Rajesh Srivathsa Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Welcome to ViXR, where the minds behind the magic—my co-founders, our stellar team, and yours truly—are conjuring up a whole new vision for the future of product demos and support.The ViXR platform empowers manufacturers to dazzle customers with extended reality product experiences. Imagine: intelligent, augmented, ambient, dynamic augmented reality demos breaking free from the shackles of traditional, mundane catalogs.Now, let me introduce myself—I'm the go-to guy, ViXR's ambassador, hitting the streets and spreading the word. I'm all about serving our customers, soaking up feedback to fuel the constant upgrade of the platform to serve up even more awesomeness. Oh, and yes, on the hunt for those checks to keep the home fires burning!

Nadathur Technologies was the technology venture investment and incubation arm within the Nadathur Group, a mid-sized Asian family office. Founded by NSR, the distinguished co-founder of Infosys, the Nadathur Group is a single-family office with diverse investment interests.At Nadathur Technologies, I actively worked with and led to a successful exit a Nadathur Group cybersecurity portfolio company and incubated a consumer chat startup. Additionally, I managed the participation of the Nadathur Group as a Limited Partner (LP) in select venture funds and in Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) investing in late-stage Food Tech and Crypto companies.

I incubated and invested in Myndbee as a portfolio startup of Nadathur Technologies. Our goal was to whip up a chat platform that would become the go-to mobile chat app in the era of WhatsApp, FB messenger, and WeChat. To stand out in the crowd, we sprinkled some fun into the mix. Enter our first app, Diffr, where users could be themselves, go undercover, or even pull off some neat impersonations within closed groups.But, when some users roasted us for allowing impersonations (oh boy!) for the mischief it could create, we rapidly pivoted to a picture messaging experience with Picpal. Users embarked on a chat journey by exchanging selfies within lively collages. The initial frenzy of adoption was electrifying, but like a rollercoaster, the ride turned into a casual spin.So we gracefully called it a day in mid-2017, closing the curtain on our three-year wild, yet oh-so-fun, startup adventure.

Singapore, Sg

Next Story Group (previously Silver Needle Hospitality), a hotel management company overseeing a portfolio of over 40 hotels within the Australia and Southeast Asia regions, underwent a phase of transition in 2015. In response to this organisational shift, I was tasked by the investors to restructure the Information Technology (IT) team. Additionally, I was mandated with streamlining and optimizing software systems across property management systems (PMS), revenue management, loyalty management, back-end operations, financial systems, distribution channels, and in-room technologies. I re-built the IT team, undertook the transformation, and in due course, hired a full-time CTO to power the Group's growth.

Ojas was an early-stage technology venture capital firm investing in startups in India and the US. Working with entrepreneurs from the other side of the table was a fantastic and humbling experience. Our investments were across retail tech, ad tech, mobilility, cybersecurity, and fintech startups in India and the US.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

I was responsible for the P&L of the mobile product and services business unit of 350+ passionate team members spread across the US and India when Aricent was spun out from Flextronics. Our customer base in the US, Europe, and Asia comprised of mobile OEMs and ODMs, and our business development ecosystem extended across silicon, operating systems, and UX vendors.

Austin, Texas, Us

Emuzed, the startup I co-founded, was acquired by Flextronics in 2005. I was charged with managing the P&L of the mobile multimedia software business unit delivering solutions to mobile OEMs and Service Providers in the US, Europe and Asia. Parallelly, I was part of the CTO's office working on a few strategic projects aimed at adding value to the OEM offerings of Flextronics.

Our vision at Emuzed was to power every smartphone with music playback, photo capture and video communications. In 2001, very few phones had multimedia capabilities and smartphones were just being designed. We started the company in 2001 just before the tech bust. With VC funding having dried up, our only source of sustaining and growing was revenues - which I was responsible for. I set up and led our sales and marketing teams in the US, Europe and Asia. And our business development team to effectively work with our ecosystem of silicion, OS and UX partners. I learnt my most valuable lessons in building a business -- great team, fantastic communications and a laser focus on people, product, delivery and revenues. Within 3 years, we had 8 of the top 10 mobile OEMs shipping our multimedia software solutions in their smartphones. It was extremely gratifying to see our software in a majority of the smartphones shipped around the world; and to lead the company to become cash flow positive and profitable. We were acquired by Flextronics in 2005.

Lucent Digital Video was spun out from Lucent in 1997 with internal venture funding. The US was transitioning to Digital TV from analog around 1997; and we at LDV were instrumental in bringing about this change by developing broadcast encoding and decoding video products. I was responsible for the algorithms and software of our High Definition encoding products, and our statistical multiplexing product which increased the number of channels that could be broadcast by 30% in the same bandwidth. I represented LDV at international standard bodies; and authored international standards documents as well as peer reviewed publications. And supported business development and sales wearing an FAE hat as and when required. We were acquired by Lucent.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM had almost half the market share of broadcast MPEG video encoding and decoding chipsets. I was responsible for enhancing the quality and performance by developing advanced algorithms and implementing in the chipsets. I also represented IBM at international standard bodies and published peer reviewed papers at scientific conferences.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Continuing Education, Advanced Programme In Digital Health And Imaging

Masters, Electrical & Communcations

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronics And Communications Engineering

High School

High School