Dr. Venkat Srinivasan combines three rarely-found profiles in a single investor—AI scientist with a PhD, serial founder who built and exited multiple AI companies over decades, and former finance professor—giving him unusually deep hands-on experience as both an AI operator and academic researcher. He focuses specifically on explainable, traceable AI systems rather than black-box models, insisting that AI must be central to a business with defensible scientific IP, while maintaining strong roots in both Indian and US ecosystems through his journey from chartered accountant to finance professor to AI entrepreneur. Dr. Venkat Srinivasan combines three rarely-found profiles in a single investor—AI scientist with a PhD, serial founder who built and exited multiple AI companies over decades, and former finance professor—giving him unusually deep hands-on experience as both an AI operator and academic researcher. He focuses specifically on explainable, traceable AI systems rather than black-box models, insisting that AI must be central to a business with defensible scientific IP, while maintaining strong roots in both Indian and US ecosystems through his journey from chartered accountant to finance professor to AI entrepreneur.