Aakrit completed his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois. As Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, Aakrit pioneered the wave of conversational AI starting back in 2013. Today, Haptik is one of the world's largest companies in the space with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Singapore, and more than 100 large enterprise clients including KFC, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Oyo Rooms, Kotak Life, Dream11. In April 2019, Reliance Industries acquired a majority shareholding in the company in a $100 million transaction making Haptik one of the highest valued AI companies globally.

Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in the areas of consumer/consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Notable investments include Unacademy (valued at >$200 million), Third Wave Coffee, Dataweave, Haikujam (Lightbox backed), Flatchat (sold to Commonfloor in 2014), Tookitaki, Dil Mil, Ayopop, iON Energy, Talent Litmus, among others.

Aakrit is also the Chair for the Mumbai chapter for H2, one of the world's leading leadership organizations for the technology industry.