About NeoPhoenix
Builders who’ve shipped for enterprises — now building for themselves.
Our mission
Serious, production-grade AI for the organisations that must follow enterprise rules — and could never afford enterprise tools.
Where we started
We set out to build our own foundation model.
We failed — and the failure taught us two things.
First, that the real capability was not training a model but fine-tuning and deploying open-source models anywhere a customer needed them, inside their own walls.
Second, that for most Indian organisations, governed data is not a preference; it is a compliance mandate they cannot meet with any tool on the market.
NeoPhoenix exists at the intersection of those two lessons: governed AI that runs where the data already is, priced for the organisations the global platforms were never built for.
Team
The team behind NeoPhoenix
- Hareen DesaiCEO & Co-FounderAI architect and product builder with a proven track record of engineering complex enterprise systems across highly regulated domains. Focused on building scalable AI infrastructure ecosystems, product innovation, and secure multi-product rollouts.
- Priyanka RavalCTO & Co-FounderDistributed systems engineer specializing in high-throughput AI platforms, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, and secure enterprise architectures. Drives core product engineering from architectural design to hardened production delivery.
- Raunaq KatariaCCO & Founding MemberTechnology and business advisor guiding AI strategy, product positioning, and market direction.
- Shailee DesaiHead of EngineeringOversees engineering lifecycles, platform release velocity, and operational infrastructure, with a focus on shipping high-performance, production-grade enterprise software.