Venkat Srinivasan is currently the Managing Partner of Innospark Ventures, an early stage venture fund based in Boston investing in early stage AI startups.  He has deep expertise in AI and computational algorithms, and deep functional knowledge in multiple domains including operations research, finance and accounting.  He has founded several successful AI-led startups, including eCredit, Corporate Fundamentals and Rage Frameworks.

Venkat also founded GyanAI which is the only explainable language model with none of the limitations of current LLMs, EnglishHelper to leverage AI to solve the significant literacy gap in English in K-12 and adult learners at scale globally, Creda Health as a Digital Health Assistant for chronic condition management and PrismX for automating software development from requirements expressed in natural language.

Venkat was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Indus Entrepreneurs [TiE] in 2017.  He holds 8 patents, and in his brief academic tenure, has published over 30 research papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, has co-edited two books and is the author of a book titled, The Intelligent Enterprise in the Era of Big Data (Wiley, 2017). Venkat has strongly advocated for and believes that successful AI-led transformation will be characterized by interpretability, traceability, context awareness and the ability to learn from sparse data environments.

Venkat currently serves on the Board of New Profit, a pioneering venture philanthropy organization; the American India Foundation, catalyzing economic and social change in India. Venkat is also a member of the Dean’s Executive Council at the D’More-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.