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Vikram Parekh

Founder

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IndiaBuilding since 2001 (~26 yrs)
LinkedIn
Headline

My path moves from corporate risk and audit leadership into a sustained run of founder ventures, all converging on the same question: how talent and opportunity find each other more accurately.

8+Years building ventures
5Companies founded/co-founded
5+Guest lecturing tenure

yrs

8Years in prior corporate risk roles
Represented Roles

Specialized Functions & Roles.

Engineering capabilities and specialized roles demonstrated across real production work.

Founder, Data/AI Talent Infrastructure

Primary Role

Recruitment Technology Entrepreneur

AI Product Builder for Recruiting

Information Risk & Governance Consultant

Signals

Live in Production.

Each signal ties back to a specific, evidenced moment.

Built

2 moments

Systems shipped end-to-end, from schema to deploy.

  • •Launched a professional identity platform for Data/AI talent
  • •Built an AI-native operating system for recruitment agencies

Led

2 moments

Architecture, mentorship and decisions owned solo.

  • •Set growth strategy with cofounder: organic over paid, targeting 50K graph profiles by March 2027
  • •Followed up the open beta launch with direct outreach to warm LinkedIn contacts, converting some into active users of the platform.

Learned

1 moment

New tools and depth picked up on the job.

  • •Experimenting with AI use cases for recruitment
Growth trajectory

Vikram's career, mapped.

A timeline of milestones captured directly from real work.

  1. Started in research and network administration

  2. Moved into IT risk and audit leadership

  3. Made the leap into founding and investing

  4. Took on business development leadership

  5. Committed fully to founder life

  6. Focused the mission on data & AI talent

  7. Expanded into professional identity and agency infrastructure

Stack

Daily tools.

What Vikram actually reaches for, pulled from the tags attached to captured moments.

Work

Key Projects By Role

Case studies, not bullet points - impact numbers attached to each one.

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Founder · 2026 - Present
Aug 2026 - Sep 2026

Professional identity platform for Data, AI & Analytics professionals to represent what they've built, learned and achieved, beyond resumes and LinkedIn profiles.

53 users as of Sep 11 2026, on the way to a 10K by end of 2026 and 50K by end of March 2027 targetAvoided an estimated $1M-$2M in paid acquisition spend by committing to an organic-only strategyCurrently in closed betaGrew closed beta to 30+ users as of Aug '26.
Stack:LinkedInProduct DevelopmentData/AI TalentStart-up
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estana

Founder · 2026 - Present
Apr 2026

AI-native operating system for recruitment agencies, designed to help agencies increase recruiter output and scale operations without proportionally increasing headcount.

Targets non-linear revenue growth without headcount growth
Stack:AIRecruitment TechSaaSStart-up
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datavruti

Co-Founder · 2024 - Present
Jul 2024

Talent infrastructure helping global enterprises and well-funded startups in the US and India hire deeply curated data talent, from Data Analysts to PhDs.

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SPJIMR

Guest Lecturer - Entrepreneurship · 2021 - Present

Multplyr

Founder · 2018 - 2025

Grass Roots India

Head of Sales and Marketing - Director and Board Member · 2015 - 2018

Optic Bridge Technologies & WireddIn Technologies

Founder - Director - Investor · 2013 - 2015
Apr 2013

NextGenCatalogs

B2B communication backbone enabling product-centric conversations between manufacturers, distributors and retailers.

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JPMorgan Services India Pvt Ltd

Vice President - Information Risk Manager · 2011 - 2013

Mondelēz International (Cadbury India Limited)

Manager - Internal Audit - Asia Pacific · 2008 - 2011

KPMG

Manager - IT Advisory Services · 2005 - 2008

Quantum Infotech, USA

SAP BW Consultant to Johnson & Johnson · 2004 - 2005

Eastern Michigan University

Research Analyst / Network Administrator · 2001 - 2004
Outside Work

Side projects, open source & publications.

Independent builds, open-source contributions, technical writing, and experiments beyond the day job.

Experiment

AI in Recruitment Experiments

Exploring several potential applications of AI within recruitment processes.

Learning

Formal record.

  • Start Your Business, Entrepreneurship
    S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
    2013
  • PMP
    2010
  • CISA
    2006
  • Master of Science (M.S.), Information Systems
    Eastern Michigan University
    2001 - 2004
  • G.D.Arch, Architecture
    L. S. Raheja School of Architecture
    1996 - 2000
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