The people behind Tensile
Unmukt Raizada, Ankit Saxena and Deepika Rao are co-founders of Tensile. Together, they bring experience across regulated data systems, applied AI, finance, enterprise products and building companies.
Co-founders

Co-founder
Unmukt sets company direction and stays close to product and engineering work. His public background includes Chief Data Architect at Goldman Sachs, VP Applied AI/ML at JPMorgan, AVP at Airtel / Wynk, and co-founder of Thena.
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Co-founder
Ankit leads engineering, architecture and technical delivery. He co-founded Thena, backed by Lightspeed and First Round; was Branch’s first international hire and general manager for Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa; and was CTO of LetsIntern through its acquisition by Aspiring Minds.
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Co-founder
Deepika is a Chartered Accountant turned product leader and AI-native builder. She began her career in risk advisory at Mahajan & Aibara, then ran a CA practice supporting startups. She later moved into product roles at Scaler and Thena, working on 0→1 products, internal tools and complex B2B workflows in senior and founding product roles. Her focus is applying AI and automation to improve complex business processes. She brings business context, product judgment and execution together to identify useful opportunities, shape practical solutions and work across teams to take them forward.
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