Rakesh Mathur
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
B. Tech, ME 1973-01-01 - 1978-01-01
The University of Texas at Arlington
MS, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research 1978-01-01 - 1980-01-01Work Experience
iON Health
Current
iON Health
Fizz
Current
Fizz
Whiterabbit.ai
Current
Whiterabbit.ai
percipient.ai
Current
percipient.ai
H2O.ai
Current
H2O.ai
Gupshup
Current
Gupshup
Flywheel Software (acquired by investor group in April 2017)
2014-09-01 - 2017-01-01
Flywheel Software (acquired by investor group in April 2017)
Droptalk
2012-08-01 - 2014-04-01
Droptalk
JustChalo
2012-12-01 - 2013-06-01
JustChalo
SnapStick, Inc.
2010-08-01 - 2012-05-01
SnapStick, Inc.
Skills
Summary
Rakesh is a serial entrepreneur and start up investor. His track record includes: o Co-founding 10 start-ups, of which 6 were sold to major technology companies. The current value of the equity for which these acquisitions were done is in the several tens of billions of dollars. Of these, Junglee was the first acquisition done by Amazon. o Gupshup.io, a B2B messaging platform, he cofounded, and H2O.ai, an open-source AI platform, for which he was a Series A lead investor, are Unicorns. o Percipient.ai and Whiterabbit.ai are late-stage AI startups, disrupting the intelligence and cancer detection spaces. o Members of the Junglee team have been involved in the founding, early-stage funding, and leadership of several of the most important technology companies. o Fizz, his latest startup is an anonymous, moderated social media network launched at Stanford in August 2021 by Stanford sophomores which creates safe, authentic, and fun communities. The product has saturated the undergraduate user base at Stanford in one quarter.
