Shubham Agrawal is an AI infrastructure founder and former quantitative researcher building at the intersection of finance-grade optimization and scalable AI systems. A founding team member and first hire at a New York–based hedge fund, he helped scale the firm from three people to ~$400M in AUM, developing high-performance quantitative strategies across global markets. He now brings that systems and optimization expertise to Zeno, an AI inference and infrastructure startup focused on improving model efficiency and delivering plug-and-play AI solutions for enterprises, alongside Air Labs, his research initiative. Currently raising a seed round, Shubham is focused on building foundational AI infra for the next generation of applications while connecting the India–U.S. startup ecosystem