Ajay Malhotra
Chair Of The Board Of Directors at Tacenda Capital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAjay Malhotra is a hands‑on founder, investor and AI strategist with 11 years of formal experience leading startups, mentoring founders, and shaping early‑stage capital as Chair of York Angel Investors. He combines multiple successful exits and operator experience—from CTO and CEO roles to strategic advisory positions—with a first‑principles, extreme‑ownership approach to building companies that aim to redefine markets. Based in Toronto, he balances board leadership and angel investing with active roles as a limited partner at several funds and as CEO of FIYGE RESEARCH Inc., bringing both deal‑flow insight and product intuition. His background spans deep technical roles and quantitative product leadership (CTO/Quant work at Espilo) plus formal study in machine learning and finance, enabling him to bridge technical, regulatory and market perspectives. Notably, he pairs global engineering experience dating to the 1990s with recent training as a regulated Canadian immigration consultant, reflecting a pragmatic blend of technical, business and policy savvy.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant Immigration Law, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant Immigration Law at CDI CollegeBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at IBM-ACE, a joint program of IBM & IIT KanpurUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of DelhiCourse in Financial Markets Finance General, Course in Financial Markets Finance General at Yale UniversityMaster's Degree Information Technology, Master's Degree Information Technology at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMUCourse in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence, Course in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (5)
czarcrab/Zorro
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
czarcrab/tv-indicators-strategies
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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