Founder of a listed tool

Shivani Poddar

Founder and CEO, named behind the Wajo (Fo) listing on Anchor Terminal.

Founder and CEO

Shivani Poddar founded Wajo, which builds AI agents for everyday real-world tasks, and leads its team. She researched natural language generation at Carnegie Mellon, built one of the first social conversation agents for the Alexa Prize, led multimodal AI work at Meta, and launched frontier models at Google DeepMind and products at Google Labs.

What Shivani builds

  • Wajo (Fo) E · Personal assistants

    Fo is Wajo's personal action agent. It calls, emails and coordinates with people to finish everyday tasks, pays with single-use cards and brings in human executive assistants when a task needs them. An MCP server lets AI clients reach it.

    Founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Shivani Poddar?

Shivani Poddar founded Wajo, which builds AI agents for everyday real-world tasks, and leads its team. She researched natural language generation at Carnegie Mellon, built one of the first social conversation agents for the Alexa Prize, led multimodal AI work at Meta, and launched frontier models at Google DeepMind and products at Google Labs.

What does Wajo, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Wajo (Fo) from Wajo, Inc.. Fo is Wajo's personal action agent. It calls, emails and coordinates with people to finish everyday tasks, pays with single-use cards and brings in human executive assistants when a task needs them. An MCP server lets AI clients reach it.

How are Shivani's tools graded?

Wajo (Fo) is graded E, 44.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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