Having led $1 Million+ rounds as the first institutional investor, I am on the board and advisory board, and mentor startups helping them with technology, strategy, governance, M&A and subsequent fund raises. I started my investment journey in 2014 in a B2C fast food startup which is currently up 30x to $300M. I have 40+ investments, the majority in deep tech companies, spread across US and India. My passion and primary area of interest is AI and more specifically Generative AI. Some of the early-stage portfolio companies include:WriteSonic, OnFinance, AuraML, Wevo, Evolve, Revry, EarthsenseMy later stage investments span multiple industries and are alongside Tier1 VCs like A16Z, Sequoia, Softbank, Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Mayfield, Founders Fund and include RoofStock, RudderStack, Balbix, Alongside. Maya Valley Ventures leads private placements into the top growth-stage AI companies, enabling individual investors and Family Offices to diversify their portfolios with a reasonable minimum investment amount. We have recently invested in OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and Perplexity, and many more are in the pipeline.Currently, there are two open opportunities:- A Y Combinator focused fund with a top decile performance- Groq, a Nvidia competitor and leading AI inference chip disruptor.

Board Director of COGOS, having led a $1 million investment in the supply-chain leader via the Indian Angel Network

Data Science Fellow doing EDA, visualization and modeling. Projects include Recurrent Neural Network to generate text ads with a LSTM model from scratch as well as fine tuning industry leading GPTs like GPT-NEO, time series (Vector AutoRegression and RNN) to forecast number of accidents, classification of a post into either of two subreddits and linear regression to predict the price of a home. Published my model on https://huggingface.co/nirajsaran/AdTextGenerator

Monetization platform for Virtual Reality content.

VP Engineering at TenMarks Education, a startup acquired by Amazon, since June 2015.Prior to that, in Amazon Delhi, was responsible for the Registrations platform within the Marketplace group. Built out the entire development team from scratch while delivering on key initiatives for new and existing 3rd Party Sellers globally.

Responsible for defining and executing the technology vision for the company. Built the product development organization from the ground up into a highly effective global development team. Conceptualized and built an innovative and successful Cloud platform for UCaaS automated provisioning and service management delivery working with major partners, clients, analysts and investors. Architected and launched major new products for Social Networking, mobile and analytics.

Responsible for the technology vision and strategy for the company. Manage multiple engineering teams, DevOps and IT

- Responsible for a number of products and services to improve monetization and relevance for Microsoft’s Bing online search and advertisements group. - Incubated and delivered a crowd-sourcing platform to help the service business scale back-office editorial tasks.- Delivered version 1.0 of the Communicator IP Phone and Communicator Mobile for Windows Mobile.

Responsible for the highly-available, carrier-class IP Voice and Video Mail product proven to support millions of users. Responsible for the product strategy, architecture and successful delivery across multiple product releases.