We're on a mission to bring AI to everyone
We believe there’s an AI superhero in all of us. From business leaders to data scientists and everyone in between, our passion – and our Ikigai - is to educate, empower, and enable the next generation of AI experts.
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What drives us
Our core values
Our story
- MIT-based research, teaching, and authoring in the field of AI and data science
- Published research in Domain Agnostic Model learning
- Scalable compute with PubSub
- First product, Prexcell, released as a Google Sheets add-in for prediction
- Two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants awarded
- Ikigai launched as the first low code/no code generative AI platform built on Large Graphical Models
- aiMatch, aiCast, and aiPlan algorithms productized and launched
- First horizontal and vertical solutions released
- Ikigai delivers on its mission to bring AI education to all
Leadership team
![Devavrat Shah](../642ed08256bfe2c496cfb463/65c9c43052e44db1874d7ee0_64e5d9e687242ee48f4b39d1_Devavrat%252520Shah%2525201-p-500.jpg)
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Devavrat successfully combines academia and entrepreneurship. He is a professor and a director of Statistics and Data Science Center at MIT. He co-founded Celect, a predictive analytics platform for retailers, which he sold to Nike. Devavrat holds a Bachelor and PhD in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology and Stanford University, respectively.
![Vinayak Ramesh](../642ed08256bfe2c496cfb463/65c9cda3ca71bb3a547b6e61_64e5d9e687242ee48f4b39d4_Vinayak%252520Ramesh%2525201-p-500.jpg)
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Vinayak is a serial entrepreneur, recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 list. He co-founded Wellframe, an innovative healthcare company, which he sold to Healthhedge in 2021. Vinayak holds a Bachelor and Master of Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
![Kamal Ahluwalia](../642ed08256bfe2c496cfb463/65c9cda3fcf5246259da9c32_64e5d9e687242ee48f4b39df_Kamal%2520Ahluwalia%2520%281%29.jpeg)
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Kamal Ahluwalia is an experienced leader in creating new categories and building high-growth global businesses. Kamal has co-authored two recent books, "What's Next for You" and "Deep Talent". These represent his commitment to empowering the current and next generation of leaders with the skills and platform necessary for success in the AI era.
![David Carpini](../642ed08256bfe2c496cfb463/65c9cda36fb5439f0813b58d_65c6743ffa3c61cb18e0e2ae_david-carpini.jpeg)
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David is a proven business leader who has held various global executive roles for large multi-national corporations, mid-stage companies and early-stage start-ups. He has an established track record of managing global sales, marketing, and business strategy teams while driving revenue growth and providing unique customer valued solutions. David has been an industry leader in positioning complex SaaS and AI solutions for a wide variety of industries and segments, and in his last role he shepherded an early-stage AI company to over a $100M run rate in less than 5 years
![Jae Sim](../642ed08256bfe2c496cfb463/65c9cda4c00efdbe442a96ce_64e5d9e687242ee48f4b39d7_Jae%252520Sim-p-800.jpeg)
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Jae is a Berkeley-educated Software Engineer, leading the engineering team at Ikigai Labs. He is also studying system design and engineering management at MIT and distributed computing at Georgia Tech. He enjoys working with data warehouse/lakehouse, scalable distributed systems, and Kubernetes-related applications.
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Florence brings almost 20 years of finance experience and has a strong track record of driving results. She has held various leadership roles and has scaled pre and post IPO companies including Automation Anywhere, Anaplan, and Juniper Networks. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and is a CPA.
![Gopkiran Rao](../642ed08256bfe2c496cfb463/65c9cda495af8815ea26e3f3_652efca053078d3db07d6fc8_gopkiran-rao.jpeg)
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Reformed lawyer, journalist and technologist, Gop’s go-to-market experience revolves around demonstrable business outcomes, most recently for the enterprise front office. His core belief is that innovative technology serves as a foundation for value creation for people and organizations, moving beyond automation to provide complete industry solutions.
![Ben Allen](../642ed08256bfe2c496cfb463/65c9cda4750e419cee4fa5ef_652efcc0b77b74888d000f53_ben-allen-2.jpeg)
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Ben Allen has served in a variety of go-to-market leadership roles, including leading marketing for three separate high-growth SaaS companies. Before software, Ben spent a decade as a hedge fund investment analyst. He is a graduate of Stanford University.
Our investors
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