Vishal Maini

Founder & Managing Partner

2023 - Current

Helping good ideas succeed

Entrepreneur In Residence

2022 - 2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00018-5

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

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.

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).