Aku Srikanth
About Aku Srikanth
Data Scientist -> Product -> Venture Capital -> Tech Exec Founding AI Product Team: (1) DataRobot MLOps ($6.3B valuation with a $1B raise) (2) IBM Watson ($13.7B in revenue) (3) Red Hat AI ($2.6 billion in 2018, up 21% YoY) Awarded EB1 Greencard (based on extraordinary abilities in AI) Founder of several AI communities: (1) AI Amalgamators — Microsoft’s AI Exec & Venture Capital Talks: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/09/27/ai-corporates-startups-and-venture/ (2) AI Influencers — 1K list of personal relationships to CEOs, VCs & AI Execs: https://www.genaivc.space/ (3) WomenOfGenAI: https://womenofgenai.com AI Council — Community of 10K AI Execs (Programs sponsored by Google, Salesforce, SVB with keynote moderators such as Forbes Midas List Cloud 100 Editor) Speaker on AI / ML: NASDAQ, CNBC, Forbes, NetApp Insights, GenAI Summit, Google, SVB, Salesforce, Pragmatic Marketing Core Strengths – Product Management & Venture Capital, AI / ML Evangelism, Generative AI, Developers, Team Building & People Management, Mentoring & Coaching, Customer Storytelling, Messaging, Positioning, Execution Aku Aakriti Srikanth is a Director of Product Management. She has led AutoML + MLOps strategy at DataRobot for Snowflake. She was a part of the founding AI team at IBM Watson / Red Hat where she was the Head of AI Strategy and led the NVIDIA AI Strategy. She started her career at the Hedge fund D.E.Shaw & Co. & Deloitte, worked in the VC space where she invested in startups and built a VC Council for Microsoft for Startups (see video). She advised AI startups such as H2O.ai and the AI Foundation (funded by Chanel). She was featured on Nasdaq’s Leading Women in AI in 2023 where she rang the opening bell and went live on CNBC. She has also been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List and the VentureBeat Women in AI Top 4 Finalist List. She hails from Kellogg School of Management, holds an MS in Computer Science degree from the Ohio State University and Bachelors in Engineering (Information Science) from RVCE. She is also passionate about helping rescue puppies, women in AI and was awarded the EB1 green card based on extraordinary abilities in AI. She also founded “Investing in Startups & Identifying the Rocketship” where she actively helps AI entrepreneurs / VCs through sponsored programs with Google, Microsoft, Salesforce and others. She has successfully helped female AI founders such as Vendia go from pre-seed to later stage via her network of VCs and corporates thereby driving over $380M.