Ramsey Shaffer

Serial founder and operator focused on AI products for information discovery. Ramsey launched Uptrends.ai (an AI news & trend monitoring product for investors) in 2023 and pivoted/expanded to institutional use-cases with Babbl Labs in 2024–2025, where he’s building a video-intelligence stack for hedge funds and enterprise customers. His recent fundraising, product relaunches, and participation/wins at industry showcases reflect hands-on founder experience across product, GTM, and early sales. uptrends+2

Technical/data-science grounding with a University of Minnesota MS in Industrial & Systems Engineering (data science emphasis), applied to real-world alternative data and NLP problems: extracting signals from unstructured sources (news, long-form video) to create trading and enterprise signals. umn+1

Active community mentor and educator for early-stage founders. In addition to running startups, he serves as a Batch Director with ILT Academy, speaks at regional data/startup events (Data Tech), and writes public-facing founder content — indicating a blend of operator+mentor roles in the Midwest startup ecosystem. iltacademy+2

Public-facing storyteller and content creator: maintains a personal newsletter/blog with frequent posts (product updates, founder lessons, essays), does founder interviews, and engages on social platforms to document product progress and fundraising updates. ramseyshaffer+1