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Abid Mohammed and the Unfashionable Work of Making AI Behave
The Cognida.ai co-founder has spent two decades moving from code to architecture to enterprise AI. His recurring question is refreshingly inconvenient: will the system still work when the demonstration is over?
Prathitha Iyengar Took the Scenic Route from Network Faults to AI Narratives
An electrical engineer became a copywriter, then learned to market deeply technical products. At Cognida.ai, that zigzag career has become a practical advantage.
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy is Co-Founder and CTO of Cognida.ai, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025. With 30+ years in technology - starting at CMC Limited in 1994 and spending a decade as VP at Hitachi Vantara - he now leads the engineering behind Zunō, Cognida's agentic AI platform that cuts enterprise AI deployment timelines from 6-8 months down to 10-12 weeks. Based in Hyderabad, he holds master's degrees from both the University of Hyderabad and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has helped grow Cognida.ai to 250+ employees and $37.7M ARR.