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Sri Rao

Investor

United States

Overview 

Sri Rao is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor with a diverse background in product development and company building, currently serving as an Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With a focus on venture capital and start-ups, Sri has invested in a range of companies across various sectors, showcasing expertise in strategic partnerships and business innovation.

Work Experience 

  • Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    2024 - Current

    Launching a multidisciplinary lab at the intersection of agentic AI, human-machine interactions, and corporate innovation—exploring commercial applications, policies, and the impact of machine intelligence in areas including spatial computing, embedded/edge compute, and workforce multiplication.

  • Venture Partner

    2022

    UNION Labs is an applied DeepTech Venture seed fund/incubator focused on building and backing leading seed-stage startups in Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomy.

  • Investor

    2024

    Deploy intelligent agents that operate seamlessly across any hardware and in any environment. From cutting-edge robotics to next-generation personal assistants, OpenInfer is unlocking the full potential of smart devices everywhere.

  • Investor, Board Member

    2024

    A real-time cognitive backbone that securely connects data, agents, and humans.

  • Investor

    2024

    TieSet builds orchestration and management solutions that make it possible for AI applications to run everywhere, across diverse environments and devices in a privacy-centric and data efficient way.

TieSet offers an advanced AI tool STADLE, optimizing both centralized and decentralized data training for secure and efficient updates.

Raised $668,600.00 from Grace Services LLC, Ultra Holdings and PCI Holdings.

  • Investor

    2024

    An American semiconductor manufacturing company that leverages the ultra-high vacuum environment of space to produce higher yield wafers and ultimately higher performance.

  • Investor, Board Advisor

    2023

    Digitizing institutional investments in emerging managers.

Zive AI revolutionizes fund management for VC managers with its AI-powered platform.

Raised $1,000,000.00 from CerraCap Ventures and 7BC Venture Capital.

  • Investor

    2023

    Distributed SaaS services that make it simple to deploy complex storage configurations in single, multi, and hybrid cloud environments built by industry-leading experts in AI/ML and storage optimization.

Attimis is disrupting cloud storage with groundbreaking solutions and business ideas.

  • Investor

    2023

    SirenOpt makes an AI based real-time sensing and software platform that improves manufacturing yield and performance of thin film products.

SirenOpt provides manufacturing intelligence solutions for nanoscale materials used in semiconductors, electronics, batteries, and aerospace

Raised $9,600,000.00 from Climate Club, Voyager Ventures, Access Industries, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Union Labs Ventures, Impact Science Ventures, Climate Capital, Wireframe Ventures, Courtyard Ventures and Visionaries Tomorrow.

  • Investor

    2023

    Dream3D couples intuitive interfaces with machine intelligence to make it easy for anyone to create beautiful computer graphics.

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