Unmukt Raizada.
Unmukt Raizada is the co-founder and CEO of TrustEvals. He spent 16 years leading data and AI initiatives at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Airtel before co-founding Thena (Lightspeed/FRC/Pear-backed) in 2022. He now builds TrustEvals, the system of record for AI in the enterprise.
16 years leading data and AI initiatives at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Airtel, and Thena. Now building TrustEvals.
16 years at the data + AI intersection.
16 years at the intersection of data and AI. 12 of those at enterprise scale (Goldman, JPMorgan, Airtel). 4 of those building generative AI in production (Thena, TrustEvals).
Where the work has taken him.
From the founder.
As organizations scale AI into production, reliability is no longer optional. It is the difference between user delight and costly hallucinations. After 16 years leading data and AI initiatives at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Airtel, and Thena.ai, I've seen a consistent pattern: great models fail because evals weren't built for real-world complexity. My focus is to fix that by providing continuous evaluation infrastructure for RAG and agentic systems, so businesses can measure and improve reliability, accuracy, and safety across their entire AI stack.
Where to find his thinking.
- LinkedIn. 10,000+ followers · daily content on AI adoption, evals, governance · linkedin.com/in/unmukt-raizada
- Recurring themes. eval-driven development, observability vs. assurance, AI waste, the “90% adoption” myth, LLM-as-judge frameworks, the gap between “model tested better” and “model works better for us”
- GrepTalks. conference appearances and synthesis
- Podcast appearances. tracked internally, surfaced on the resources page as they ship
Common questions.
TrustEvals was co-founded in late 2025 by Unmukt Raizada (CEO) and Ankit Saxena. Unmukt is a second-time founder; Ankit has a 20-year working relationship with Unmukt and leads product and technical architecture.
16 years at the data/AI intersection. Chief Data Architect & Data Product at Goldman Sachs (6y 9m, $1T+ transaction systems). VP Applied AI/ML at JPMorgan (1y 4m, AI under audit and regulator standards). AVP Product at Airtel/Wynk (ML-based recommendation and ranking for 120M+ monthly users). Co-founder of Thena (~4y, Lightspeed/FRC/Pear-backed AI agent company).
Thena is the AI agent company Unmukt co-founded in 2022. Backed by Lightspeed, First Round Capital, and Pear VC. Thena built and deployed AI agents at enterprise scale into US banks and fintechs, the engagement pattern that exposed the evaluation gap TrustEvals was built to close.