Dayakar Puskoor

Entrepreneur | Investor | Mentor

📍 Colleyville, Texas, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2020
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Board Member
May 2020
CoreStack, an AI-powered multi-cloud governance solution, empowers enterprises to unleash the power of cloud on their terms by helping them rapidly achieve continuous and autonomous cloud governance at scale. CoreStack enables enterprises to realize outcomes across FinOps, SecOps and CloudOps such as 40% decrease in cloud costs and 50% increase in operational efficiencies by governing operations, security, cost, access, and resources. CoreStack also assures 100% compliance with standards such as ISO, FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, AWS CIS & Well Architected Framework. CoreStack helps enterprises overcome the cloud challenges such as unpredictable and unabated cloud costs, ever growing security risks, stringent regulatory compliance needs and operational complexities by offering deeper cloud visibility, preventative governance guardrails, and automatic remediation. With a unique Cloud-as-Code approach that uses deep AI/ML, declarative definitions, connector-less model, and a patented cloud service-chaining technology, CoreStack continually innovates to harness the real power of cloud. CoreStack works with many global customers across industries including Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Education, Telecommunications, Technology and Government. The company is backed by the worlds leading venture capital investors and a seasoned advisory team. CoreStack is a recipient of the 2021 Gold Stevie American Business Awards in the Cloud Infrastructure category, 2021 Stratus Cloud Disruptor and 2021 Gold Globee Winner of the Most Innovative Company of the Year in ITCloud/SaaS. CoreStack won the 2021 Best New Products American Business Award in Cloud Governance as well as Golden Bridge Awards for Cloud Computing/SaaS Innovation and Cloud Security Innovation. CoreStack is a Google Cloud Build Partner, Microsoft Azure Gold & Co-Sell Partner, and Amazon AWS Advanced Technology Competency Partner. Learn more at www.corestack.io
Board Member
Jul 2019
Viviota software seamlessly manages engineering data and automates analysis—reducing costs and improving time-to-market for new products. Our powerful software dramatically simplifies data management complexity and fully integrates into existing design, prototyping, and test environments—releasing the full potential of sensor data—and accelerating time-to-insight and innovation.
Board Member
Jan 2019
We're AmplifAI, and we've created the AI-Driven People Enablement Platform for employee-centric workforces. AmplifAI transforms employee data into actions modeled after an enterprise’s best-performing people - helping hybrid teams maximize business outcomes, boost productivity and improve engagement. As more companies explore the new generation of hybrid work, innovative leaders and organizations are relying on AmplifAI to enable people, improve performance and make work more fun - wherever work is happening!
Board Member
Feb 2018
Kore.ai, a leader in enterprise AI, accelerates business outcomes from AI with agentic AI applications built on the industry-leading Kore.ai Agent Platform. Its growing catalogue includes pre-built solutions for banking, healthcare, and retail; horizontal applications for IT, HR, and recruiting; and marketplace that help enterprises deploy AI agents quickly across additional industries and use cases. Open and agnostic by design, Kore.ai gives organizations flexibility in choosing AI models, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise systems. Trusted by nearly 500 Global 2000 companies, Kore.ai enables secure, scalable AI adoption worldwide. With its roots grounded in the Enterprise, Kore.ai brings years of experience in AI applications for customer service, workplace productivity and process automation. The company has a strong patent portfolio in the AI space and has been recognized as a leader and an innovator by top analysts. Headquartered in Orlando, Kore.ai has a network of offices to support customers in India, the UK, the Middle East, Japan, South Korea, and Europe. Visit Kore.ai to learn more.
Board Member
Oct 2016
DocSynk: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Platform - Built from the Ground Up: Built for Speed Built for verifiable results Built to be the most cost effective Our Machine Learning Platform: Predicts and Manages Chronic Conditions Engages Patients and encourages participation via Emma, our AI-Chatbot Automates key processes in Revenue Cycle Management We are proud to partner with several Blue Chip companies: Lightbeam Health Solutions Vector Oncology West Cancer Center Mitel nThrive Why Us? 5 days to results – once we get your data nearly 20 Million Lives Touched 2.5 Billion + Healthcare data points 5 Patents (and counting) Along the way we won GE’s healthcare innovation award, competing with startups from Stanford, Chicago, MIT, Harvard. Join us in our mission to fundamentally disrupt analytics in healthcare ->
Board Member
2014
HyperVerge is a B2B SaaS company providing AI-based identity verification (KYC) & business verification (KYB) solutions for companies in Fintech, BFSI, Insurance, Lending, Gaming, Logistics, EdTech across 195+ countries. HyperVerge is the No.1 player in the APAC market by volume and product maturity. HyperVerge has on-boarded 700 million identities till date and its AI has been trained on diverse facial variations and ID formats. Leading enterprises use HyperVerge’s digital KYC, Video KYC (V-KYC), and KYB solutions for: -Seamlessly onboarding new customers and business partners -Authenticating existing customers and agents -Identifying and stopping fraudsters The AI models of HyperVerge for real-time image and video analysis leads the market on accuracy (99.55%) and are precisely optimized for deployments in low bandwidth environments.
Board Member
Nov 2013
Altia Systems®, a venture-backed company based in Cupertino, CA that was funded by Intel Capital and other leading investors, is the creator of the PanaCast® camera systems and Intelligent Vision software products. The company completed a successful acquisition with GN Jabra in March 2019. PanaCast solutions deliver real-time 180° Panoramic-4K, Panoramic-5K and 4K 3D video streams from integrated, synchronized and optimized multi-camera arrays. PanaCast systems and Intelligent Vision (artificial intelligence) software products are used by more than 1,600 companies worldwide, including 200+ universities, for video collaboration, education, AR/VR, live broadcasting and machine learning for autonomous systems. PanaCast system devices are designed and assembled in the U.S. and have received prestigious awards such as CES Innovation Awards Honoree designations, Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation, GOOD DESIGN award, Gartner Cool Vendor in Unified Communications, the peer-reviewed, by-invitation Design Showcase at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and more. For more information and the latest updates, visit www.panacast.com and follow @PanaCast1 via Twitter.
Board Observer
Jun 2013
Minetta Brook was formed in response to the explosion of unstructured data in our lives. Our software product, Knewsapp, allows financial professionals to spot evolving news trends before they surface as headlines or breaking news on major networks. Our team comprises scientists and technologists who understand information, finance, and business. We developed the trading systems that became the model for every single modern trading system. Our software underpins NASDAQ's messaging infrastructure. We have built algorithms for trading and extracted news for algorithms. We designed the massively scale-able server clusters and information architecture that run systems on Wall Street. Learn more at www.minettabrook.com. Follow us on Twitter at @knewsapp
Board member
Jun 2010
SinglePoint Inc. is a renewable energy and sustainable lifestyle company focused on providing environmentally friendly energy efficiencies and healthy living solutions. SinglePoint is initially focused on building the largest network of renewable energy solutions and modernizing the traditional solar and energy storage model. The Company is also actively exploring future growth opportunities in air purification, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and a healthier life.
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2020
Board Member
May 2020
CoreStack, an AI-powered multi-cloud governance solution, empowers enterprises to unleash the power of cloud on their terms by helping them rapidly achieve continuous and autonomous cloud governance at scale. CoreStack enables enterprises to realize outcomes across FinOps, SecOps and CloudOps such as 40% decrease in cloud costs and 50% increase in operational efficiencies by governing operations, security, cost, access, and resources. CoreStack also assures 100% compliance with standards such as ISO, FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, AWS CIS & Well Architected Framework. CoreStack helps enterprises overcome the cloud challenges such as unpredictable and unabated cloud costs, ever growing security risks, stringent regulatory compliance needs and operational complexities by offering deeper cloud visibility, preventative governance guardrails, and automatic remediation. With a unique Cloud-as-Code approach that uses deep AI/ML, declarative definitions, connector-less model, and a patented cloud service-chaining technology, CoreStack continually innovates to harness the real power of cloud. CoreStack works with many global customers across industries including Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Education, Telecommunications, Technology and Government. The company is backed by the worlds leading venture capital investors and a seasoned advisory team. CoreStack is a recipient of the 2021 Gold Stevie American Business Awards in the Cloud Infrastructure category, 2021 Stratus Cloud Disruptor and 2021 Gold Globee Winner of the Most Innovative Company of the Year in ITCloud/SaaS. CoreStack won the 2021 Best New Products American Business Award in Cloud Governance as well as Golden Bridge Awards for Cloud Computing/SaaS Innovation and Cloud Security Innovation. CoreStack is a Google Cloud Build Partner, Microsoft Azure Gold & Co-Sell Partner, and Amazon AWS Advanced Technology Competency Partner. Learn more at www.corestack.io
2019
Board Member
Jul 2019
Viviota software seamlessly manages engineering data and automates analysis—reducing costs and improving time-to-market for new products. Our powerful software dramatically simplifies data management complexity and fully integrates into existing design, prototyping, and test environments—releasing the full potential of sensor data—and accelerating time-to-insight and innovation.
Board Member
Jan 2019
We're AmplifAI, and we've created the AI-Driven People Enablement Platform for employee-centric workforces. AmplifAI transforms employee data into actions modeled after an enterprise’s best-performing people - helping hybrid teams maximize business outcomes, boost productivity and improve engagement. As more companies explore the new generation of hybrid work, innovative leaders and organizations are relying on AmplifAI to enable people, improve performance and make work more fun - wherever work is happening!
2018
Board Member
Feb 2018
Kore.ai, a leader in enterprise AI, accelerates business outcomes from AI with agentic AI applications built on the industry-leading Kore.ai Agent Platform. Its growing catalogue includes pre-built solutions for banking, healthcare, and retail; horizontal applications for IT, HR, and recruiting; and marketplace that help enterprises deploy AI agents quickly across additional industries and use cases. Open and agnostic by design, Kore.ai gives organizations flexibility in choosing AI models, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise systems. Trusted by nearly 500 Global 2000 companies, Kore.ai enables secure, scalable AI adoption worldwide. With its roots grounded in the Enterprise, Kore.ai brings years of experience in AI applications for customer service, workplace productivity and process automation. The company has a strong patent portfolio in the AI space and has been recognized as a leader and an innovator by top analysts. Headquartered in Orlando, Kore.ai has a network of offices to support customers in India, the UK, the Middle East, Japan, South Korea, and Europe. Visit Kore.ai to learn more.
2016
Board Member
Oct 2016
DocSynk: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Platform - Built from the Ground Up: Built for Speed Built for verifiable results Built to be the most cost effective Our Machine Learning Platform: Predicts and Manages Chronic Conditions Engages Patients and encourages participation via Emma, our AI-Chatbot Automates key processes in Revenue Cycle Management We are proud to partner with several Blue Chip companies: Lightbeam Health Solutions Vector Oncology West Cancer Center Mitel nThrive Why Us? 5 days to results – once we get your data nearly 20 Million Lives Touched 2.5 Billion + Healthcare data points 5 Patents (and counting) Along the way we won GE’s healthcare innovation award, competing with startups from Stanford, Chicago, MIT, Harvard. Join us in our mission to fundamentally disrupt analytics in healthcare ->
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