About

About Portend AI

We Keep an Eye on
What Can Hurt Your Business

Portend AI is building business risk intelligence for organizations that need to understand how risk is changing around them.

We continuously transform external signals into actionable intelligence across cybersecurity, compliance, reputation, third parties, supply chains, and business operations.

Our Purpose

Make sophisticated risk intelligence useful, accessible, and actionable.

Businesses should not need massive teams, disconnected tools, and months of manual research to understand the risks surrounding the organizations they depend on.

Our Mission
Make effective risk management simpler, more accessible, and within reach for organizations of every size.

Portend AI was founded with a simple belief: understanding business risk should not be unnecessarily complicated.

Our mission is to transform risk management into a simpler, more affordable, and more accessible experience. We work to demystify complex risk signals, provide straightforward intelligence, and help organizations navigate their unique challenges with greater confidence.

By turning fragmented external information into useful context, we aim to help organizations become more resilient and make better-informed decisions in a continuously changing world.

What We Believe

Better Risk Management Starts With Better Intelligence

01

Risk Is Continuous

Organizations and their environments change every day. Risk intelligence should change with them.

02

External Signals Matter

Decisions should not depend solely on questionnaires, self-reported information, or periodic reviews.

03

Context Beats Noise

More data is not the goal. Understanding what a signal means, who it affects, and why it matters is.

04

Sophistication Should Be Accessible

Powerful risk capabilities should not require enormous teams or enterprise-scale complexity.

What We’re Building

A New Layer of Business Risk Intelligence

Portend connects thousands of external sources, millions of entities, and billions of signals to help teams understand organizations and emerging risk.

Continuous Intelligence

Move beyond static snapshots with risk intelligence that evolves as organizations and their environments change.

Connected Context

Understand relationships between companies, people, technologies, infrastructure, locations, suppliers, and other entities.

Actionable Risk

Translate fragmented signals into intelligence that helps teams prioritize investigation and make decisions.

Our Team

Built by a Team Focused on Better Risk Intelligence

Shabd Vaid

Shabd Vaid

Founder, CEO

Ankit Sharma

Ankit Sharma

Engineering

Priyam Singh

Priyam Singh

Engineering

Aditya Sharma

Aditya Sharma

Marketing

Hardika Shangari

Hardika Shangari

Customer Success

Advisors

Guided by Experienced Operators and Technology Leaders

Anand Jagannathan

Anand Jagannathan

Raghu Raghavan

Raghu Raghavan

Atri Chatterjee

Atri Chatterjee

Mital Makadia

Mital Makadia

Mayur Nagarsheth

Mayur Nagarsheth

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See What Business Risk Intelligence Can Uncover

Learn how Portend AI helps teams continuously understand risk across the organizations they depend on.

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