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Acceler8
AI for Workforce Intelligence & Planning (2x founder who raised $80M, $700k Live ARR)
$700K+ Live ARR in 6 months, growing 20% MoM. $6M strong pipeline. Trusted by Fortune 500 CEOs spend $400B on AI transformation, consulting, and systems — and still can't answer their most critical workforce questions without months of manual work. What should org look like as humans and AI agents work side by side? Which roles to automate? Where to redeploy talent? Who should step into critical roles? Today these decisions run through spreadsheets, consultants, and static HR systems. They take months, cost millions, and are outdated before they land. As AI compresses years of org change into quarters, workforce decisions can no longer happen once a year. Acceler8 makes them continuous with agentic AI. Founders: • Chinmay is 2nd-time founder, raised $80M from Peter Thiel fund, Goodwater, DST, YC. ~$250M valuation. Scaled to team of 400. IIT Bombay • Trish was Chief People Officer for 35 markets. Led workforce restructuring for 30 companies as Director at PwC. Stanford GSB
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Meet the Team
Co-Founder at Acceler8
Chinmay Chauhan
• 2nd-time Founder: previously raised $80M from Peter Thiel's fund, Goodwater, DST & YC; scaled to 400 employees, $5B in payments • Forbes 30 Under 30 • Product Leader at Grab, which acquired Uber SE Asia business, during 21x hypergrowth • IIT Bombay, Computer Science • Angel investor in 40+ startups
Co-Founder at Acceler8
Trisha Pathak
One of youngest Director at Big 4. Restructured 30+ companies, globally. Chief People Officer for Global Energy Company. Wharton Fellow and Stanford-GSB. I built Acceler8—an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform that shows who is ready to step up, who needs support, and where tough decisions are needed—driven not by gut feel, but by agentic AI.



