Lab to Market: Commercializing AI

About Me

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

My core values are resilience, integrity, truth and service. I care about building a wider table and a kinder world.

Professionally, a data scientist turned 0 → 1 AI PM with a Kellogg MBA, I turn frontier AI into revenue. A full-stack AI generalist, I bring depth in AI/ML with breadth across roles (data science, PM, VC, Chief of Staff) and scale (startups, bigtech). My edge lies in the operating range: GTM, product, board reporting—with a knack for shaping high-performing teams amidst ambiguity.

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 call ‘frozen in time’, I noticed tech adoption change livelihoods and mindsets. I wanted to drive that change. An early example is designing an air filter for street lamps to reduce pollution at a Google [X] design sprint. Since then, I've been obsessed with innovating.

Inspired by 2 sisters - a data scientist & a UX researcher, I learnt time-series modeling in R & Joel Marsh's UX crash course. I found my sweet spot where data meets UX in product management, at a “failed” undergrad internship. I unpack that story in this Stanford d.school talk and blog on leveraging internships to 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+ bookings.

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 PM 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 early-stage operator experience enabled me to quickly add value to portfolios and scope the consumer & AI landscape. Now, 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 - learnt product, metrics, execution; my right place right time experience

Amazon

Product Manager II, Promotions Recommendations

Learnt negotiations, writing, strategy, PM best practices

Samsung Research US

AIML Product & GTM Lead

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

Niantic Spatial

Senior Product Manager, Spatial AI GTM

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 drive conversational AI platform pivot while ChatGPT launched

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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