Inception Fund

Still in pre-training. Backing New Nordic made technical brilliance at the earliest inception stages.

www.inceptionfund.vc

In pre-training...

Zenith Ventures

Founder and operator turned VC. Backing obsessed Nordic B2B software and vertical AI founders from the earliest stages. 

No-nonsense, hands-on and fighting for founders.

General Partner

Stealth AI Startup

Pre-seed Investor

Natively

Build and launch native mobile apps with AI.

www.natively.dev

Lovable

Building the last piece of software.

Careers: https://lovable.dev/careers

www.lovable.dev

Angel Investor

Vantel (YC W25)

AI Software for commercial insurance brokers (YC W25).

www.vantel.com

Pre-seed Investor 

Tandem Health

Helping clinicians focus on providing care instead of on administrative tasks through AI and automation.

Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tandem-health 

www.tandemhealth.ai

Tzafon

An applied AI research & development firm looking to push the boundaries of what machines are capable of through the intersection of AI & software engineering.

www.tzafon.ai

Lightbringer

Navigate and protect your IP and patent journey with AI.

Careers: https://www.lightbringer.com/apply

www.lightbringer.com

Seed Investor

Pruna AI

The AI optimization engine for ML teams seeking to simplify scalable inference.

Careers: https://careers.pruna.ai/

www.pruna.ai

Data & AI/ML Entrepreneur | Early Stage Investor

Over a decade of experience within Big Tech, B2B software, Data and AI Infrastructure as a founder, operator and investor.

Passionate about bringing new and paradigm-shifting technologies to market. This passion has led me to a over decade-long entrepreneurial career focused on emerging software industries and global markets - from ML & Data Infrastructure startups and venture capital funds to Fortune 500 technology leaders such as Google. 

Raised +$50M in early-stage funding from top VCs as a founder and operator. 

A big believer in people, data, design and telling a story. Passionate about building new products with the right GTM, messaging and growing teams that do so.

Deep understanding of the venture capital, private equity, SaaS, cloud, data and AI ecosystems with solid global relationships at all levels.

Frequent keynote speaker on topics around data, AI, startups and venture capital. Considered as one of the top AI & data thought leaders in the Nordics.

Oliver Molander

I don't think people truly understand how early we're in enterprise adoption of AI agents.

McKinsey just released their 2025 AI report. 

Some nuggets:

1️⃣ 90% of companies “use AI,” but 67% are still stuck in pilot mode. Corporate AI theater is alive and well.

2️⃣ 62% of orgs are experimenting with AI agents, 23% are scaling AI agents. Most are in tech and healthcare.

3️⃣ The impact gap is massive. 64% say AI helps innovation, but only 39% see real EBIT gains. 

4️⃣ The high performers (top 6%) think bigger. They rebuild workflows, set growth goals, and invest real budgets not just PoCs.

5️⃣ Leaders who own AI personally are 3x more likely to scale it. Makes sense.

6️⃣ The winners use AI to transform how work gets done, not just speed it up.

7️⃣ The average company measures efficiency. The best ones measure how fast their agents can act.

8️⃣ Risk management is catching up with 51% have already seen AI backfire, mostly from inaccuracy.

9️⃣ The workforce impact is foggy. 32% expect cuts, 13% expect growth, everyone else is guessing.

Agentic AI looks magical in demos, but scaling it across teams and systems (especially in enterprise settings) is where it still breaks. You can do basic single-step automation reliably right now (tool calling).

As Andrej Karpathy recently noted on LLM agents:

"My critique of the industry is more in overshooting the tooling w.r.t. present capability."

Bottom line: we're still super early, this transformation will go on for another decade.

I'm bullish, but this will take a bit longer than we think, having fully autonomous agents. Just like autonomous driving took a bit longer than we thought, but here we are.

E.g. one of the biggest challenges in building AI agents today is agents' long-term memory.

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Infino AI

Co-Founder and CTO

College of Engineering Pune

Established in 1854, College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) is the 3rd oldest engineering institute in India. I am part of the committee that decides the syllabus for the degree programs offered by the Department of Computer Engineering.

Member, Board of Studies

Abhyasu

We specialize in providing comprehensive Computational Thinking education tailored for intellectually curious 10-15 year old students seeking advanced challenges beyond their classroom curriculum. Our structured programs cover Python programming, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

With a global reach, we have successfully taught students from diverse backgrounds, spanning countries such as India, the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and beyond. Many of our young learners have demonstrated exceptional mastery in these technologies, often gaining acceptance into prestigious internships or summer programs at renowned institutions.

Co-founder

Lyft

Advisor, Machine Learning

Joined Lyft after Lyft acquired my startup FinitePaths. Architected and built the Machine Learning Platform for Lyft, which includes Feature Service for defining, storing, and accessing ML features, LyftLearn for ML model development and training, and ModelExec for large-scale online predictions and monitoring of models. These tools are the de-facto way of ML modeling at Lyft. Details of some of these tools are shared in the following blog posts:

* https://eng.lyft.com/lyftlearn-ml-model-training-infrastructure-built-on-kubernetes-aef8218842bb
* https://eng.lyft.com/ml-feature-serving-infrastructure-at-lyft-d30bf2d3c32a

Co-creator, Machine Learning Platform

FinitePaths Inc. (acq. by Lyft)

Having fun being part of an amazing team and working on a cool product. Checkout http://www.finitepaths.com/. Acquired by Lyft in March 2017.

* https://inc42.com/buzz/fintepaths-gets-acquired-by-lyft/
* http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/startups/lyft-acquires-pune-based-startup-finitepaths/57783489
* https://www.vccircle.com/ride-hailing-app-lyft-buys-pune-based-finitepaths/
* http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/uber-rival-lyft-acquires-pune-based-finitepaths-to-tap-indian-talent-117032300254_1.html

Amazon

* Moved to Pune, India in May 2014 - led the CloudSearch team based in Bangalore.
* Led the engineering team across Bangalore and Palo Alto to launch Amazon Elasticsearch Service - https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/
* Identified key initiatives to improve relevance of search on amazon.in -- exceeding the business goal for amazon.in by a huge margin.

Head of Engineering, CloudSearch India

A9.com (subsidiary of Amazon.com)

* Led engineering for Amazon CloudSearch with team members across four locations - Palo Alto, Bangalore, Buenos Aires, Virginia.
* Launched a number of features such as auto-complete, highlighting, support for 34 languages and geospatial search.
* Successfully transitioned CloudSearch engine from proprietary to the one based on open source Solr.
* Recognized as a leader with deep influence across various functions beyond Engineering, such as Operations, Product, Business Development and Finance.

Tech Lead and Manager, Amazon CloudSearch

Built AWS's search service in the cloud - Amazon CloudSearch https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/

Software Engineer, Amazon CloudSearch

Yahoo!

* Built a platform for large-scale information extraction from Yahoo's web crawl.
* Built a system for deep crawl using form filling and wrote algorithms to extract data from the crawled pages to enhance Yahoo's search index and other properties such as Yahoo Local.
* Launched product innovations using these information extraction technologies, resulting in unique product features at the time such as http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/04/28/get-the-dish-that-you-wish/
* Won Yahoo! Hack Day (Yahoo!'s internal engineering competition) 3 times while I was there.

Research Engineer

* Designed and implemented a number of architecture changes in Amazon's search index to scale it to handle massive query and document volume.
* Rearchitected the document processing pipeline to separate business logic and search indexing logic to support Amazon's massive expansion in multiple marketplaces and categories.
* Recognized as an engineer with deep operational expertise. Primary engineering contact for many high severity issues regarding search on amazon.com and other marketplaces.

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer

Veritas Software

* Designed and developed Agent Developer's Toolkit in Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). 
* Cross platform implementation in Java (UI) and C++ (backend) that worked seamlessly across Windows, Solaris, Linux and HP-UX.

Associate Software Engineer

Co-founder @Abhyasu.com | ex-Amazon, ex-Lyft, ex-Stanford

Technologist who loves to work on new ideas and take them from conception to production. Specialized in AI/ML, Distributed Systems, Search, Information Retrieval, Databases. 19+ years experience in individual contributor as well as people management roles across domains such as e-commerce, transportation, ed-tech, web search, cloud services.

Some examples of my past work:
1/ Architected and built Machine Learning Platform at Lyft, including systems and services for feature engineering, model development and training, model deployment and monitoring.
2/ Founded FinitePaths, social Q&A with a strong backend ML platform. FinitePaths was acquired by Lyft.
3/ Conceptualized and led the team to build AWS Elasticsearch Service (now called OpenSearch Service).
4/ Built the distributed search engine for Amazon retail.

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