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| Born | Srikanth Sundararajan 15 November 1961 |
| Occupation(s) | Professor Innovator Technologist Entrepreneur Investor[3][4] |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse | Usha Srikanth |
| Children | 2 |
Srikanth Sundararajan is an Indian innovator, entrepreneur, professor, and investor.[5][6] He has worked at Hewlett Packard, Informix, and his own startups Pretzel Logic Software, Inc. and International Decision Systems in the U.S. Sundararajan was part of the executive leadership team at HCL. He was CTO at Cognizant Technology Solutions, COO at Persistent Systems Ltd. In the early 1990s, he founded a start-up, Pretzel Logic Software Inc. which was acquired by BEA spinoff WebGain.[7] He is a general partner with Ventureast[8] and was previously a venture partner with Helion Advisors. He was an adjunct faculty of Computer Science at IIT Bhubaneswar and a visiting faculty at ISB (Indian School of Business).[9]
Personal life[edit]
Sundararajan lives in Hyderabad, India with his wife Usha, and two children.[10]
Education[edit]
- PhD in Computer & Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1988-89
- Master of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 1984
- Adjunct Professor, CS, IIT Bhubaneswar
Patents[edit]
- US Inventor number:5,412,758-for Flexible System for Knowledge Acquisition in Expert System Development
Awards and recognition[edit]
- San Jose Business Journal Award for Top 100 Private Held Companies, 1995, 1996, 1997 for Pretzel Logic
- Inc 500 Listing for Pretzel Logic, 1996
- Cognizant “Technology Leadership Award for 2004: Outstanding Performance
References[edit]
- ^ "About Srikanth Sundararajan". ventireeast.net.
- ^ "How startups are realigning edtech, healthtech, communications, other sectors with pandemic challenges". The Financial Express. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ^ "Ventureast leads Series B funding in IoT startup Infinite Uptime". VCCircle. 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ^ Staff Reporter (2021-01-15). "IIT Palakkad project for innovation, incubation". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ^ "Srikanth Sundararajans TEDxTalk". TEDxTalks. 25 April 2020.
- ^ "Srikanth Sundararajans on Education and Technology". EdTech.events. 6 August 2018.
- ^ "Sundararajan BEA spinoff". thedesivc.com. 3 November 2020.
- ^ Telanganatoday (2021-09-08). "VenturEast plans dedicated venture fund for high-end defence". Telangana Today. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ^ "SAI International School holds SAITED 2018 - Times of India". The Times of India. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ^ "Srikanth Sundararajan". www.ventureast.net. Retrieved 2022-01-12.