New Delhi: Peeyush Ranjan, former Flipkart CTO and a Google veteran, has joined Mukesh Bansal's startup incubator Meraki Labs as a partner.

Based in San Francisco, he will help expand Meraki's presence in Silicon Valley as it sharpens its focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and work closely with entrepreneurs at the incubator to shape their tech and product strategies, Ranjan told ET.

"Meraki's focus is to be a moonshot factory for amazing projects, and in today's day, AI is a key component of that," he said. "A big part of my role will be to guide the AI vision for Meraki... What kind of companies we should start, what are the problems that we will be great at solving?... Not just applying AI for the sake of it." -Pranav Mukul