Kahini Shah invests in robotics and frontier AI as a partner at Obvious Ventures. She previously invested at Gradient Ventures and worked in AI product development at Booz Allen Hamilton and embedded software at Lockheed Martin.

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Kahini Shah invests in robotics and frontier AI as a partner at Obvious Ventures. She previously invested at Gradient Ventures and worked in AI product development at Booz Allen Hamilton and embedded software at Lockheed Martin.

Career

Kahini Shah studied at The Wharton School (MBA, Finance and Entrepreneurship) and Carnegie Mellon University (MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering and BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering).

Partner at Obvious Ventures from 2024-07 to Present
AI Phase II Reviewer at National Science Foundation from 2020 to PresentReviews artificial intelligence proposals for grant funding.
Investor at Gradient Ventures from 2019 to 2022Invested at Google’s early-stage AI fund.
Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton from 2016-11 to 2017-07Managed product and sales for a natural-language-processing AI group.
Engineering Leadership Development Program at Lockheed Martin from 2012-07 to 2015-02

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10 Emerging Robotics Infrastructure Themes

Her analysis of the data, hardware and software infrastructure needed to take robots from prototypes into everyday deployment.

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From Autocomplete to Autonomy: The Evolution of AI Coding

Her view of autonomous coding workflows, the growing burden of review, and the data and reliability problems still limiting coding agents.

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The E.T.H.I.C.S. checklist to sustain and grow AI responsibly

Her explanation of Obvious’s six-part checklist for evaluating AI’s effects on people, from explaining decisions and checking bias to civic trust and environmental costs.

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