Meet the Minds Behind Wizly
Founders who’ve lived the challenge and built a solution.
Samir Khadepaun
Founder
A serial entrepreneur and tech enthusiast, Samir is on a mission to transform how the world makes decisions. Before founding Wizly, he built Mobikon a SaaS platform that scaled to nine countries, served 6,000+ F&B businesses, and raised over $15M in capital. As Founder and CEO of Wizly, he’s building the next evolution of decision intelligence, where verified human expertise meets AI to turn questions into confident action. With over 15 years of experience building and scaling technology ventures, Samir believes trust and access are the new currencies of the future and is shaping a system where expertise can scale without losing its soul.
Puja Bharwani
Co-Founder, Strategy & Community
Puja is a storyteller and co-founder of Wizly, on a mission to make human expertise more actionable in the age of AI. With two decades of experience across journalism (Reuters), venture capital (Antler), and technology, she has dedicated her career to exploring how trust, access, and human insight shape better decisions. At Wizly, she leads partnerships and expert growth, helping domain leaders scale their knowledge through an AI-first platform that redefines how expertise is shared, accessed, and monetized. Her why remains simple: to share knowledge most effectively and equitably, because the right insight, at the right time, can change everything.
Sameen Desai
Co-founder, Head of AI
Sameen is an AI innovator and product leader focused on transforming how intelligence flows through organizations. As Co-Founder and Head of AI at Wizly, he leads the development of its decision intelligence architecture merging verified human expertise with advanced AI to help leaders move from question to confident action. Before Wizly, he led a $50M joint venture to build an ML-based SaaS product for R&D, cutting costs and improving efficiency through large-scale knowledge graph design. His vision is to build a human-led, AI-augmented ecosystem where expertise scales authentically and data turns into wisdom.flows seamlessly across enterprises.
Kapil Shah
Co-Founder, Design & Product
Kapil is an innovative leader with over two decades of experience in product management, design thinking, and strategy. He specializes in enhancing user experience, driving operational efficiency, and improving customer satisfaction across global organizations. Before joining Wizly, he led customer experience for the region at BoardRoom Group and held key roles at Macquarie Group, shaping initiatives that bridged business goals with user needs. Kapil thrives on collaboration, bold ideas, and building cultures of experimentation that unlock creativity and performance.
Advisors Shaping the Future
Guiding Wizly’s mission to help business leaders decide smarter, faster
Natalie Monbiot
AI Strategist
Natalie pioneers AI and virtual human technologies as Founder of Virtual Human Economy. (VHE) She advises startups, brands, and VCs on leveraging AI-powered human identity solutions.
Jessica Nolan
Executive Coach - Consultant
A dynamic, people-driven leader with over a decade of experience shaping inclusive, high-performing cultures. With expertise in HR systems, communications, and engagement, Jessica builds environments where people, purpose, and performance thrive.
Diana Stepner
Product Leader
Diana Stepner is a product leader with 20+ years of experience in startups, enterprises, and consulting. She fosters a learning culture, drives innovation, and excels in mentoring with vision and compassion. She has previously held leadership roles at Salesforce & Pearson.
Our investors
Wizly is backed by Antler and a distinguished network of angel investors from Silicon Valley and Asia.
Gokul Rajaram
INVESTOR
Jayesh Parekh
INVESTOR