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Rajeev Pathak
Rajeev Pathak is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbots Inc., a Dover, Delaware-based startup building agentic AI co-pilots for corporate finance and accounting. Hyperbots raised a $6.5M Series A in May 2025 co-led by Arkam Ventures and Athera Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $8.5M+. Pathak previously founded funtoot, an education AI company acquired by Embibe in 2019, where he then served as SVP. Before that, he spent over a decade at Wipro running a $100M+ technology business and began his career as a satellite engineer at ISRO working on the INSAT program. He holds a PGSM from IIM Bangalore.
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.