Hi, I'm Juhi Parekh

About Me

A founder-at-heart with operating & investing experience in US & India, I'm currently based in sunny San Francisco. Just like SF, I bring data, humor, and a passion for the future to everything I do.

I measure my life by positive impact I create. I care about building a wider table and a kinder world. My core values are resilience, integrity, truth and service.

Professionally, I get intrinsic joy from building products & teams that reimagine the future. Data scientist turned 0→1 AI PM with a Kellogg MBA, I turn frontier AI into scalable products & businesses. Having worn many hats (data scientist, product lead, chief of staff, VC), I bring a full-stack view from market narrative to product roadmap to board reporting. I add most value in the messy middle: product strategy & GTM, negotiations, building a repeatable business and high performing teams.

Outside of work, I enjoy sports, humor, puzzles, & food.

I write on my blog, substack, and X. Talks, code, mentoring profile linked.

From AI commercialization to poetry, I write about life’s questions (big & small) with humor and wonder!

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JOURNEY OVER THE YEARS

Innovator

Growing up in Calcutta, India, a city I describe as ‘frozen in time’, I noticed tech adoption change livelihoods and mindsets. I was motivated to drive that change. An early example is a Google [X] design sprint where I designed an air filter for street lamps to reduce pollution. Since then, I'm obsessed with innovating how people interact with the world.

Inspired by 2 of my sisters - a data scientist & an ethnographic researcher, I started learning time-series modeling in R & implementing Joel Marsh's UX crash course. I found my sweet spot where data meets UX: product management at a “failed” undergrad internship.

I unpack that story in this Stanford d.school talk and this blog on using internships identify what you really want to do.

Strategist

Have you tried booking an uber/lyft & seen pickup zones in commercial/high demand locations? That's the first product I built - a location intelligence platform at Ola and scaled it to 3M+ users.

As a Product Manager, I've been fortunate to launch 0to1 and 1ton products in AIML, B2C, and B2B data/AI SaaS across startups (Ola, Niantic Spatial) and bigtech (Apple, Amazon, Samsung Research US). Further, MBA, chief of staff and 1x founding experience honed my strategy and go-to-market muscle.

In this Product School talk, I share how Product Management differs in startups & bigtech.

Investor & Community Builder

I invest in my pursuit of a wider table and I foster communities for a kinder world.

I built a view of the other side of the table as a VC at Stellaris Venture Partners. My operator experience equipped me to quickly add value to portfolios and scope the consumer & AI landscape. I foster an angel investing syndicate for women in AI to drive more equity in cap-tables.

In this tell-all talk with Jean Lee, I share my journey from data science to product and building a career in AI.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Olacabs

Product Manager, App Experience

Scaled Ola from series D to series I - my right place right time experience - learnt product, metrics, execution

Amazon

Product Manager II, Promotions Recommendations

Learnt negotiations, writing, strategy, PM best practices

Samsung Research US

AIML Product Lead

2nd PM in a 150 person lab; built visual search & LLM workflows; learnt influence without authority

Niantic Spatial

Senior Product Manager, Spatial Computing

Back to startups!

Multimodal foundation models for spatial intelligence; 3D AI for enterprise & games

Apple

Stellaris Venture Partners

Uniphore

AIML Product Manager, Visual Intelligence & Search

Learnt to surprise & delight; Did my life's best work, got an email from Tim Cook

Uniphore

Stellaris Venture Partners

Uniphore

Chief of Staff

Learnt to think at a company level - org design, culture, strategy, growth, pivoting;

exciting to be at a conversational AI unicorn when ChatGPT blew up in Feb'23

Stellaris Venture Partners

Investor

Learnt to think at a market level - dealmaking, identifying whitespaces, founder challenges, future trends

EDUCATION

K12

Modern High School for Girls,

Calcutta, India

Computer science major

► Brown Belt - Karate; MHS football team, 100m/relays; dance

Studying in an all-girls school for 12 years has shaped the core of who I am. MHS is a special place, where I learnt to put sisterhood first; where I developed my values, interests, ambition and courage to be a voice in the room when the room needs a voice. My tribute to MHS here.

Bachelor of Engineering

R.V.College Of Engineering,

Bangalore, India

Best outgoing student, EEE'16

► Google Student Ambassador; Grace Hopper Conference'17 Scholar (Orlando, USA); President, Entrepreneurship cell

MBA

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,

Evanston/Chicago, Illinois

Israel Crown Innovation Fellow

► Co-founder, C3 - a creator monetization startup (2022-2023)

Hi, I'm Juhi Parekh

Innovator. Strategist. Investor.

Innovator. Strategist. Investor.

About Me

JOURNEY OVER THE YEARS

Innovator

Strategist

Investor & Community Builder

WORK EXPERIENCE

Olacabs

Amazon

Samsung Research US

Niantic Spatial

Apple

Stellaris Venture Partners

Uniphore

Uniphore

Stellaris Venture Partners

Uniphore

Stellaris Venture Partners

Stellaris Venture Partners

Stellaris Venture Partners

EDUCATION

K12

Bachelor of Engineering

MBA

MBA

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