About

Himanshu Upreti is a co-founder and CTO at Ai Palette, a Singapore-based deep technology start-up for the CPG industry. With his patent-pending AI technology, Himanshu and his team are building the world's first AI engine to empower brands to identify white space opportunities and generate product concepts using cutting-edge AI. Their vision is to democratize the consumer understanding ranging from the biggest of the Fortune 500 companies to the smallest of the D2C brands. Prior to Ai Palette, Himanshu worked at Visa Inc. in the division Visa Data Labs, immediately after his graduation from IIT Guwahati. His primary work involved building data products and driving PoCs on Visa's Big Data Platform to create a more seamless and faster payment experience. He is well-versed and certified in Hadoop, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and its related components. He also had an opportunity to showcase his 'victorious' Hackathon app to hitherto CEO of Visa, Charles W. Scharf. Himanshu has been a regular speaker at the Big Data and Machine Learning events such as the Data Science UA Conference, DataTalks Club, and Entrepreneur First Tech Scout sessions. He is also a dedicated fitness enthusiast, avid cinephile, and voracious reader. Ai Palette has won several accolades & awards in their short period of existence such as Top 10 Global Food & Retail Tech startup at Kickstart Innovation'20 at Switzerland, Top 15 Global FoodTech Startup at Slingshot'19 in Singapore, Top 200 Global startups at HKSTP Epic'20 at HongKong, and Top 500 Global FoodTech startups by Forward Fooding (the Fortune 500 list of AgriFoodTech). About 50% of their customers are Fortune 500 companies, and they are proud to count the #1 Snacks, #1 Breakfast, #1 Ingredient Company, and #1 Flavor House among their customers. Himanshu's education history includes a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, and high school from General B C Joshi Army Public School, Pithoragarh. His tech stack includes AI, Senior Software Engineer, Big Data, ML, NLP, Data Scientist, and Hadoop. With 7.78 years of relevant experience, Himanshu is actively hiring for his team at Ai Palette.