Aakrit Vaish

Co-founder and CEO, Haptik

Aakrit Vaish is the co-founder and CEO of Haptik, one of the world’s largest conversational AI companies. Aakrit started the company in 2013 and lead it to a successful strategic investment with Reliance Industries in 2019 in a $100 million transaction. Today, Haptik processes close to 100 million users annually, has presence across 7 global locations, and counts Oyo Rooms, KFC, Samsung, CocaCola amongst its marquee clients.

Aakrit invests in start-ups in the areas of consumer internet, SaaS and direct to consumer brands. He has been a part of prestigious Entrepreneur 35 Under 35 and Business World 40 Under 40 Lists.
Aakrit started his career in San Francisco as the 12th employee at a mobile analytics start-up Flurry (exited to Yahoo! in a $280 million deal), after having finished his B.S. in Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.