Venkat Srinivasan

Dr. Venkat Srinivasan is the Managing Director of Innospark Ventures which is an evergreen venture fund investing in early-stage AI-led startups. Being a serial entrepreneur and investor, Venkat brings deep expertise in AI and computational algorithms to the firm, especially natural language understanding, combined with deep functional knowledge in multiple domains including operations research, finance and accounting. He has founded several successful AI-led startups, including eCredit, Corporate Fundamentals, and Rage Frameworks. More recently he has founded EnglishHelper (using AI to solve illiteracy at scale), GyanAI (the first explainable natural language understanding engine), Creda Health (Digital Health Assistant for a continuum of care) and PrismX (automated software development platform).

Venkat was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Indus Entrepreneurs [TiE] in 2017 (http://bit.ly/2j5ElGG). Dr. Srinivasan holds 9 patents, has published over 30 research papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, has co-edited two books and is the author of a book titled, The Intelligent Enterprise in the Era of Big Data (Wiley, 2017). Venkat has strongly advocated for and believes that successful AI-led transformation will be characterized by explainability, traceability, context awareness and the ability to learn from sparse data environments.

Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Venkat served as an Associate Professor at the D'More-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.