Ramesh Haridas
Founder of Memyard
Auckland, Auckland
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2023 - Current
Advisor
2022
Deeptech Labs is a Cambridge based VC fund and accelerator.
Mentor
2021
Mentoring entrepreneurs.
Startup investor
2008
Investing in startups in a wide range of sectors. 2021: - Unplugged (London): Tiny cabins for digital detox - Field Doctor (Bath): Food as medicine - SaveAll (London): Remember what you learn - Patch (UK): Co-working clubs - Aeropowder (London): Sustainable packaging - Mellizyme (London): Enzymes that eat plastic - Truebase (Seattle): Prospect faster 2020: - Asylon (Pittsburgh): Aerial security - Airly (Krakow): Air quality sensors - Dormapp.co (London): P2P learning - Kamua (London): AI powered video editing - Ampcontrol.io (NYC): EV charging software - Beam.org (London): Crowdfunding platform for the homeless - Ryders (London): Marketplace for delivery riders - DeepStash (Bucharest): Discover ideas - Dvinci (Boston): Connecting homeowners to clean energy businesses - Kelp (LA): Plant foods - Pantastic (SF): Help indie brands scale 2015-2019: - Boundless (Dublin): Employ anyone, anywhere - SanoGenetics (Cambridge): genome sequencing service - CryptoQuantique (London): IoT security - Radish (Seoul): Serialized fiction - Downstream (Seattle): Maximize Amazon ads - Thriva (London): Home blood testing - Sweatcoin (London): Walk more - Carv (London): AI digital ski coach - Placer (SF): Location-based insights - Studio (NYC): Connected fitness - Textline (SF): Text messaging for support - Superhuman (SF): Email for power users - Headliner (NYC) : Turn podcasts to videos - New Wave Foods (SF): Plant based sea food - Clara Foods (SF): Sustainable egg whites - CareGuide (Toronto): Matches families with care providers Others include Refinery29, 8tracks, Ripple, Food52, ChaiPoint, TasteDive, & Zeel. Exits: Esaya - first investor (Linkedin), nRelate - first investor (IAC), Mashery (Intel), Rapportive (Linkedin), Totems (Stripe), Quorus ( Amzn), Optimal (Brand Networks), SetJam (Motorola), iMedix (AVG), memo.ai (Coinbase) LP in 500 Startups and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures.
Co-Founder
2023
Add AI vision capabilities to your app using our API or SDK.
Co-Founder
2021 - 2022
Augmented reality inspired exercises to help injured athletes recover faster, using just a mobile phone.
Founder
2019 - 2020
A platform to analyze sports videos, starting with tennis. Our first product automatically generates highlights of tennis matches.
Founder and CEO
2010 - 2016
Parakweet built an NLP platform on top of which it built several products. Two of our best products were -- 1) an AI powered email assistant called InboxVudu that summarized emails and extracted the "ask", and 2) a tool for book recommendations called BookVibe. Parakweet was acquired by Google.
Founder and CEO
2005 - 2007
Advertising company. Sold to Datran Media.
Founder and CEO
1998 - 2000
A cloud based digital wallet. Sold to InfoSpace.
Education
BS
1991 - 1996