Kv Rao
Founder of Chiku Inc
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2023 - Current
Founder
2012
Aviso is the AI-guided Revenue Operating System that helps sales and go-to-market teams accelerate growth, win more deals, and reduce risk. Aviso AI delivers integrated revenue intelligence, drives team-wide actions and course corrections, and augments sales teams while reducing the burden of CRM. With demonstrated results across industry leaders such as Honeywell, Seagate, Elastic, Armis, RingCentral, and Marlin Equity Partners, Aviso works at the frontier of AI across deep learning, speech recognition, decision science, and computer vision.
AI-Driven Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
Raised $60,000,000.00 from Storm Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, NextWorld Capital, Shasta Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, NextWorld Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and First Round Capital.
Advisor
2016
Advisor to various startups
Board Member, SF Bay Area
2010
Pratham is the largest educational non-profit in India. It does not focus on inputs (such as libraries, giving out books, serving meals, number of classrooms) as many other non-profits do. Instead, Pratham focuses on outputs, which is, “Is the child actually in school and learning at the right level.”
Founder
2006
Zuora provides cloud-based software on a subscription basis that helps companies launch, manage, and transform into a subscription business.
Raised $647,500,000.00 from GIC.
Consultant
2004 - 2006
Consulting on product planning, positioning, and business development with several startups, including Blue Vector Systems, SalesCafe, rHub Software, nSite Software, Goodwell Technologies, Cenwave Communications and Elo, Inc.
Director of Technology
1999 - 2004
Worked on various corporate development activities with primary focus on business development, strategic alliances, key accounts, and mergers and acquisitions. Developed and managed intellectual property strategy and technology licensing activities. Responsibilities included technical marketing, and creating a platform marketing team.
Webex is a cisco company that provides on-demand applications for online conferencing, telework, and application remote control.
Raised $47,000,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, Global Crossing, International Capital Partners, Walden International, Yahoo, Reuters, China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB), TIBCO and Oracle.