About
Himanshu Upreti co-founded Ai Palette in 2018 through Entrepreneur First Singapore, developing an AI platform for consumer packaged goods product innovation that expanded to 27 markets before its acquisition by GlobalData in March 2025. At GlobalData, he leads Product and Technology for Agentic AI, managing an organization of more than 50 people building consumer insights platforms. Prior to Ai Palette, he worked in machine learning and big data at Visa Data Labs; his recognitions include Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and the IIT Guwahati Young Alumni Achiever Award 2025, and he is an angel investor in early-stage AI startups.
Cofounder at Ai Palette
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Ai Palette's investors · 9
500 GlobalSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2024AgFunderSan Francisco · $10K – $5M checks · since 2024Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksExfinity VenturesBengaluru · $500K – $3.5M checks · since 2024InnoVen CapitalSingapore · since 2024Kickstart InnovationZurichpi VenturesIndia · $250K – $3M checks · since 2024SGInnovateSingapore · $652K – $18M checksTin Men CapitalSingapore · $500K – $5M checks · since 2024
Co-founders at Ai Palette
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SOMSUBHRA CHOUDHURI
Experience
- Ai PaletteCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2018 — presentSingapore/ Bangalore
- Entrepreneur FirstFounder in Residence2018 — 2019Singapore
- VisaSenior Software Engineer2015 — 2018Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- IFCAM (Indo - French Centre for Applied Mathematics) Summer SchoolParticipant2015Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Indian Institute of Management, CalcuttaResearch Assistant2014Greater Kolkata Area
Skills & more
TeamworkAI StrategyGenerative AIAgentic AI DevelopmentLarge Language Models (LLM)Entrepreneurship1Product ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)2Business Intelligence8Algorithms1Data Modeling7Big Data Analytics4
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Machine LearningData SciencePythonRHiveYarnSparkData AnalysisOptimizationMicrosoft ExcelFlumeHBaseLanguages English · German · Hindi
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia - 2023 — Forbes
- CCA Administrator — Cloudera
- Data-driven Decision Making — PwC
- Data Science in Real Life — Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
- Machine Learning — Coursera
- Introduction to Data Science in Python — Coursera Course Certificates
- Apache Spark Certification Training — Edureka
- Cloudera Developer Training for Apache HBase — Cloudera
- The Data Scientist’s Toolbox — Coursera Course Certificates
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Himanshu Upreti?
- Himanshu Upreti co-founded Ai Palette in 2018 through Entrepreneur First Singapore, developing an AI platform for consumer packaged goods product innovation that expanded to 27 markets before its acquisition by GlobalData in March 2025. At GlobalData, he leads Product and Technology for Agentic AI, managing an organization of more than 50 people building consumer insights platforms. Prior to Ai Palette, he worked in machine learning and big data at Visa Data Labs; his recognitions include Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and the IIT Guwahati Young Alumni Achiever Award 2025, and he is an angel investor in early-stage AI startups.
- Where does Himanshu Upreti work?
- Himanshu Upreti is Cofounder of Ai Palette.
- What companies did Himanshu Upreti found?
- Himanshu Upreti founded Ai Palette.
- Where did Himanshu Upreti go to school?
- Himanshu Upreti studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computing); General B C Joshi Army Public School , Pithoragarh (High School, Physics).
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