Krishna Raj

Helping Organisations Choose the Right AI · Ex-Godrej Group GM · 20 Years MENA · Founder ChooseRight.AI · IIMA · Columbia · MIT

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2020
VC🌍 United Arab Emirates
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Nov 2020
Rupeek is India’s leading asset-backed, digital lending fintech platform. Driven by the mission to make credit accessible to Indians in a fair and convenient way, Rupeek is pioneering innovative financial products to help monetize India’s $2 trillion gold. Powered by state-of-the-art technology and an automated asset-light supply chain, Rupeek is transforming the way gold loans are disbursed in India. Through partnerships with leading banks and financial institutions, it is building gold-backed assets, in a low-risk, low-touch and friction-free manner. To know how Rupeek plans to monetise gold, click here: https://bit.ly/3rnlzie Founded in 2015 by Sumit Maniyar, Rupeek is present in over 60+ cities in India and has touched over 5,00,000+ customers. Headquartered in Bangalore, Rupeeks investors include Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Bertelsmann and GGV Capital.
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Nov 2020
Taqanal Energy is powering the shift from fossil fuels and internal combustion engines through its Intelligent Energy Storage Management System which integrates the power of embedded intelligence in the battery with cloud applications.
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Sep 2020
CherriLearn is an impact-driven EdTech company that delivers quality grass-root level education in tier3 and tier4 villages in English along with their regional language through interactive learning aid at a highly affordable price. Having the aim to provide interesting, engaging, and fun added ways of learning to primary school children (1-5), CherriLearn wants to bring a positive impact on the educational quality of regional children. This aim of CherriLearn inspired verified academic experts to join and share their experience and knowledge to make it more relevant to children. Join us in our journey to impact more childrens educational quality positively. Visit us at cherrilearn.com.
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SYZAR was built by three entrepreneurs, each bringing a distinct layer of depth. One spent two decades delivering over 100 million square feet of logistics, industrial and infrastructure facilities across 27 countries. The second founded Earth One Technology — supplying AI, robotics, video analytics and critical surveillance infrastructure to government entities and developers across the GCC, including an exclusive ANPR deployment for Fujairah Police HQ covering 1,300 cameras over 4.5 years. The third was a master networker and institutional relationship builder with a deep career in financial services and insurance — the kind of connector who opens rooms that credentials alone cannot open. That combined foundation — infrastructure execution, technology and government networks, and institutional relationship capital — is what SYZAR brings to every mandate. We work with serious investors — family offices, HNWIs, and institutional capital — on assets that do not appear on Bayut or Property Finder: — Industrial plots and warehouses: Al Sajaa, Dubai South, Jebel Ali — Dangerous goods and specialist logistics facilities — Commercial land in high infrastructure-catalyst zones — Labour camps and worker accommodation assets — Residential and development plots, off-plan and secondary Every mandate is backed by registered DLD transaction evidence, infrastructure catalyst mapping, multi-scenario financial modelling, and risk-weighted returns — not listing prices. Investors requiring residential or off-plan advisory receive the same approach: data first, no dual agency, full financial clarity — with integrated mortgage advisory through a vetted institutional partner, before commitment. RERA certified. Network by referral only. If you want data before decisions, start a conversation.
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Jul 2024
An AI-native platform that incentivizes sustainable transportation choices.
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Dec 2023
At Back2Nature, we are dedicated to creating a sustainable future through our range of biodegradable tableware products. Our mission is to provide eco-friendly alternatives to conventional disposable tableware, reducing waste and promoting environmental stewardship.
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Nov 2023
Global humanitarian-technology accelerator for startups with solutions helpful on humanitarian missions, worldwide - Edition 2023 - starts soon #AGRO #FOOD #TRANSPORTATION #CLIMATE #GREEN #WATER-NEUTRAL
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