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.
Anchors: All ventures
Vignesh Kamath
Engineering
Full-stack engineer at AI Foundry Ventures. Ships across the lending stack at CortexData and the cricket stack at FlikVault and SKrutin. Bengaluru.
Anchors: CortexData · FlikVault · SKrutin
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 Studios, a boutique business consulting firm.
Anchors: PRISM · Portfolio brand
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.
Anchors: FlikVault · SKrutin
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.