Shailesh Kumar

Active Investor

Dean at Jio Institute

Hyderabad, Telangana

Shailesh Kumar, Dean at Jio Institute is an active investor based in Hyderabad, Telangana. This profile covers what Shailesh Kumar backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Shailesh Kumar serves as Chief Data Scientist, Center of Excellence in AI/ML at Jio. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Advisor at ZipLoan. He serves as Vice President at Ola Cabs. He was formerly the Vice President at Ola Cabs where he worked on several computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence and optimization issues in fleet management. He was also the Chief Scientist and Co- Founder of Third Leap - an EdTech startup that uses AI to create personalized math guides. Prior to this, Dr. Kumar worked at Google on a variety of products at Google involving Information Retrieval, Enterprise Search, Legal E-Discovery, Natural Language Understanding (Phrase Discovery, Word Sense Disambiguation), Computer Vision, Knowledge Graph Mining, Conversation Modelling, and Deep Learning on Text and Vision.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: Consumer & RetailDeveloper Tools & DataEdTechMedia & ContentSports & FitnessMarketing & AdTechHR & Future of WorkImpact & Social Enterprise
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 3

Notable investments

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