# Manmit Shrimali

> Manmit Shrimali is the co-founder and CEO of Turing Labs, an AI software company focused on consumer-product R&D. Previously a co-founder of Dextro Analytics, he built Turing with Ajith Govind in 2019 after observing how fragmented data and manual processes slowed product development. Turing joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 batch and announced a $16.5 million Series A led by Insight Partners in January 2022. His public work increasingly addresses institutional knowledge, scientific judgment and the organizational changes needed to put AI into daily use.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Turing Labs
- **Organizations:** Turing Labs, Dextro Analytics
- **Education:** Postgraduate degree in analytics (described in Dextro’s founder biography)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Turing Labs and Dextro Analytics., Led Turing through Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 program and a $16.5 million Series A., UC Davis’s December 2025 speaker biography credits him with five patents.

## Career timeline

- **2015-2019** — Served as CEO of Dextro Analytics, according to the company leadership profile on Welcome to the Jungle.
- **2016** — Announced as a speaker on data, analytics and decision-making at the Big Data Innovation Summit in San Francisco.
- **2019** — Dextro joined Burlington’s TechPlace LaunchPad program while preparing a consumer-goods software product called Delver.
- **2019** — Co-founded Turing Labs with Ajith Govind in April; the platform launched at the end of the year.
- **2020** — Turing participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 batch; Moment Ventures announced its seed investment in July.
- **2022** — Turing announced a $16.5 million Series A led by Insight Partners on January 19.
- **2025** — Listed as speaker and demonstrator for the December 9 UC Davis AIFS event on AI for food formulation.
- **2026** — Continued publishing on R&D adoption and execution; Turing announced its FoodTech AI Innovation Award on August 20.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Turing Labs and Dextro Analytics.
- Led Turing through Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 program and a $16.5 million Series A.
- UC Davis’s December 2025 speaker biography credits him with five patents.
- Turing Labs received the 2026 AgTech Breakthrough FoodTech AI Innovation Award.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Turing listed a September 23 reformulation webinar featuring Shrimali and Miriam Ueberall; the event page does not establish that the session took place.
- **2026-08** — Turing announced its 2026 FoodTech AI Innovation Award on August 20.
- **2026-06** — Published “Food Giants Have The Science, But They’re Missing Everything Else” on June 30.
- **2026-06** — Turing released its survey of 290 senior U.S. and European CPG leaders on June 22.
- **2026-04** — Published an article about the gap between AI adoption and R&D outcomes on April 6.

## Links

- Website: https://www.turingsaas.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manmitshrimali

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Last updated: 2026-10-26