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Vishal Maini
Managing Partner at Mythos Ventures
United States
Overview
Vishal Maini is the Founding Partner at Mythos Ventures, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science. With a background in leading strategic communications at DeepMind and driving growth at Upstart Network, Vishal has a strong track record in the tech industry.
His career highlights include founding Mythos Ventures and co-leading AGI Deployment Strategy at DeepMind, showcasing his expertise in AI and strategic planning.
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2023 - Current
Helping good ideas succeed
Entrepreneur In Residence
2022 - 2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5
Convergent Research is a focused research organization for conducting non-profit science projects and research.
Raised $1,967,868.00 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Co-lead, AGI Deployment Strategy
2020 - 2021
https://deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com/building-safe-artificial-intelligence-52f5f75058f1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07871
Strategic Communications Manager
2018 - 2020
Head of Growth
2016 - 2017
Upstart is the first online lending marketplace to utilize modern machine learning and non-traditional variables like education, test scores, and job trajectory to assess credit risk better than any financial institution in the world. Upstart was founded in 2012 and is backed by First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Eric Schmidt and Marc Benioff. I scaled our growth efforts and team from launch to $600MM in originations & 6 FTE. Our work spanned digital/offline marketing, partnerships, content/SEO, creative/brand, funnel optimization, and analytics.
Growth Marketing Manager
2014 - 2016
Special Ops
2013 - 2014
Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST) is a leading AI lending marketplace partnering with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit.
Raised $944,050,000.00 from First National Bank Of Omaha, Progressive, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Rakuten, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, Green D Ventures and Third Point Ventures.
Co-Founder
2011 - 2012
Arizona Microcredit Initiative (http://azmicrocredit.org) is a nonprofit venture that aims to provide startup capital and small business consulting for entrepreneurs in the greater Phoenix area who have limited access to traditional sources of credit. The founding team secured funding from ASU's Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative, operationalized AMI as a 501c3, and onboarded the first staff members.
Arizona Microcredit Initiative is a nonprofit venture that offers business consulting services, education, and loans for small businesses.
True Entrepreneur Corps Fellow
2011 - 2011
True Ventures selects 12 undergraduates from around the country to spend a summer working with portfolio companies while completing a curriculum on early-stage startups and venture capital. I worked on product/UX @ SoundTracking (acquired by Rhapsody).
True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Education
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