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Vinay Seth Mohta and the human side of the machine
From MIT problem sets to enterprise AI, Vinay Seth Mohta has kept returning to the same question: what happens when the software meets the people who must use it? His route through Endeca, KAYAK and Manifold offers a practical answer.
Vinay Mohta
Vinay Seth Mohta is the CEO and co-founder of Manifold, a vertical AI platform for life sciences that aims to make clinical research roughly 10 times faster and a tenth of the cost. An MIT-trained engineer who began at MathWorks and was an early team member at Endeca (acquired by Oracle) before co-founding and serving as CTO of Kyruus, Mohta started Manifold in 2016 as a pragmatic AI lab and has since rebuilt it into a product company tackling what he calls the 'Life Sciences Chasm.' He raised an $18M Series B in December 2025, bringing total funding to about $40M.