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Kripa (कृपा) Rajshekhar

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Senior Vice President, Data, Analytics and AI at Straive
📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Kripa leads the Data, Analytics, and AI division at Straive, focusing on productionalizing AI for F1000 clients. A former EY M&A Partner and graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he founded Metonymize, a startup backed by both DARPA and the NSF, which was later acquired by Straive.

He is the co-founder of Mintor, an organization dedicated to connecting students with companies for placements. The platform currently supports thousands of students and hundreds of companies, demonstrating a clear passion for fostering the next generation of talent and bridging the gap between education and employment.

Unique fact: Kripa holds a patent for a "Natural Language Relatedness Tool Using Mined Semantic Analysis. "

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President, Data, Analytics and AI
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Third Wave AI
He has authored articles on the topic, defining it as a key area of focus for his work and differentiating it from 'Big Data' reliant machine learning.
Enterprise AI
His current role at Straive involves helping large enterprise clients build reliable, fast, and cheaper ways to implement AI solutions.
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Career

Work history

11-2023
Senior Vice President, Data, Analytics and AI
Straive
10-2014
Founder, CEO
Metonymize
10-2014
Cofounder
Mintor
1-2017 - 8-2017
PPAML (Probabilistic Programing for the Advancement of Machine Learning)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
1-2016 - 12-2016
I-Corps
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Education
MSEE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2014 - 2014
Technology Entrepreneurship (Online course)
Stanford University
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