Ishani Thakur is a Partner at Hanabi Capital, previously serving as a Partner at Index Ventures. Her background includes AI research at DeepMind and MIT, and engineering roles at Confluent, Lyft Level 5, and Google.
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- MIT · AI researcher
- Index Ventures · Partner
- Hanabi Capital · PartnerNow
- Google
- Lyft Level 5
- Confluent
- DeepMind · AI researcher and software engineer
- MIT · AI researcher and software engineer
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Who is Ishani Thakur?
Ishani Thakur is a Partner at Hanabi Capital, previously serving as a Partner at Index Ventures. Her background includes AI research at DeepMind and MIT, and engineering roles at Confluent, Lyft Level 5, and Google.
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What did Ishani Thakur do before Hanabi Capital?
AI researcher at MIT; Partner at Index Ventures; Google; Lyft Level 5; Confluent; AI researcher and software engineer at DeepMind; AI researcher and software engineer at MIT.
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