Akshat Mandloi
FounderFounder at Smallest AI
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedSmallest AI
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Akshat Mandloi is the co-founder of smallest.ai, where the company works with enterprises on building Voice AI workflows. His background is in AI, with a focus on computer vision and deep learning applied to autonomous vehicles.
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Smallest AI's investors · 6
3one4 CapitalGift City, Gandhinagar, Gujarat · $364K – $30M checks · since 2025Better CapitalSanta Clara · $5K – $100K checks · since 2025Insiders VenturesSt. Helier · since 2025peercheque$100K – $500K checks · since 2025Sierra VenturesSan Mateo · $500K – $10M checks · since 2025Upsparks CapitalBangalore · since 2025
Co-founders at Smallest AI
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Sudarshan KamathFounder
Experience
- smallest.aiCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
- BoschSenior Data Scientist2023 — 2024Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- BoschData Scientist2021 — 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Adarin Engineering Technologies Pvt. Ltd.Junior Researcher2020Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- edgetensorResearch Engineer (I)2020Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Tork MotorsR&D Engineer2019 — 2020Pune, Maharashtra, India
- SAE collegiate Club, IIT GuwahatiProject Mentor2018 — 2019IIT Guwahati
- Reliance Industries LimitedSummer Intern2018Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
- Automobile Club, IIT GuwahatiSecretary2017 — 2018Technical Board, Student's Gymkhana Council, IIT Guwahati
Skills & more
Design ThinkingAnalytical SkillsTeamwork1English1Software as a Service (SaaS)8SolidWorks1Microsoft Office2Matlab2Simulink2Arduino1C (Programming Language)1Start-up Leadership9
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Speech RecognitionSpeech ProcessingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cross-functional CoordinationResearch and Development (R&D)BatteriesElectric VehiclesMLOpsRoot Cause AnalysisData ScienceComputer VisionObject DetectionLanguages English · German · Hindi
- XCS224W - Machine Learning with Graphs — Stanford Online
- Python REST API's with Flask, Docker, MongoDB and AWS DevOps — Udemy
- Docker - SWARM - Hands-on-DEvOps — Udemy
- edX Verified Certificate for Data Structures & Algorithms I: ArrayLists, LinkedLists, Stacks and Queues — edX
- Python — TestDome
- NVIDIA DLI Certificate – Getting Started with AI on Jetson Nano — NVIDIA
- The Data Science Course 2020: Complete Data Science Bootcamp — 365 Careers
- Problem Solving (Basic) — HackerRank
- Duolingo German Fluency: Elementary (Estimated) — Duolingo
- Duolingo German Fluency: Beginner (Estimated) — Duolingo
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- Who is Akshat Mandloi?
- Akshat Mandloi is the co-founder of smallest.ai, where the company works with enterprises on building Voice AI workflows. His background is in AI, with a focus on computer vision and deep learning applied to autonomous vehicles.
- Where does Akshat Mandloi work?
- Akshat Mandloi is Founder of Smallest AI.
- What companies did Akshat Mandloi found?
- Akshat Mandloi founded Smallest AI.
- Where did Akshat Mandloi go to school?
- Akshat Mandloi studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering); Chameli Devi Public School (High School, Physical Sciences).
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