Rishabh Nijhawan

Associate

2023 - Current

Analyst

2021 - 2023

Founded in 1980, WTI has provided over $7 billion of venture debt and equity capital to 1,300+ companies across all industries ranging from early-stage private companies to publicly-traded enterprises. The investments range from $250 thousand to $50 million and are structured as fully usable, unrestricted growth capital. Over the past 40 years, WTI invested in many now major companies, such as Facebook, Google, Cerent, Juniper Networks, StitchFix, Palantir, Clover, Eventbrite, Allbirds, and many more.

Data Scientist, Customer Intelligence

2021 - 2021

Intern, Customer Insights and Analytics

2021 - 2021

Applying Data Science to create insights from customer feedback. Implementing machine learning models in Python and Java to predict trends in customer behavior and satisfaction.

Data Science Intern

2020 - 2020

Working with the Product Management team in using data science to create insights about the ELSA platform. Additionally, collaborated with the engineering team through writing scripts in python and java to perform ETLs and help re-structure the data pipeline.

Learning Assistant for Data 8: Foundations of Data Science

2019 - 2020

Assisting the Data 8 course staff in weekly lab sessions

Investment Team Intern

2019 - 2019

Data Science Engineering Intern

2018 - 2018

AllyO is an artificial intelligence technology company based in Silicon Valley. Founded in 2016 by Google and MIT engineers, AllyO has a simple mission: use advanced technology to make the recruiting experience simple and efficient. AllyO is backed by various investors including Google's Gradient Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Randstad. At AllyO, I programmed in SQL and Python in order to analyze large data sets and create visualizations for the entire company. I worked with marketing, business operations, customer service, and other teams to create useful graphs, charts, and tables that would provide insight into company performance. Due to my work at AllyO, the company and Gradient Ventures (https://www.gradient.com/portfolio/) awarded me this fellowship program, given to the interns with the most impact.

Recruiting Intern

2017 - 2018

Watched Football Film and evaluated possible recruits based on their skill. Reported to the Head of Recruiting and researched recruits' athletic and academic statistics.

Lead Higher Education Reporter

2018 - 2018

News Reporter

2017 - 2018

Intern

2016 - 2016

As an intern at Storefront, I worked with the Storefront Political Labs Team, which is working with the intersection of politics and technology, developing new communication tools to engage voters and mobilize audiences. In addition to writing articles for the blogs of the clients of Storefront, I researched and complied data about campaigns on the local, state, and federal level in order to display the relevant information on one, accessible, user friendly site. I also used my experience in SEO (search engine optimization) to obtain higher page ranking on certain queries for articles on the Storefront site, iagreetosee.com.