About
Built by people who've shipped inside regulated industries before.
1602 Ventures is a small, security-first consultancy. We build custom AI and software inside a company's own infrastructure, so nothing sent off to a third party and nothing bolted on from the outside.
Founding team
We've built this before.
Engineers, attorneys, and operators who understand both the technical complexity and the regulatory stakes of AI in regulated industries.
Aansh Shah
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
- Built and scaled ML observability platforms at Amazon (Alexa, AGI)
- Named inventor on a patent for improving speech models without collecting user recordings
- Brown University, Applied Math & CS
Brett Taxin
Founder, Managing Partner of Revenue & Strategy
- Two decades scaling regulated financial platforms across fintech and community banking
- Worked across policy and financial services, including the U.S. Treasury and the White House
- University of Pennsylvania (BA); University of Chicago (JD/MBA)