The team
Operators and engineers.
AI Foundry Ventures is built around a small core team that ships across the stack. We hire senior, full-stack, and ship together.
Core
Sunjoy Rao
Founder & CEO
Twenty years of operating in fintech, AI, sports tech, and civic tech. Founder of AI Foundry Ventures LLP. Previously: SportingMindz Technology (sports analytics, Cricket South Africa, IPL auction teams), MonkeyBox FoodTech, GridWorks AI, SportsNest Retail. Operates across India and Australia.
Vignesh Kamath
Engineering
Full-stack engineer at AI Foundry Ventures. Ships across the platform catalog and the portfolio. Bengaluru.
Shreedhar Rajaram
Brand & Growth
Seventeen years of brand management and business building with leading consumer brands across retail, consumer durables, and FMCG. Leadership roles inside the Aditya Birla Group, USL Diageo, and Puma; built and led marketing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, TTK Prestige, and Louis Philippe — where he was part of the team that grew India’s largest premium apparel brand 5X in four years. Founder and managing partner at Upaghna Transformation Services, a boutique business consulting firm.
Vijay R Bharadwaj
Cricket & Sport
Former India international cricketer. Television commentator on the world’s most-watched cricket tournaments. Former head of talent scouting for a top franchise-cricket team. Held a technology-governance role with the sport’s global governing body. Founder of the anchor cricket academy. The sporting credibility of the firm.
Joining
We hire seniors who want to ship across the stack.
No specs-throwing-over-walls. No 11-stage interview gauntlets. Tell us what you’ve shipped and what you’d ship if we hired you tomorrow.