Sri Rao
Investor
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2024 - Current
Launching a multidisciplinary agentic-AI and human-machine interactions lab studying commercial applications, policies, and impact of machine intelligence on the workforce.
Investor, Board Member
2024
TieSet builds orchestration and management solutions that make it possible for AI applications to run everywhere, across diverse environments and devices in a privacy-centric and data efficient way.
TieSet offers an advanced AI tool STADLE, optimizing both centralized and decentralized data training for secure and efficient updates.
Raised $668,600.00 from Grace Services LLC, Ultra Holdings and PCI Holdings.
Investor, Board Advisor
2023
Digitizing institutional investments in emerging managers.
Zive AI revolutionizes fund management for VC managers with its AI-powered platform.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from CerraCap Ventures and 7BC Venture Capital.
Investor
2023
Distributed SaaS services that make it simple to deploy complex storage configurations in single, multi, and hybrid cloud environments built by industry-leading experts in AI/ML and storage optimization.
Attimis is disrupting cloud storage with groundbreaking solutions and business ideas.
Investor
2023
SirenOpt makes an AI based real-time sensing and software platform that improves manufacturing yield and performance of thin film products.
SirenOpt provides manufacturing intelligence solutions for nanoscale materials used in semiconductors, electronics, batteries, and aerospace
Raised $9,600,000.00 from Climate Club, Voyager Ventures, Access Industries, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Union Labs Ventures, Impact Science Ventures, Climate Capital, Wireframe Ventures, Courtyard Ventures and Visionaries Tomorrow.
Investor
2023
Dream3D couples intuitive interfaces with machine intelligence to make it easy for anyone to create beautiful computer graphics.
Investor
2022
NuMind allows software engineers, data scientists and non-experts alike to easily create state-of-the-art machine learning models powered by LLMs to process text automatically.
NuMind is a SAAS company that offers data scientists, analysts and software engineers AI tools to create custom NLP models.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Flybridge, Y Combinator, Sharpstone Capital, Velocity Incubator, Carya Venture Partners, Pioneer Fund and big_bets.
Investor
2022
Cache is a fintech startup based in San Francisco, and backed by First Round, Quiet, and some of the savviest angel investors in tech and finance. We are a brokerage designed specifically for large stock positions. If a significant portion of your portfolio is in individual stocks, we have products to reduce your risk, generate passive income and get efficient liquidity.
Cache is a fintech startup that offers brokerage service for individuals holding large stock positions.
Raised $14,250,000.00 from Quiet Capital, Adam Nash, James Herbert, First Round Capital, Ajeet Singh, Ralph Drybrough, Martin Mao and Gokul Rajaram.
Investor
2022
Polymath makes it radically simple to add safety-critical navigation to industrial vehicles.
Polymath Robotics is a plug-and-play software designed to automate industrial vehicles that are operating in closed environments.
Investor
2022
The AI revolution won't happen until the cost of inference drops by 10X. While training is limited by compute, inference is limited by bandwidth. Volantis is building a new chip with 10X more bandwidth- resulting in >10X cheaper inference.
Volantis is a semiconductor manufacturing company that designs and manufactures AI chips optimized for high-performance computing needs.