VeerChopra

Veer Chopra

Studying Financial Engineering and CS at Columbia. I run ALMAWORKS, Columbia's startup accelerator. Right now I'm also backtesting systematic signals at Arch Capital and building overdose risk models at Columbia's AI for Social Good lab. Before that I taught myself Swift and built Hearify, so kids could do speech therapy at home instead of in a car for six hours. Otherwise highkey just vibing.

Financial Engineering Computer Science minor Columbia University · Class of 2029 New York, NY

Work

Building

Now

Columbia AI for Social Good and Society

Research Intern

Building data pipelines and a risk classifier for an overdose prevention tool under Prof. Nabila El-Bassel. Piloting at Mount Sinai.

2023 — 2026

Hearify

Founder

Taught myself Swift and built a telehealth app so kids could do speech therapy at home. Used at Rady Children's Hospital, and grew to thousands of users.

Summer 2025

Advanced Bionics

AI Intern

Built LLM automation tools that replaced work people were doing by hand every week.

Summer 2024

UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Research Intern

Built a research data portal with UCSD's CTO for working with large scientific datasets in the browser.

Markets

Now

Arch Capital Management

Quantitative Researcher

Backtesting systematic trading signals and working out how much of a strategy's return is real edge and how much is just market exposure.

Summer 2026

Enable Ventures

VC Fellow

Diligence on inbound deals at a fund investing in the disability economy, and mapping out what the accessibility tech market actually looks like.

Now

Columbia Impact Investing Network

ESG Research Lead (E-Board)

Scoring oil and gas majors against WBA and IEA frameworks, and building a model that weights ESG issues by how material they are to each sector.

Leading

Now

ALMAWORKS

Co-Director

Running Columbia's startup accelerator end to end, from picking the cohort through Demo Day. I went through it as a founder first.

Building something at Columbia? almaworkscu@gmail.com

Now

Columbia Global Research & Consulting

Global Director of Client Growth

Growing our client base across mission-driven organizations from the US to Southeast Asia and Africa.

Organization looking for research support? veerchopra@grcglobalgroup.com

Now

Multivariable Calculus

Teaching Assistant

Running office hours and helping people through the parts of the course that everyone gets stuck on.

Away from the desk

LearningAC/DC on guitar. Slowly.
RewatchingThe Marvel movies, in no particular order.
AlsoCooking fried eggs, and getting fried.
Say hiWant to know more about any of it? Email me — I write back.
On repeat ThunderstruckAC/DC Comfortably NumbPink Floyd Back in BlackAC/DC Wish You Were HerePink Floyd Open in Spotify →