the best therapy session for me too
Co Founder & CEO
2015 - 2017
A fin-tech consumer lending startup, democratising access to Small ticket small tenure loans to a much larger part of the Indian population, currently underserved by FIs due to lack of/poor CIBIL score Partnered with FIs for debt, then on-lend to customers deemed able & willing to repay End to end- taking care of Sourcing, Analysis, Verification, Decision making, Documentation, Operations, Collections and Repeat loans, and used tech in every lifecycle step Introduced FMIs (F: Flexible) instead of EMIs which had special powers- ability to delay a month's instalment by paying a certain fee, ability to choose date of payment for the month instead of default 5th, ability to design own Instalment plan etc One of Byjus's first fin-tech partners which used Brand Subvention to give Byju's customers loans at 0% Only fin-tech player to have 50-50 presence Online & Offline. Online presence was pan-India. Offline presence in 300 stores in Bangalore - we trained the store staff to use our app for walk-in customers' loan application (avoided norm of separate Loan Officer per store) Ran these teams: PR, Product, Data, Tech, Online Marketing, Content, Design, Recruiting Co-leaded - Fundraising, Partnerships, Strategy Set internal company culture to be High energy, valuing Speed, thoughtfulness, helping team & going above and beyond. Awards: Financial Express Fintech of the Year 2016 Winner LendIt International Innovator of the Year 2016 Finalist 2x Tedx Speaker - IIT Delhi, NMIMS Bangalore Widely covered: YS, TechinAsia, ET, Financial express, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC etc We raised $1.5M Seed round in Oct 2015, got verbal commitments for upto 50cr of debt (used 10 cr), and signed termsheet for another $6.25M SeriesA in Jan 2017 and an initial verbal commitment for another 100 crores of debt in April 2017. Shutdown company due to unforseeable, unavoidable, sudden external circumstances The loans outstanding were collected back over the next 12 months
Self Employed
2015 - 2015
Started self learning algorithmic trading. Included learning about the world of finance and re-visiting my Artificial Intelligence knowledge from college days to apply it to finance. Learnt about : - how stocks, fixed income, options and futures work - Technical trading vs. Quantitative trading vs. Fundamentals driven trading - various quant models used to price derivative securities and their drawbacks - statistics and financial econometrics If you're interested in algorithmic trading and would like to work together, do reach out.
Founder
2014 - 2014
Immediately after floods hit the Jammu & Kashmir region hard in September '14, I built a web platform to help families find and locate loved ones by enabling families to post Mission Person Reports and enabling rescuers to post Found Person Reports. I also implemented a comprehensive matching, messaging and alert system in the backend. Built the entire platform end to end in 10 days time. (HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, PHP using Laravel, Nginx using Homestead, mySQL) Reached out to the Ministry of Home affairs, NDRF and Army hotlines. Reached out to the Police station incharges of affected flood areas to ask them to use it, and understand further scenarios. Adapted to the Assam and Meghalaya floods which happened within a month's time as well, after seeing requests from my social media CDRF campaign asking me to do that. Quickly realized I needed to pivot to a larger issue : coordinating donation activities. - Relief after a disaster hits is a short term process, but Rehabilitation is a much longer term activity and also the one more overlooked and forgotten. - People donate food and clothes for a couple of months after a major disaster happens. That only helps with the immediate short term needs of the affected. - Often too much short term donation is counter productive - there is only so much dal and rice one can eat. But no one (including the various officials in charge) is advising people on what to donate as and how the needs on the ground change in real-time. - No tracking of donation deliveries. Most donators do not know if what they donated even reached someone in need and actually helped them out. I have currently put this project on the backburner because I structured it as an NGO and need to raise donation funds to keep this going. I will return to this when either I can put aside my own funds towards this or start a donation raising campaign. If you're interested in working on this project with me, do reach out.
Program Manager
2013 - 2013
Youngest Program manager on the super amazing HoloLens team led by Alex Kipman (previously created Kinect). Checkout the video here : http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us The engineering on that team is practically defying all laws and limits of physics. I got a chance to work with some of the smartest PhDs from around the world.
Member of Consumer-web/Mobile investment team
2012 - 2013
• Helped source, assess and provide due-diligence on deals as part of the consumer-web/mobile investment team. Primarily looked at e-commerce (subscription, mass-customization, direct sales), family-tech, collaborative consumption and PAAS. • Judged startup demo-days and pitch sessions, helped entrepreneurs fine-tune their pitches and strategies, reached out to and developed relationships with key people in the industry and provided coverage at demo days and conferences.