Rehaan Bicha

Rehaan Bicha is the CEO and founder of Metalinked, an AI company focused on helping manufacturers make better decisions across business development, sourcing, quoting, supplier management, and other supply-chain workflows.

His background is in AI research at UC Berkeley, where he worked on applying machine learning to real-world operational problems. He is also a UC Berkeley graduate. His work with Metalinked grew out of a broader interest in how companies make high-value decisions using knowledge that often exists informally inside experienced teams but is rarely captured in software.

At Metalinked, Rehaan is focused on building AI systems that can learn a manufacturer’s “tribal knowledge,” including what makes a customer attractive, which opportunities are worth pursuing, what operational patterns signal risk, and how external market signals can be translated into actionable recommendations. The company’s technology is designed to move beyond static dashboards by proactively identifying relevant commercial and supply-chain opportunities.

Rehaan has worked directly with manufacturers across a range of industries and company sizes, giving him exposure to practical challenges around quoting, customer acquisition, supplier decisions, production constraints, and institutional knowledge transfer.

His broader interests include applied AI, manufacturing intelligence, industrial automation, decision systems, and the commercialization of research. He is particularly interested in how AI can augment experienced engineers and operators by preserving hard-won knowledge, surfacing patterns humans may miss, and helping technical teams make faster, more informed decisions without removing human judgment from the process.