Krishnan Narayan

Distinguished Engineer | Builder | Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Angel Investor
Jun 2024
Nautical Wings Aerospace is an aviation technology company based in Bengaluru, India. Were on a mission to electrify aircrafts, pioneering a cleaner, more sustainable future for all; its essential. Were expanding our team. If you think what were doing is meaningful, join us and help build a sustainable tomorrow. Write to us at wearenw@nauticalwings.com
Seed Investor
May 2024
CoRover is Elevating Enterprises with Generative AI Powered Human-Centric Conversational AI Platform, Impacting 1 Billion+ Lives. ​​ CoRover’s USPs: 1. Human-Centric Conversational AI Platform: 10X Faster Implementation with Responsible, Grounded, and Secure Generative AI (like a sovereign AI LLM BharatGPT). 2. Enterprise-Grade AI Assistants: Trusted by 1000+ Enterprises, 1 Billion+ Users Across 100+ Languages and 20+ Channels - Including ChatBot, VoiceBot, VideoBot, IVR Bot and WhatsApp Bot. 3. Conversational (Video - Voice) Commerce: Enhancing Customer Experience, Operational Efficiency (70%), and Revenue Growth by 10X. CoRover has received commendations from Microsoft Chairman & CEO, Satya Nadella; Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi; Google, NVIDIA, and many others. Working with many fortune 100 companies! Also, listed in Gartner and Forbes! First and only Conversational and Generative AI company which is CMMI Maturity Level 5! ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 27001:2013 certified as well. We are one of the Top 10 Artificial Intelligence companies and the best Conversational AI company. Got many national & international awards. Traction: 1 Billion+ Users, 25M+ MAU, 800K Concurrent users Clients: Google, IRCTC, Indian Railways, LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India), Max Life Insurance, NPCI, BHIM UPI, RBI (DigiSaathi), Union Bank, RuPay, 70+ Banks, ATC/ITC Ltd, Mahindra Group, Carandbike, IGL, KSRTC, SRS Travels, Gray Matter, BIAL (Bengaluru Airport), Aquetas (US), Gamerji, Aura Health Solution (US), Malahide Shopping(UAE), Digital India, NSDC, Unilever, GRSE (Indian Navy - Defence), Finastra (UK), Innovation Hills (Japan),Comviva, BEL, Chandigarh Smart City, Invest India, Karnataka Government, Startup India AI (The National AI Portal of India - a MEITY, NEGD & NASSCOM Initiative), founder is SEBI, Hero MotoCorp, and more.
Angel Investor
Jan 2024
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
Advisor and Investor
Jun 2020
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
Experience · 6 entries
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Investments (4)
2024
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
Nautical Wings Aerospace is an aviation technology company based in Bengaluru, India. Were on a mission to electrify aircrafts, pioneering a cleaner, more sustainable future for all; its essential. Were expanding our team. If you think what were doing is meaningful, join us and help build a sustainable tomorrow. Write to us at wearenw@nauticalwings.com
Seed Investor
May 2024
CoRover is Elevating Enterprises with Generative AI Powered Human-Centric Conversational AI Platform, Impacting 1 Billion+ Lives. ​​ CoRover’s USPs: 1. Human-Centric Conversational AI Platform: 10X Faster Implementation with Responsible, Grounded, and Secure Generative AI (like a sovereign AI LLM BharatGPT). 2. Enterprise-Grade AI Assistants: Trusted by 1000+ Enterprises, 1 Billion+ Users Across 100+ Languages and 20+ Channels - Including ChatBot, VoiceBot, VideoBot, IVR Bot and WhatsApp Bot. 3. Conversational (Video - Voice) Commerce: Enhancing Customer Experience, Operational Efficiency (70%), and Revenue Growth by 10X. CoRover has received commendations from Microsoft Chairman & CEO, Satya Nadella; Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi; Google, NVIDIA, and many others. Working with many fortune 100 companies! Also, listed in Gartner and Forbes! First and only Conversational and Generative AI company which is CMMI Maturity Level 5! ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 27001:2013 certified as well. We are one of the Top 10 Artificial Intelligence companies and the best Conversational AI company. Got many national & international awards. Traction: 1 Billion+ Users, 25M+ MAU, 800K Concurrent users Clients: Google, IRCTC, Indian Railways, LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India), Max Life Insurance, NPCI, BHIM UPI, RBI (DigiSaathi), Union Bank, RuPay, 70+ Banks, ATC/ITC Ltd, Mahindra Group, Carandbike, IGL, KSRTC, SRS Travels, Gray Matter, BIAL (Bengaluru Airport), Aquetas (US), Gamerji, Aura Health Solution (US), Malahide Shopping(UAE), Digital India, NSDC, Unilever, GRSE (Indian Navy - Defence), Finastra (UK), Innovation Hills (Japan),Comviva, BEL, Chandigarh Smart City, Invest India, Karnataka Government, Startup India AI (The National AI Portal of India - a MEITY, NEGD & NASSCOM Initiative), founder is SEBI, Hero MotoCorp, and more.
Angel Investor
Jan 2024
Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in
2020
Advisor and Investor
Jun 2020
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24) • Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
2016
Principal Software Engineer/Lead
Nov 2016
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the worlds greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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