More about Nisarg Pandya
Nisarg Pandya is the founder and CEO @drivebuddyAI - An AI & Telematics arm of Roadzen. DrivebuddyAI was founded in 2018 by Nisarg Pandya and later acquired by Roadzen Technologies in 2019.
Nisarg has been an entrepreneur and driving the growth of drivebuddyAI since the inception. He is an engineer entrepreneur and started the product building at drivebuddyAI with ideation stage, market research, early customer adoption and successfully achieved the product market fit. He has successfully closed funding & acquisition deal with Roadzen in 2019 and since then deeply involved in product development and launched it within 10 months of time. Nisarg has been the driving force for drivebuddyAI and he is scaling up the product & company to the next level.
Nisarg is an Electronics Engineer by education and has previously worked in Embedded domain companies like Group10 Technologies, SLS Corp & Dattus where he was responsible for developing products in the domain of IOT & Connected Vehicles. Nisarg holds Masters degree in VLSI & Embedded Systems having expertise in Embedded Software, Embedded Hardware, Cloud Services & Artificial Intelligence.
Nisarg has been an entrepreneur and driving the growth of drivebuddyAI since the inception. He is an engineer entrepreneur and started the product building at drivebuddyAI with ideation stage, market research, early customer adoption and successfully achieved the product market fit. He has successfully closed funding & acquisition deal with Roadzen in 2019 and since then deeply involved in product development and launched it within 10 months of time. Nisarg has been the driving force for drivebuddyAI and he is scaling up the product & company to the next level.
Nisarg is an Electronics Engineer by education and has previously worked in Embedded domain companies like Group10 Technologies, SLS Corp & Dattus where he was responsible for developing products in the domain of IOT & Connected Vehicles. Nisarg holds Masters degree in VLSI & Embedded Systems having expertise in Embedded Software, Embedded Hardware, Cloud Services & Artificial Intelligence.
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