Co-founder at Sitch
Nandini Mullaji
Nandini is the Stanford GSB version of Sima Aunty from Indian Matchmaking. She has set up 3000+ of people (and 3 marriages) and has Top 10 dating substack "Guru Nandini Says." She has previously built two profitable consumer apps in dating and education, and has a passion for prompt engineering. Nandini graduated with an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Masters in Education from Stanford GSE in December 2022. Before that she was the Chief Product Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Lido Learning, at an early stage education tech company in Mumbai, India, that aims to revolutionize online education for K-12 and a Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company, Washington DC focusing on education, tech and digital sectors. Nandini graduated from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2017, where she founded the India Innovation Lab.
Questions & Answers
What's the story behind your company?
My grandmother was a successful matchmaker who set up 26 marriages. I was following in her footsteps, having set up 3000+ first dates and 3 marriages. But I knew that high touch, white glove matchmakers couldn't really scale beyond a point (too expensive, too much data). With large language models, I realized we could replicates the deeply personalized magic of human matchmaking in minutes—at a fraction of the cost, and actually build an AI agent to help manage people's dating lives.
