Shailesh Jaiswal
Heading AI Initiatives | Ex-Founder & Product Builder | Forbes Select 200 | Building AI-powered products that solve real customer problems | Voice AI Expert
Bengaluru
5+ years of work experience
Mar 20267 mosPresent
Bengaluru
Taking care of all things AI.
Sep 20231 yr 1 moSep 2024
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
LiaPlus was the only selected startup from India from the cohort for the GAIA accelerator, one of the top AI accelerators in the world. The focus was on exploring the MENA market, strategy, and funding.
First Artificial Intelligence focused Accelerator in partnership with (Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) and National Technology and Development Program (NTDP)
Also, I shook hands with Bill Gates
Jan 20224 yrs 2 mosFeb 2026
New Delhi
Key Achievements & Impact:
- Capital Strategy & Fundraising: Led an INR 2,00,00,000 equity raise from Inflection Point Ventures and angel investors. Successfully secured non-dilutive innovation grants including INR 30 Lakhs (TIDE 2.0, Govt of India) and SAR 150,000 (NTDP, Saudi Arabia).
- Scale & Technical Leadership: Defined enterprise architecture and led a 15-member cross-functional engineering and product team to scale systems to handle 5,000+ concurrent calls/hour with <500ms latency, ~95% conversational accuracy, and 99.9% uptime.
- Enterprise Go-To-Market (GTM): Designed the pricing and enterprise sales motion, expanding operations across India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. This strategic deployment reduced enterprise client call handling time by 40% and improved CSAT by 30%.
- Government & Institutional Governance: Led complex regulatory approvals to successfully deploy the first voice AI solution live on a Government of India ministry platform, managing senior-level stakeholder communications across ministries and compliance bodies.
Some of the popular innovations of LiaPlus are: MeitY Mitra, LiaPlus Chatbot, LiaPlus Voicebot, LiaPlus Bridge (VaniSetu) - Voice Navigation & LiaPlus Forms (VaniPatra) - Voice assisted form filling.
I'm not a gambling man but if I were, I took a pretty big bet on myself. There was a chance that everything could go wrong. And I would walk away with nothing because I'm trying to do too much. It worked out quite well.
20211 yr2022
Bengaluru
- Selected from ~6,000 applicants for a Government-sponsored entrepreneurship program focused on venture creation and scale; graduated with 98% distinction.
- Led primary market validation: conducted 132 structured interviews and executed a 200-user pilot to test product-market fit.
- Developed a full venture blueprint including market sizing, revenue model, Lean Canvas, competitive analysis, and USP positioning.
Nov 20202 yrs 6 mosApr 2023
New Delhi
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Exited to focus fully on LiaPlus AI and its $200B+ Market.
Shailesh’s AI Stack
Education
Master's degree, Organisational Behaviour
Delhi University
Advanced Certificate Programme in AI, ML and DL
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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