Supriya Paul — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founder of Josh Talks, which builds AI infrastructure for emerging markets.
Authored the book "All You Need Is Josh: Stories".
Serves as a Young Global Leader (YGL) with the World Economic Forum for 2026.
Leads efforts in creating large-scale conversational speech datasets across 22+ languages.

Biography

Supriya Paul is an Indian entrepreneur and the co-founder of Josh Talks. Currently, Josh Talks focuses on building AI infrastructure for emerging markets. This work addresses the need for high-quality, culturally grounded, multilingual data and evaluation systems for real-world AI deployment across diverse languages, accents, and contexts.

At Josh Talks AI, Paul oversees the creation of large-scale datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation infrastructure.