Niosha Afsharikia, PhD

Founder, operator, and product builder with 10+ years navigating highly regulated AI deployments. Raised millions in funding across seed-stage startups and academic research. Developed and launched AI-enabled products for the US government and private sector. Shipped zero-to-one products with enterprise and Fortune 500 customers. As a founder hiring AI-native engineers, I lived firsthand the broken pipeline between developer talent and the companies racing to deploy AI.