Izhaar Tejani
Izhaar Tejani — entrepreneur and AI strategist, portrait

Izhaar Tejani

About

I began my career as an intern at McKinsey & Company, where I advised the Canadian Government on AI public policy after the ImageNet Breakthrough at the University of Toronto.

In 2016, I started building a health AI lab in partnership with LEO Pharma, NVIDIA, and Google Cloud, backed by investors like Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist of Google and DeepMind. We built a system proven to be superior to dermatologists at diagnosing deadly skin conditions like melanoma with agentic AI. My research on this was cited by Harvard and Tsinghua. In 2023, we were the first backers of AutoGPT, which quickly became the fastest-growing GitHub repo of all time with over 170k stars. My work has been recognized by Nobel laureate, Geoffrey Hinton in some interviews.

Outside of AI, I helped build a music producer from 0-1 that resulted in over 6M record sales, built up a DJ in London from zero to fifty million organic TikTok and Instagram views, and worked with the founder of a CPG company to go from zero to #1 best-selling product at 7-Eleven in Canada.

Izhaar Tejani