Shashi Shankar

Shashi Shankar is the co-founder and CEO of Novellia, an AI-enabled health data platform based in New York that unifies fragmented patient medical records into longitudinal health stories. He previously spent nearly a decade at Genentech and Roche before founding Novellia in January 2023. Under his leadership, Novellia has raised approximately $28 million in total funding, including an $18 million Series A led by Spark Capital, and works with biopharma companies including Daiichi Sankyo, Genentech, and AstraZeneca. Shankar was named to Worth Magazine's 2025 AI & Health Access Pioneer list for his work using AI to expand access to healthcare.