Vik was the CEO and Co-Founder of Infer, a predictive platform that helped businesses win more customers and was acquired by Ignite. Infer served hundreds of enterprise clients—including Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco, and Okta—raised $35M from Andreessen Horowitz and others, and led its category in G2 reviews.

Before Infer, Vik was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. He helped build Yahoo! BOSS (powering services like DuckDuckGo), and previously worked on Google Custom Search and Microsoft’s Windows XP SP2 Wireless. He also published with Turing Award winner Dr. Jim Gray at Microsoft Research and holds 13 patents across search, infrastructure, and data modeling.

Vik earned his Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley, where he now co-teaches CS and entrepreneurship courses. He was named an MIT Tech Review “Top 35 Innovator Under 35” and has been featured in outlets like Wired, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Earlier, he was a top-ranked high school policy debater and California state champion.