Rishi Deshpande

Founding and scaling AI products | Ex-Opentable/Booking, Whiterabbit/Radnet, Stanford, IIT Bombay

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
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Founding investor
Mar 2022
Babblebots.ai platform helps you hire in 3 days, instead of 30 days. The AI-Recruiters help conduct near-human voice interviews and assess candidates, to give you the top candidates for any role. We leverage voice, natural language, and generative AI to tackle long-form conversations and speak to candidates in their natural language. How Babblebots.ai is helping talent/recruitment teams and recruitment agencies: - Invites 100s of candidates for interviews with a single click - Fully customizable and intelligent interviews using proprietary models, generative AI models, and voice synthesis. - Deep assessments on skills, personality, soft skills, and communications using AI-models - AI Matching to highlight the best candidates for every role - Two-factor candidate verification using voice biometrics and video imaging We are fully GDPR compliant. Babblebots.ai is built by a team of IITians and entrepreneurs and is backed by serial entrepreneurs. If you are a leader, CHRO, or recruiter looking to build great teams efficiently with AI-Recruiters, get in touch with us today. Follow us on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@Babblebots-YT
Investor/Advisor
Nov 2015
Oorjan is a technology-enabled distributed solar company in India, serving residential, commercial, and industrial end users. We offer turn-key projects, including funding solutions, to consumers. Our comprehensive offering features premium solar products from international brands, easy financing options, seamless installations, and hassle-free maintenance. Through partnerships with banks and private investors, Oorjan offers diverse financing choices to consumers, including loans under Capex, Opex, BOOT, and PPA (Power Purchase Agreement). Oorjan possesses proprietary technology for site assessment, proposal creation, and IoT-based remote monitoring. This technology provides real-time and historical generation and savings data, along with proactive maintenance alerts. We have licensed these tools to over 20 installers across India. In a short span, Oorjan has garnered more than 4500 customers across 22 states and has emerged as one of Indias fastest-growing technology-driven companies. The company is co-founded by three IIT Mumbai (and ISB / Stanford / Berkeley) alumni with experiences across renewable energy, engineering, EPC, finance, and building large businesses.
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2022
Founding investor
Mar 2022
Babblebots.ai platform helps you hire in 3 days, instead of 30 days. The AI-Recruiters help conduct near-human voice interviews and assess candidates, to give you the top candidates for any role. We leverage voice, natural language, and generative AI to tackle long-form conversations and speak to candidates in their natural language. How Babblebots.ai is helping talent/recruitment teams and recruitment agencies: - Invites 100s of candidates for interviews with a single click - Fully customizable and intelligent interviews using proprietary models, generative AI models, and voice synthesis. - Deep assessments on skills, personality, soft skills, and communications using AI-models - AI Matching to highlight the best candidates for every role - Two-factor candidate verification using voice biometrics and video imaging We are fully GDPR compliant. Babblebots.ai is built by a team of IITians and entrepreneurs and is backed by serial entrepreneurs. If you are a leader, CHRO, or recruiter looking to build great teams efficiently with AI-Recruiters, get in touch with us today. Follow us on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@Babblebots-YT
2015
Investor/Advisor
Nov 2015
Oorjan is a technology-enabled distributed solar company in India, serving residential, commercial, and industrial end users. We offer turn-key projects, including funding solutions, to consumers. Our comprehensive offering features premium solar products from international brands, easy financing options, seamless installations, and hassle-free maintenance. Through partnerships with banks and private investors, Oorjan offers diverse financing choices to consumers, including loans under Capex, Opex, BOOT, and PPA (Power Purchase Agreement). Oorjan possesses proprietary technology for site assessment, proposal creation, and IoT-based remote monitoring. This technology provides real-time and historical generation and savings data, along with proactive maintenance alerts. We have licensed these tools to over 20 installers across India. In a short span, Oorjan has garnered more than 4500 customers across 22 states and has emerged as one of Indias fastest-growing technology-driven companies. The company is co-founded by three IIT Mumbai (and ISB / Stanford / Berkeley) alumni with experiences across renewable energy, engineering, EPC, finance, and building large businesses.
2012
Founder and CTO
Nov 2012
OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), has been proudly serving restaurants for over 25 years—resulting in a network of over 60,000 restaurants, bars, and wineries around the world. From “Where should we eat?” to “Your table is ready,” OpenTable is the bridge between restaurants and diners. For restaurants, OpenTable is an all-in-one solution that helps streamline FOH and BOH operations, puts them in front of new guests, and backs it all up with 24/7 customer support in 240 languages. Plus, OpenTable is integrated with hundreds of technology partners to help restaurants run seamlessly. All so restaurants can focus on what they do best: providing amazing hospitality and food. For diners, it’s the easiest way to discover new restaurants with personalized recommendations, data-backed lists, curated guides and more, and manage all your reservations through an intuitive app. After all, dining out is better when it runs smoothly on both sides of the table.