2x founder

Rush Shahani

AI Lead | Prev: Co-Founder & CTO at Persana AI (Acquired) YC W23 | Author, Reliable AI Systems

Co-founder

2026AI Lead· Tribe AI

Founder · since 2018

Company

Tribe AI

Role

AI Lead

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Sales Agents with 100+ data sources to close more deals

Experience

Career

Tribe AI
AI Lead · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2026
Manning Publications Co.
Author · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – Present
2024
Orange Collective
Venture Partner · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – Present
2023
Rox
Engineering Lead, Prospecting · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – 2026
2025
Persana AI
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO (Acquired) · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2025
2023
LinkedIn
Senior Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2019 – 2023
2019
University of Waterloo
AI Researcher · Kitchener, Canada Area · 2019
2019
Element AI
Founder
AI Engineer, NLP · Montreal, Canada Area · 2018
2018
LinkedIn
Software Engineer · Sunnyvale, California · 2018
2018
Shopify
Software Engineer · 2016 – 2017
2016
LoyaltyOne
Software Engineer · Toronto, Canada Area · 2015
2015
John Fraser Secondary
Computer Science Teaching Assistant · Mississauga, Ontario, Canada · 2013 – 2014
2013

Co-Founder of Persana AI. I've been an AI Engineer focused on NLP for the last 5 years. Prev experience: LinkedIn, ElementAI (acquired), Shopify