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Rana Gujral
CEO of Behavioral Signals
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Rana Gujral is the CEO at Behavioral Signals, leading the company's innovative work in Voice First for Cognitive AI. With a background in engineering management and product development, Rana has held leadership roles at Logitech as Head of Smart Home / VP and has contributed to publications like TechCrunch and Forbes.
Highlights of Rana's career include serving on the International Advisory Board of TNW and being a Board Member at Cartica Acquisition Corp, where he chaired the Compensation and Corporate Governance Committee.
Work Experience
Board Member, International Advisory Board - TNW (Financial Times)
2023 - Current
TNW (The Next Web) is a Financial Times company and a leading European Tech Festival focused on new technology and start-up companies. The Advisory board influences the conference agenda by curating a program that addresses the most pressing issues and exciting developments in technology.
Board of Advisors
2024
Focused on shaping a world where everyone has the opportunity to harness the transformative power of AI for the betterment of society. #AIforgood #GlobalAICouncil"
Board Member
2023
Cartica Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: CITE) is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that intends to capitalize on the transformative growth opportunities occurring in the technology sector and identify and execute superior, value-creating transactions by leveraging the significant investment, transaction, and operating experience of our highly successful and respected executives and board members.
Chairman of the Compensation and Corporate Governance Committee
2023
Chief Executive Officer & President
2019
Venture-backed (incl InQTel/CIA) Cognitive AI startup developing core technologies for AGI via acoustic-based deep learning. o Hacker Noon Innovative Company of the Year: AI o Gartner Cool Vendor o Gartner Maverick Research FinTech Use-Case Leader o Six-time Gold winner at INTERSPEECH for human interactions & computational paralinguistics o Gold at the ACM Audio-Visual Emotion Challenge
Executive Board Member
2018
Behavioral Signals develops technology to analyze human behavior from voice data.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Barclays, Papapolitis & Papapolitis, Polsinelli, Candesic, Brookstreet Equity Partners, Alter Domus, Rogue Venture Partners, Lowenstein Sandler, Kairos Ventures and In-Q-Tel.
Investor
2013
I focus on pre-A investments with the desired focus on AI, Fintech, AND syndicate deals at scale-stage and growth-stage (sector agnostic). 2022/2023 Investments: Scale AI, Groww, Wave, Boom. 2020/2021 Investments: ArsenalBio, Bedrock, USA Rare Earth, RobinHood, Rubrik, Ripple, Hackient, Dataminr, Stripe, SurfUp, Cerebras. If you’d like to pitch me, please email a brief of your company, with current and projected traction metrics outlined to KristinVarghas@gmail.com. I’m unable to respond to DMs on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Contributor
2016
Development of thought leadership articles on tech trends and their impact on the business/start-up world.
Contributor
2016
Development of thought leadership articles on tech trends and their impact on the business/start-up world.
Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.
Raised $200,000,000.00 from Binance.
Board Advisor
2018 - 2021
Token is building a modern banking platform that allows banks to capitalize on the worldwide move to open banking. The Token platform supports a new flexible paradigm for authorizations (smart tokens), worldwide instant payments, secure, nearly frictionless authorization, user-controlled information sharing, and more. Token is based out of San Francisco and London. Token has been recognized with lots of first place awards in fintech competitions and have signed several banks. Token is funded by top-tier VCs in US, Europe, and OP Bank (the largest bank in Finland).
Mentor
2016 - 2019
Hack Temple is a San Francisco-based startup embassy for entrepreneurial minds. Hack Temple picks best international startups and helps them find product-market fit, acquire first customers and partners, roll out local infrastructure, and get on the radar for top investors and accelerators.
Head of Smart Home / VP
2017 - 2019
Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI) — Global Leader in Personal Peripherals and Consumer Devices. Smart Home and Harmony business unit. Strategic Leadership: Orchestrated the strategy, development, and portfolio management for flagship products, including Harmony and voice-controlled smart home peripherals. Product Innovation and Launch: Pioneered the launch of groundbreaking voice-based entertainment control products, forging strategic partnerships with leading tech giants, including Amazon, Google, and Apple. Team Leadership and Transformation: Led and inspired a diverse global team of over 250 professionals across four sites, cultivating a culture of innovation and driving transformative change within the organization.