Surbhi is CEO and co-founder of Symbl.ai. Symbl is bringing to life her vision for a programmable platform that empowers developers to deploy conversational intelligence in their collaboration products and workflows. She co-founded Symbl (previously Rammer.ai) almost 2 years ago and was part of the Techstars Seattle ’19 class. Symbl raised an early-stage venture round of 1.8M six months ago. Symbl used the funding to grow a team of tech junkies to 25 people primarily distributed between India and Seattle. She comes with experience from technical and customer-obsessed roles in both startups and enterprises such as Nevis Networks and Amdocs. Before co-founding Symbl, she worked in the Conversational AI space with a focus on delivering value to Telco users. She is an advocate for Women in AI with a personal mission to inspire more women to work in Data Science.

In this session, Surbhi will cover:

- Key learnings for immigrant founders building a venture-backed business in the US
- How to leverage being an Indian and having roots in India to add to capital efficiency and velocity to the business
- Building B2B businesses in AI
- Raising venture capital
- The importance of networking 

About Startup Grind:

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 400 cities and 115 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators, and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies.

The event will be broadcast by video conference. The link will be sent to all registered participants.

Event content:

Brief introduction of Startup Grind (5 min)

Conversation between Surbhi and Àyush Jain (45min)

Question Time (10 mins)