Amitt Sharma
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Amitt Sharma is an entrepreneur, inventor,[1] researcher, and futurist. He is the founder and CEO of VDO.AI, a global video advertising platform and Z1 Media, a technology company building cutting edge products at the intersection of media and advertising with 200 employees and operations in 6 countries globally.[2][3][4][5]
Amitt started his first company at age 15. He has built over 30 different software products, many of which became category leading with millions of users globally. He has also sold 2 companies so far. He is passionate about innovation, technology, philosophy and physics, as well as building for the future. Sharma has built category leading software products with millions of users globally. He is also an avid traveler, adventurer and explorer, who has visited Antarctica on a research vessel in 2019.[6][7]
His primary interests lie in exploring how technology can benefit humanity, and is currently evaluating possibilities brought about by artificial general intelligence, synthetic biology and space exploration.
Career
Entrepreneurship
Sharma founded his first company at the age of 15. He began developing software for various video games and utilities to keep users entertained, which are being used globally by millions today.
In 2011, Sharma started Zomobo, a social encyclopedia, and real-time multimedia company. Before which, he co-founded SuperSource, a software development and internet marketing company in 2007.
Sharma co-founded StatMyWeb in 2012, a leading web analytics and third-party web statistics platform which had 30 million users at its peak.
Sharma co-founded SocialStar and Ozock in 2015. As an early mover in influencer marketing, the platform had leading celebrities like Hulk Hogan, Sean Kingston, and Sunny Leone among other leading influencers on Facebook as partners. SocialStar had a monthly organic reach of 200 million users, and the content platform Ozock was among the top 300 websites in the world as per Alexa rankings.
In 2015, apart from his entrepreneurial career, Sharma worked with NASA as an innovator for SpaceApps. He invented a smart space glove with a gesture control unit that senses EMG motor neuron activity from natural hand gestures performed by a human, and translates it into intended actions like maneuvering a rover, controlling a camera, activating sensors, and more.[8]
In 2017, Sharma founded Receptix, a data-driven digital job advertising platform. The company is headquartered in the US, and has over 10 million subscribers, and works with many leading F500 enterprise clients across multiple industries.[9]
In 2018, Sharma co-founded VDO.AI with Arjit SachdevaI.[10] The company functions as a video advertising platform, which aims to help web publishers access the advantages of video content. VDO.AI pioneers in tapping the digital advertising space and empowers business with increased user engagement and monetization.[11][12]
Presently, Sharma serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Z1 Media, a media and advertising company that operates top ranking platforms and properties across the web and mobile.
Research Contributions
Sharma was inclined towards the possibilities of technology making the world a better place. Simultaneous to his professional career, Sharma has enjoyed contributing to expanding the total sum of human knowledge by publishing his research in various leading journals, including the biggest technology journal globally, IEEE.
- "An approach towards feature specific opinion mining and sentimental analysis across e-commerce websites,” published in September 2014.
- “MOOCs: A comprehensive study to highlight its strengths and weaknesses,” published in October 2015.
- “Categorical classification and deletion of spam images on smartphones using image processing and machine learning,” published in December 2017.
- “An Approach Towards Identification and Prevention of Riots by Analysis of Social Media Posts in Real-Time,” published in January of 2018
- “Does Emotional Matching Between Video Ads and Content Lead to Better Engagement: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment” published in June 2022[13]
Sharma has also worked with professors and students at MIT Media Lab on building innovative technology solutions across different categories and focused tracks.[14][15]
Inventions
As an inventor, Sharma has contributed many innovations in technology. Including but not limited to:
- Switching device for power control of electric appliances operable by both touch and wireless Bluetooth technology
- Micro-Controller based wireless switching device for power control of electric appliance using Bluetooth technology
- Spock Glove, a NASA Space Apps Winner, the smart space glove which has a gesture control unit that senses EMG motor neuron activity from hand gestures performed by a human, and translates that into intended actions like maneuvering a rover, controlling a camera, activating sensors etc.
- Zomobo, a real-time, multimedia and social encyclopedia with millions of articles providing dynamic, fresh information
- StatMyWeb, a platform that lets you find any information that is publicly available about a website
- MIT Media Lab, various projects on innovating solutions along different categories and focussed tracks
- ZCHO Home Automation Technology
Awards and Recognition
- 35 Under 35 list of Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur Magazine.
- Rajeev Circle Fellowship by Motwani Jadeja Foundation
- NASA SpaceApps winner
- Adgully, Leader 2.0 Award
- 2x Member of FICCI Innovation delegation to Silicon Valley
- BW Businessworld TechTor 2021
- E4M 40 Under 40 List
- ASSOCHAM, 8th MSME Excellence Awards
- SCREENXX, Winner
- AICRA, India First Tech Startup Award
References
- ↑ Staff, Entrepreneur (5 February 2021). "The Tech Innovator". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ Sinha, Ashish. "'We Enable Revenue Stream & Create User Experience': Amitt Sharma, Founder & CEO, VDO.AI". BW Businessworld. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "THERE IS A STRONG IMPERATIVE FOR INNOVATION IN DIGITAL: AMITT SHARMA, VDO. AI". Impact is weekly print magazine publishing information on Advertising and Ad Marketing news specifically targeted towards Agency & Business Managers. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "Amitt Sharma -The AdTech Visionary". www.fortuneindia.com. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "An approach towards feature specific opinion mining and sentimental analysis across e-commerce websites". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "Amitt Sharma". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ Krishna, Sri (9 May 2022). "How Indian startups embed Ethical AI in their processes". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "Role of technology in the video advertising ecosystem - ET BrandEquity". ETBrandEquity.com. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "How adtech is setting a benchmark for future generation". YourStory.com. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ Ravi, Kalpana (19 May 2022). "AI combined with IoT has provided remarkable real-time information: Amitt Sharma, Founder and CEO, VDO.AI". MediaNews4U. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "We need to educate the market about programmatic advertising: Amitt Sharma, VDO. AI - Exchange4media". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ Kan, Lauren (16 September 2020). "Meet Our Maple Member: Amitt Sharma, VDO.AI (Machine Learning/AI, Digital Advertising) | Launch". launchacademy. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "Does Emotional Matching Between Video Ads and Content Lead to Better Engagement: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment∗". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "LIVE: National Startup Day 2022: How entrepreneurs are applauding PM Narendra Modi's decision - Quotes | Who said what". Zee Business. 16 January 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "An approach towards identification and prevention of riots by analysis of social media posts in real-time". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 9 September 2022.