Overview
Pradeep Shekaran is the founder and chief executive of EpicureAI Labs, which he founded in September 2025. He is based in Bengaluru. Since July 2025 he has also been a director of Streakify Technologies Private Limited.
Before that he was data operations manager at Micron Technology from September 2022 to June 2025, and an associate manager at Wipro Limited from May 2021 to September 2022. He spent more than nine years at IBM, joining as a senior engineer in April 2012, moving to business analyst in January 2015 and then to delivery manager from December 2017 until May 2021. His career began at Mphasis, where he was an associate engineer from August 2011 to April 2012.
Shekaran holds a Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, an MBA in business analytics from IFIM Institutions, and a post graduate programme in cloud computing from Great Learning. He took a PhD in business analytics at Woxsen University in February 2022. He attended St. Joseph's Pre-University College from 2005 to 2007.
Career history
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- Happy Engineers’ Day! 👨💻⚙️ Engineers don’t just solve problems. We imagine how life could be better — and then build it. From bridges to chips, software to AI, engineering continues to make our world smarter, simpler, and possible. A tribute to every engineer who keeps asking: “How can this be better?” #EngineersDay #Engineering #Innovation #AI #Technology #EpicureAILabs
- One year as a founder. And I'm still pre-launch. 🙂 A year ago, I stepped into entrepreneurship as a first-time, first-generation founder. I knew many of the concepts theoretically — strategy, financials, product, markets, pitch decks. But implementation has a very different syllabus. I explored ideas. Built prototypes. Spoke to people. Tested assumptions. Pursued learning from Stanford and other programs. Travelled to Brussels to explore building the business in Europe. And eventually, stepped back and pivoted. Today, I'm
- India's 80th Independence Day — Jai Hind 🧡 🤍 💚
- Five days with the TACTOS Investment Readiness Cohort, and I'm still processing how much shifted. As a first-time founder, I'd been running largely on conviction and gut instinct. What this cohort gave me was structure — bottom-up financial modelling, how investors actually value a pre-revenue company, what due diligence really looks for, and how to position a brand around the customer's problem rather than my product's features. The real value wasn't just the frameworks. It was the confidence that comes from knowing your numbers
- In 2014, Sam Altman published a YC Request for Startups titled "One Million Jobs." The premise: fund companies that could create a million new jobs, because "as existing jobs go away, a company that creates a lot of new jobs should be able to get a lot of talented people." Reading it in 2026 is a strange experience. A decade later, the conversation has flipped. We're no longer mostly asking who will create the next million jobs — we're asking how AI will reshape the ones we have. And the technology driving much of that shift traces
- Overwhelmed to see fresh minds with extreme potential! Bring it on! 🚀 Over the past few weeks I've been meeting a wave of young engineers eager to build with AI — and it's been genuinely energizing. So we're opening the door properly. We're hiring an 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 at EpicureAI Labs (DPIIT-recognized, Bengaluru). We're building agentic AI products in healthcare and workforce intelligence — real products shipping to real users, not toy demos. As an intern here, you'll work directly with our
- Today, on National Doctors' Day, I want to acknowledge someone whose thinking has quietly shaped how we approach healthcare through AVOLA — Dr.Satish jk. As a mentor to our team, Dr. Satish has consistently pushed us to prioritise clinical rigour over speed, and patient trust over convenience. It's a discipline that changes what you build, and how you build it. Dr. Satish and to every doctor holding families together — thank you. The country is better for the care you give. #NationalDoctorsDay #Healthcare #AVOLA
- Heading to Tamilpreneur Grand Sangamam 2026 — Beyond Boundaries 🚀 Excited to be part of this gathering of 1000+ founders and 20+ VC firms at Sheraton Grand, Whitefield on July 4th. I'll be there representing EpicureAI Labs, where we're building agentic AI products that solve real problems — not chasing hype. My current focus: Forsight — an AI workforce readiness platform. Every company is investing in AI right now, but almost none of them actually know if their people are ready to use it. Forsight gives every employee a verified AI
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