Anukool Lakhina
Founder of BurnBot
San Jose, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, CEO
2022 - Current
BurnBot builds and operates systems that prevent destructive wildfires by scaling vegetation fuels treatment.
BurnBot is a collaborator, bringing the best in forestry and fire technology.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from American Family Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, Overture VC, Convective Capital, Toyota Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Blue Forest Asset Management, ReGen Ventures and Skip Capital.
Partner
2022
Convective Capital is an early stage investor in entrepreneurs building solutions to our growing wildfire crisis
Co-Founder
2020
Wonder Labs is a social enterprise with the mission to catalyze social and ecological innovations with communities on the frontlines of climate impacts by co-developing technologies, facilitating convergence research and applying seed capital.
Founder & President
2017 - 2020
"In a world facing exponential growth in the volume of data coming from increasingly connected sensors, Guavus’s acquisition opens broad opportunities for Thales in areas including predictive maintenance, cyber security, monitoring of critical infrastructures, network and telecommunication systems optimization."
Founder, CEO
2005 - 2017
Guavus provides solutions for timely, big data, AI decisions & actions. Guavus's platform consists of an integrated big data streaming analytics technology stack – coupled with a business logic layer – to codify industry-specific analytics applications. Tier-1 Communications Service Providers across the world count Guavus among their largest analytics deployments and are using the platform to control costs and maximize profits. Guavus is a venture-backed company based in Silicon Valley, California with R&D centers in Montreal, Canada and Gurgaon, India and an Analytics Center in Ahmedabad, India.
Guavus is a big data analytics company developing apps that allow companies to embed data driven-decisions into agile businesses processes.
Raised $132,489,993.00 from Liberty Global.
PhD Research Internship
2004 - 2004
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
PhD Research Internship
2003 - 2003
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Principal Technical Officer and Member of BoD
1998 - 2001