Our Mission

Andy Pandharikar

CEO, Founder

Andy Pandharikar is the CEO, Founder of Commerce.AI. His previous startup was acquired by Flipkart group, which later got acquired by Walmart for $16B. Prior to that, Andy held various product and engineering positions at Cisco. He is also a member of SF Angels Group and has invested in a number of startups as an angel investor. He attended M.S. in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and an Executive Degree at Harvard Business School. Andy is an outdoor enthusiast, an ultramarathoner, and a certified lead rock climber.

Lu Feng

Co-Founder/Data Science

Before joining Commerce.AI founding team, Lu was a researcher at MIT. She finished her Ph.D. from MIT. Growing up in a family of mathematicians, Lu has always been fascinated by large scale unstructured data. She is also a prolific writer, writing fiction since she was 12. These passions attracted her to Commerce.AI's goal of building a massive AI platform that understands all the world's products. Lu is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Penn State Schreyer Honors Scholar.

Gonçalo Gil

Co-Founder/Data Science

Goncalo is building AI/Deep Learning for Commerce.AI. Before finishing his Ph.D from Stanford, Goncalo has been a successful tech entrepreneur. He brings in vast expertise in academic and professional disciplines. He has worked at the European Space Agency (ESA), studied fluid dynamics, and professionally competed to build a predictive model for the stock market. His keen interest in photography, combined with a quest to build an AI that truly understands images, has resulted in several projects and publications in deep learning.

Nate Orlin

Co-Founder/Engineering

Nate is the Co founder of Commerce.AI. He is responsible for core technology, product and all things engineering for the company. Before that he spent four years at IBM building enterprise grade large scale software empowering services related to IBM Watson. He has a deep passion for technology systems and architecture. Before that, he spent time at Cisco where he worked together with Andy. Nate holds BS in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is also a pro gamer and has earned several battle scars which he likes to share only in person!