Meet the Team.

Co-founder

Sumit Jagdale

CEO, CTO

Production AI engineering, systems operations

Builds and operates AI-enabled systems end to end: backend services, data pipelines, retrieval and embedding infrastructure, agent and tool integrations, structured LLM outputs, cloud deployments, observability, monitoring, and automated recovery.

A decade in marketing, data analytics, and creative strategy

Commercial judgment for how merchants position products, acquire customers, protect brand trust, and convert demand. Sartorial is technical systems built with an operator’s understanding of how commerce decisions are made, measured, and improved.

Origin story · 2020

Sumit used Python in 2020 to build bots that beat scalpers at their own game and buy an Xbox and PlayStation at retail price. That was the beginning of his journey into machine learning, natural language processing, and eventually a full-stack AI-engineering skillset.

He relishes the irony that while in 2020 ecommerce websites had anti-bot protections, in 2026 he’s building a company for an ecosystem that’s thrown open the doors for those same bots.

Co-founder

Stella Xiao

CMO, COO

Growth marketer and Shopify operator

Scales go-to-market engines from the ground up. As the first U.S. marketing hire at Orbbec, she built the entire demand-generation infrastructure from scratch while managing their Shopify storefront end-to-end: storefront build, frontend optimization, supply-chain coordination, conversion funnel, and data tracking. By pairing technical automation and CRM attribution with hands-on front-end work and supply-chain coordination, she drove a 32% QoQ lift in marketing-sourced pipeline and cut CPL by 73.7%.

0→1 GTM across hardware tech and B2B SaaS

Diagnoses and solves fundamental growth bottlenecks across diverse industries. At Sartorial, she bridges deep merchant empathy with operational realism—bringing a firsthand understanding of how brands build customer trust, and exactly where today’s AI agents fall short when navigating a commerce catalog.

Advisory Board

Advisor · Capital & corporate structure

Vinayak Burman

Managing Partner, Vertices Partners · Creator, The Lifeboat Series

Capital, M&A, and structuring counsel

Two decades across venture capital, private equity, buyouts, joint ventures, public-private partnerships, and strategic corporate structuring.
Advises on SAFE-to-priced conversion, IP perimeter, and merchant-contract terms.
Frames downstream M&A optionality as the design-partner cohort scales into a Plus-tier enterprise motion.

Active angel and startup mentor

Backs and coaches early-stage founders across India and the U.S.
Operator-grade judgment on round timing, investor mix, and the structural decisions that keep a venture-backed company acquirable later.

Advisor · AI product, R&D, and scale

Aneesh Sathe

VP Data Science, Drug Discovery · Co-founder, Qritive

Founder, AI cancer diagnostics

Co-founded Qritive in 2017 with a mission to revolutionize cancer diagnosis using AI.
Raised $8.5M in venture funding and shipped four production AI products at regulatory-grade accuracy.
Built operating teams across the U.S., Singapore, and India; took the company from research artifact to multi-market commercial product.

Scientific rigor at startup velocity

Now VP Data Science in AI-driven drug discovery, leading research and product development at scale.
Advises on evaluation infrastructure, data strategy, and the discipline of keeping a small team’s output measurably better than a much larger competitor’s.

Advisor · Security & cloud infrastructure

Vineet Zunjarwad

Security Engineer, Rakuten Rewards

Cloud security at consumer-commerce scale

Security engineer inside Rakuten Rewards, where merchant data, payment flows, and partner integrations move at high volume.
Hardens Sartorial’s publishing pipeline, agent-facing endpoints, and credential boundaries before any merchant data leaves the storefront.

Security automation as a force multiplier

Specializes in automated detection, response, and policy enforcement so small engineering teams ship safely.
Bakes audit posture and compliance readiness into the product from day one.
Critical once enterprise CPG and Plus-tier merchants begin diligence.