Abhinav SomaniFounder

United States - New York, New York

Abhinav (Abe) is an experienced investment, financial, technology, business development, product development, and operations strategist. He is currently building the Global AI platform, the world's first and only U.S publicly traded AI technology roll up consortium.

Abhinav works with his team across product development and engineering, operations, corporate and board room strategies, go to market, marketing, and sales strategies, partnership management, and customer relationship development.

In addition, Abe advises startups and manages his family office, The Princeton Family Value Investors Club, investing early in companies like DocuSign, Calm, Epic Games, Coinbase, Klarna, Robinhood, and many more.

Prior to Global AI, he was helping to build the world's largest facial recognition technology software at Clearview AI as COO. Prior to Clearview AI, Abhinav was CEO and built the global document data extraction platform, Leverton, before having an exit to MRI Software in 2019. Prior to that he was an Associate at ICV Partners where he worked rigorously with portfolio companies to improve their sales, enhance marketing, turnaround ailing business segments, and increase operational efficiencies. He worked directly with CEOs, COOs, and CFOs, using data-driven metrics and analyses to increase profitability and grow businesses. He has also looked at hundreds of investment opportunities, conducted countless financial analyses, and is well versed in the ways of the institutional investment community. His dedication to drive business growth and innovation has led him to appear in Forbes, VentureBeat, and CIO.

Beyond this, Abhinav is an entrepreneur and thought leader. As a member of the Forbes Technology Council he writes about Artificial Intelligence and FutureTech. He co-founded The Manhattan Project, NYC and the East Coast's largest not-for-profit Bollywood dance production, operating it for 6 years. He is very passionate about music, media, and the arts as he continues to DJ and produce music under the alias "B-Nasty". He also volunteers as President of this fraternity's endowment fund and sits on the Board of Directors of 16 Park Avenue.

Specialties: Venture Capital, Private Equity, High Growth Investing, Product Development, Operational Improvements, Business Development, Business Strategy, Corporate Finance, Rationale, but Creative Thinking