Soumya Yadav is a VC fellow at Kalaari Capital focused on AI-SaaS, QuantumTech and consumer investments, bringing nine years of operator experience across product, analytics and AI roles. Previously she scaled data- and product-driven initiatives at Flipkart through progressive roles from Analyst to Manager and built novel monocular depth-perception algorithms during research internships. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees, she blends rigorous engineering training in transportation and civil domains with hands-on ML and product development. Soumya’s profile reflects a practitioner-turned-investor mindset: comfortable vetting technical founders while empathizing with the execution challenges of hypergrowth startups. Her GitHub bio—“Experiencing a new life every day”—underscores a curiosity-driven approach to learning across research, applied AI and venture.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Mask R-CNN for object detection and instance segmentation on Keras and TensorFlow
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