Srini Rao, Ph.D.

At Mogul AI, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential. Through our pioneering AI-driven technology solutions and inclusive community, we support talent and organizations to achieve their goals and cultivate meaningful success. An AI-first innovator in the $200 Billion Global Recruitment Market, our Mogul AI Candidate Sourcing and CRM software offers an unbiased and comprehensive solution for inclusive workplaces. This recruitment technology is one of the worlds leading resources for the Fortune 1000 and hyper-growth startups to recruit top talent. In 2023, Mogul AI was honored as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and currently serves on the AI Governance Alliance, helping to shape global regulation on AI alongside Heads of State and Global CEOs. Praised by Sheryl Sandberg as “the number one platform” and referred to as "the perfect business" by Melinda Gates, Mogul AI is backed by investors SoftBank, Hearst Corporation, the founders of Comcast, LinkedIn Learning, Match.com, and The Knot.com. Mogul AI has been named the World’s Largest Platform for Women and Diverse Professionals by Business Insider, Best Partner for Finding Top Talent by Inc. Magazine, and Top Partner for Marketing Your Company by Forbes; and is the subject of a case study called "Redefining Mogul" by Harvard Business School. With the revenue we earn, Mogul AI invests in and provides free resources for the economic advancement of individuals in need globally, through international partners such as the United Nations.

The motivation for Purvi Capital took shape as the great blizzard of 2011 poured sleet and snow at rates exceeding 4 inches/hour over Chicago streets. What started out as just another routine day, ended in quite a humbling experience. It continues to remind us that while some events are well beyond our control, we can always find opportunities in adversities. By being prepared, by choosing who we work with and by picking meaningfully the problems to work on. Sometimes, it takes a blizzard to offer opportunities for making snow-angels and skiing down lake shore drive. At Purvi Capital, LLC, we provide strategic planning, business mentorship and access to seed funding to early-stage technology startups with an underlying capacity and intent for high impact. We closely partner with highly passionate & motivated teams pursuing simple, intelligent, scalable ideas and support them through the conceptualization, MVP implementation, product-market fit & early growth phases. We strive to align ourselves with the long-term interests of mentee firms with high-impact, high-return partnerships. On occasions, we selectively engage in providing hands-on and strategic consulting services in the areas of Evolutionary Computation and Virtual Intelligence to tech-centric and data-centric companies to help them stand out from the crowd by using these powerful technologies. On a positioning chart with shareholder value on X-axis and sustainable, holistic stakeholder impact on Y-axis, we like to work with startups aimed at being in the top-center to top-right quadrant.

Pragya System’s mission is to help working learners and college students align learning pathways to careers and jobs. Pragya's proprietary linguistic AI powered solution links learning pathways to skills and labor market intelligence to drive higher-ed enrollment, retention and rapid workforce re-skilling. Pragya serves as a lifelong learning compass for working learners to meet their reskilling and upskilling needs throughout their career. - Learners are increasingly career-driven and selective, and want to see a clear link between educational choices and career outcomes. Colleges are being forced to rethink their enrollment strategies, as alternate training options are emerging to meet employer needs. Pragya uses an outcome-driven approach to enrollment yield to help identify and enroll candidates with the best alignment between their career goals and their academic program choices. Pragya has partnered with several leading higher ed institutions to showcase ROI of their programs, unlock unique insights and drive student engagement t improve enrollment and retention. - Hiring for entry level jobs is often a challenge because there are no skill-aligned training programs or college pathways specifically designed to meet job requirements. This results in expensive on-boarding and in-house training to bridge the skill gap. Also, employers don’t have visibility to current employee skill development and rely on 3rd party training and education of which they have little control over. Pragya’s AI-based lifelong learning solution analyzes learner’s skills and enables precise on-demand competency-based training of prospective (and current) employees that maps directly to specific job skill requirements. Pragya is backed by top investors and advisors, a winner of the NSF SBIR grant, and one of 10 companies selected for the global XPRIZE Rapid Re-skilling competition.

CIMCON Lighting was acquired by Quantela, Inc in August 2021. To stay up-to-date please follow us on our LinkedIn page @Quantela Inc.

Constant Therapy Health is a next-generation digital therapeutics company that believes technology can improve access to therapy, reduce the cost of delivering it, and ultimately increase the efficacy of therapy. We developed Constant Therapy, an award-winning cognitive, language, and speech therapy mobile app designed for people with brain injury or cognitive disorders that gives them direct access to exercises that can reignite and rebuild their cognitive, speech, and language functions. Founded in science and built by a team of top neuroscientists and clinicians at Boston University, Constant Therapy has already been used by tens of thousands of patients, who have helped us create the world’s largest brain rehabilitation databases, and the insights that can improve the effectiveness, efficiency and delivery of brain rehabilitation.

Vasisth Capital Private Limited is the first Indian hedge fund with a relative value strategy, to receive its SEBI AIF Category 3 registration. Also being one of the first SEBI registered Investment adviser to be based out of Hyderabad, Vasisth has a track record of helping investors generate over 28% in annualized returns post fees. Vasisth's flagship product is Vasisth Relative Value Fund. The fund was launched on Sept 14th 2015. Vasisth relative value fund has completed four years with three of them as amongst the best performing hedge funds in India. Vasisth's philosophy is to understand a small number of highly liquid blue chip companies deeply, value stocks based on business fundamentals, and trade based on relative value and exploiting randomness. Started by Ramesh Callore with a vision to be one of the best performing hedge funds to deliver best in class risk adjusted returns, Vasisth has a team with 40 plus years of experience in the Financial industry with industry majors such as Credit Suisse, Fidelity. Vasisth has strong capabilities in Research with over 5 years of tracking about 30 companies in 10 sectors. Vasisth also has developed sector specific relative value models back tested to upto 7 years. Vasisth has partnered with industry leaders such as KPMG, Grant Thornton, IC Legal, Edelweiss, and others to deliver a world class experience to clients. Hedge funds are a nascent industry in India. Simply defined, a hedge fund is an actively managed, pooled investment vehicle that is open to only a limited group of sophisticated/accredited investors. Performance of a hedge fund is measured in absolute return units, as opposed to mutual funds where the performance is measured relative to an industry benchmark such as NIFTY or Sensex. Hedge funds are considered generally better at protecting downsides in market downturns, due to the hedging strategies they employ.

At Mogul AI, our vision is to unlock the world’s greatest potential. Through our pioneering AI-driven technology solutions and inclusive community, we support talent and organizations to achieve their goals and cultivate meaningful success. An AI-first innovator in the $200 Billion Global Recruitment Market, our Mogul AI Candidate Sourcing and CRM software offers an unbiased and comprehensive solution for inclusive workplaces. This recruitment technology is one of the worlds leading resources for the Fortune 1000 and hyper-growth startups to recruit top talent. In 2023, Mogul AI was honored as a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, and currently serves on the AI Governance Alliance, helping to shape global regulation on AI alongside Heads of State and Global CEOs. Praised by Sheryl Sandberg as “the number one platform” and referred to as "the perfect business" by Melinda Gates, Mogul AI is backed by investors SoftBank, Hearst Corporation, the founders of Comcast, LinkedIn Learning, Match.com, and The Knot.com. Mogul AI has been named the World’s Largest Platform for Women and Diverse Professionals by Business Insider, Best Partner for Finding Top Talent by Inc. Magazine, and Top Partner for Marketing Your Company by Forbes; and is the subject of a case study called "Redefining Mogul" by Harvard Business School. With the revenue we earn, Mogul AI invests in and provides free resources for the economic advancement of individuals in need globally, through international partners such as the United Nations.

The motivation for Purvi Capital took shape as the great blizzard of 2011 poured sleet and snow at rates exceeding 4 inches/hour over Chicago streets. What started out as just another routine day, ended in quite a humbling experience. It continues to remind us that while some events are well beyond our control, we can always find opportunities in adversities. By being prepared, by choosing who we work with and by picking meaningfully the problems to work on. Sometimes, it takes a blizzard to offer opportunities for making snow-angels and skiing down lake shore drive. At Purvi Capital, LLC, we provide strategic planning, business mentorship and access to seed funding to early-stage technology startups with an underlying capacity and intent for high impact. We closely partner with highly passionate & motivated teams pursuing simple, intelligent, scalable ideas and support them through the conceptualization, MVP implementation, product-market fit & early growth phases. We strive to align ourselves with the long-term interests of mentee firms with high-impact, high-return partnerships. On occasions, we selectively engage in providing hands-on and strategic consulting services in the areas of Evolutionary Computation and Virtual Intelligence to tech-centric and data-centric companies to help them stand out from the crowd by using these powerful technologies. On a positioning chart with shareholder value on X-axis and sustainable, holistic stakeholder impact on Y-axis, we like to work with startups aimed at being in the top-center to top-right quadrant.

Pragya System’s mission is to help working learners and college students align learning pathways to careers and jobs. Pragya's proprietary linguistic AI powered solution links learning pathways to skills and labor market intelligence to drive higher-ed enrollment, retention and rapid workforce re-skilling. Pragya serves as a lifelong learning compass for working learners to meet their reskilling and upskilling needs throughout their career. - Learners are increasingly career-driven and selective, and want to see a clear link between educational choices and career outcomes. Colleges are being forced to rethink their enrollment strategies, as alternate training options are emerging to meet employer needs. Pragya uses an outcome-driven approach to enrollment yield to help identify and enroll candidates with the best alignment between their career goals and their academic program choices. Pragya has partnered with several leading higher ed institutions to showcase ROI of their programs, unlock unique insights and drive student engagement t improve enrollment and retention. - Hiring for entry level jobs is often a challenge because there are no skill-aligned training programs or college pathways specifically designed to meet job requirements. This results in expensive on-boarding and in-house training to bridge the skill gap. Also, employers don’t have visibility to current employee skill development and rely on 3rd party training and education of which they have little control over. Pragya’s AI-based lifelong learning solution analyzes learner’s skills and enables precise on-demand competency-based training of prospective (and current) employees that maps directly to specific job skill requirements. Pragya is backed by top investors and advisors, a winner of the NSF SBIR grant, and one of 10 companies selected for the global XPRIZE Rapid Re-skilling competition.

CIMCON Lighting was acquired by Quantela, Inc in August 2021. To stay up-to-date please follow us on our LinkedIn page @Quantela Inc.

Constant Therapy Health is a next-generation digital therapeutics company that believes technology can improve access to therapy, reduce the cost of delivering it, and ultimately increase the efficacy of therapy. We developed Constant Therapy, an award-winning cognitive, language, and speech therapy mobile app designed for people with brain injury or cognitive disorders that gives them direct access to exercises that can reignite and rebuild their cognitive, speech, and language functions. Founded in science and built by a team of top neuroscientists and clinicians at Boston University, Constant Therapy has already been used by tens of thousands of patients, who have helped us create the world’s largest brain rehabilitation databases, and the insights that can improve the effectiveness, efficiency and delivery of brain rehabilitation.