About Us

OUR TEAM

Our leadership team

The Ripik.AI leadership is composed of ex-IITans with 30+ years of experience in cement, steel, metal, and pharma industries and expertise in change management.

Pinak Dattaray

Founder & CEO

10+ years of experience in Industry 4.0 across industries
Previously led 0 to 1 journey of Industry 4.0 practice at McKinsey
Served 20+ clients across Metals, Auto, Chemicals and Power
B.Tech, IITD, MBA IIM, Calcutta

Navneet Singh

CAO

8+ years of experience in Data Analytics domain
Previously, data science expert in McKinsey
Built and deployed 30+ use cases in Aluminum, Power, Steel and Chemical
B.Tech, IIT Delhi

Arunabh Biyani

CRO

7+ years of experience in Manufacturing Al
Previously, Engagement manager at McKinsey
Key role in building the industry 4.0 practice at McKinsey across Pharma, Steel and Consumer Goods
B.Tech, BITS Pilani, MBA, IIM C

Trinanjan Sarkar

CTO

15+ years of experience in building Al products across manufacturing industries
Ex-Google, Ex- McKinsey, Ex-IBM
Led 0 to 1 digital transformation journey for 25+ clients
MBA ISB, Hyderabad

ADVISORS

Our expert panel at Ripik.AI

Our distinguished expert panel harnesses AI expertise to innovate in SaaS, significantly advancing industrial automation technologies and strategies.

Luc Bonte

Ex-Country President, Arcelor Belgium

Specialty : Maintenance methodology, Ironmaking & Steel, Cape & Opex modeling

Sujesh Vasudevan

Ex-President Glen Pharma - India, ME and Africa

Specialty : Pharma, Lifescience

Shripad Nadkarni

Ex-VP, Johnson & Johnson

Specialty : Automobile, Food & Beverage, Apparel

Shirish Belapure

Senior Technical Advisor at IPA (Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance)

Specialty : Pharma, Lifescience

OUR TEAM

Tech team

50+ member and growing team
5+ Front-end Developers
3+ Back-end Developer
8+ Machine Learning Engineers
10+ IIT Graduates
2+ UI/UX experts

OUR CULTURE

Fire in the belly, gratitude in heart and curiosity in mind

OUR INVESTORS

Financial backers fueling our journey

Ripik.AI is a leading Applied AI enterprise focused at reducing variability in process manufacturing. We are Accel backed, YC qualified and have a group of 45 distinguished angels.

Accel led our pre seed and pre series A round

Co-led our pre series A round

Y Combinator selected us as part of YC S22 cohort

ANGELS