Shakeel Rashed

Emerging Tech with AI/ML. Startups. Investments.

๐Ÿ“ Austin, Texas, United States๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 9 investments๐Ÿ“… 11 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Apr 2017๐• @upgrade_to_unlock
VC๐ŸŒ United States
9
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5
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1
Mid stage
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11y
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Portfolio

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Advisor/Investor
Apr 2017
We help Fortune 5,000 companies enforce policy compliance by proactively delivering targeted guidance and communication as employees engage with any travel website. Our browser extension tracks web traffic and pops up behavioral prompts to guide employees to safer and more sustainable travel. Shep is now a part of Flight Centre Travel Group!
Board Member
Jan 2017
Transforming clinical trials through Machine Learning: Real World Data to Real World Evidence https://patternsciences.co/
Board Member
Feb 2016
BLiNk AI solves the most difficult problems that auto dealership service departments face. By focusing on the customer experience first, BLiNk AI fills your service department all day long, while eliminating long wait times and keeping your CSI and service retention in the green. BLiNK AI #1 For a Reason!
Advisor/Investor
Mar 2015
Cerebri AI solves problems โ€“ we solve your problems by using state-of-the-art data engineering and AI modeling to provide you with insights that will help you crush your competitors. Better decisions start with better data that drive deeper insights into your business. We use our ATQ data engineering platform to provide our reporting and modeling engines with the highest quality data possible. What data quality level do we have to get to? Certainly, a higher quality level than what everyone else uses โ€“ especially your competitors! And we do it in near real-time. What is the use of having better data to work with in making decisions if it arrives after it is needed? Our data engineering platform does not simply pass the data along; we have dozens of data transformers that can be deployed to QA and reconcile data from as many datasets as are required to get the job done. The goal of our data engineering is to get to one source of truth that includes the engineered features selected by our data scientists that drive the best possible results. Our one source of truth drives all of our reporting, business intelligence modeling, and our AI modeling. No more second guessing if the data matches up one report to another, including AI-based metrics. High-quality data drives the very best results when coupled with a wealth of data science experience. Our team has done over 100 installations in the largest corporate users in the world over the past two decades. We love solving the most complex analytical problems. We love corporate travel because most of the corporate travel datasets in this $1 trillion spend category reside outside of the enterprise, thus requiring serious levels of data engineering to make them useful. We love sustainability problems, including the challenges of calculating CO2 emissions. If you think we can help, please contact us; we would love to hear from you.
Board Member
Mar 2015
Negative patient experiences cost hospitals millions of dollars each year through lost reimbursements, decreased referrals, and increased staff turnover. NarrativeDx uses AI to identify actionable insights from patient feedback to improve CAHPS scores, increase referrals and reduce nurse turnover. We go beyond survey scores by analyzing comments from rounding tools, satisfaction surveys, online reviews, social media and beyond to help hospitals provide excellent experiences that drive up to 50% improvement in financial performance. PATIENT EXPERIENCE ANALYTICS Understand your whole world of patient feedback Driving exceptional patient experience with the NarrativeDx analytics platform is the right strategy for better clinical outcomes and growth. Identify root-cause insights to drive business decisions While healthcare organizations have plenty of check-box patient feedback scores from sources like HCAHPS, internal surveys, and rounding, this information doesnโ€™t reveal the real reasons why patients feel the way they do. Leverage the most powerful patient experience solution available The true value of your patient feedback comes from analyzing both your quantitative (checkbox) and qualitative (comments) data. Only then can you begin to understand key issues and create focused improvement plans.
Board Member
Mar 2015
We traveled the world during our college semester abroad and stumbled upon loose tea for the first time. It was in a tiny Czech teahouse in the center of Prague that got us hooked on tea. We returned to the US and quickly discovered a problem. If we wanted loose tea, we had to go out of our way to a specialty store, pay an absurd price and confront confusing tea names and origins. The tea world was filled with too much jargon and stereotypes of stuffy tea parties. What if we flipped it upside down? We started Tiesta Tea to revolutionize the way people consume tea. Finding the right tea should be simple: what will it do for me and what does it taste like. By focusing on function and flavor, we make tea approachable and easy to understand. We created five functional categories based on the health benefits that each blend naturally gives you. We also believe that life is about more than just tea and business. We believe in using our platform to give back directly to people in need in our communities. Billions of people lack access to clean water. To combat that, we set aside a portion of sales from each of our bottled teas to build water wells. We build these wells in communities in Nigeria that grow some of our ingredients. Because we want to support the communities that support us. Millions more do not have a place to sleep at night. Every January, our team and volunteers gather together to pass out hot tea and Warmth Kits to those living on the cold city streets of Chicago. We believe businesses shouldnโ€™t just generate profits, they should do good, too. Itโ€™s really that simple. Do what you love, step out of your comfort zone and be you. Be the best version of yourself that you can be and help others to do the same. Live Loose, The Tiesta Tea Team RECENT AWARDS + INC. BEST WORKPLACES 2018 + INC. RISING STARS - 30 UNDER 30 2018 + INC. 5000 FASTEST GROWING COMPANY 2017 & 2018 + CRAINS 20 IN THEIR 20s 2018
Investor
Mar 2015
Chiron Health is a modern telemedicine platform designed to get physician practices fully reimbursed for video visits. With the industry's first telemedicine insurance rules engine and seamless integration with leading outpatient EHR and practice management systems, Chiron is helping bring telemedicine into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Learn about Chiron Health in 90 seconds: https://vimeo.com/197926880
Experience ยท 16 entries
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Investments (9)
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Board (6)
2017
Capital Factory
Managing Director/Advisor, Accelerator
Dec 2017
Advisor/Investor
Apr 2017
We help Fortune 5,000 companies enforce policy compliance by proactively delivering targeted guidance and communication as employees engage with any travel website. Our browser extension tracks web traffic and pops up behavioral prompts to guide employees to safer and more sustainable travel. Shep is now a part of Flight Centre Travel Group!
Pattern Sciences
Board Member
Jan 2017
Board Member
Jan 2017
Transforming clinical trials through Machine Learning: Real World Data to Real World Evidence https://patternsciences.co/
2016
Board Member
Feb 2016
BLiNk AI solves the most difficult problems that auto dealership service departments face. By focusing on the customer experience first, BLiNk AI fills your service department all day long, while eliminating long wait times and keeping your CSI and service retention in the green. BLiNK AI #1 For a Reason!
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