# Umesh Sachdev

> Umesh Sachdev is the CEO and co-founder of Uniphore, a Palo Alto-based business AI company he started in Chennai in 2008 with college friend Ravi Saraogi. What began as a multilingual speech recognition startup incubated at IIT Madras has grown into one of the largest AI-native enterprise SaaS companies in the world, serving over 2,500 customers and approaching $1 billion in bookings. In October 2025 Uniphore closed a $260 million Series F co-led by NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake and Databricks.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-founder at Uniphore
- **Organizations:** Uniphore, US India Strategic Partnership Forum (Board), Forbes Technology Council, World Economic Forum (Young Global Leader), Indiaspora
- **From:** Chennai, India
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** Schooling, DAV Public School, Chennai, B.Tech, Information Technology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida
- **Known for:** Built Uniphore into a business AI company serving 2,500+ enterprise customers with approximately $1B in bookings., Raised over $885M in cumulative funding across multiple rounds., Closed a $260M Series F in October 2025 backed by NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake, Databricks, NEA, March Capital and others.

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Co-founded Singularis Technologies with Ravi Saraogi; incubated at IIT Madras.
- **2008** — Received an initial $100,000 grant from India's National Research Development Corporation.
- **2013** — Rebranded the company as Uniphore and pivoted toward enterprise conversational AI.
- **2016** — Named by TIME as one of '10 millennials changing the world' for building a phone that could understand almost any language.
- **2016** — Named to MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35.
- **2017** — Recognized by TIME as a 'Next Generation Leader'.
- **2023** — Named AI Innovator of the Year at the AI Developer World Conference.
- **2025** — Closed $260M Series F with NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake and Databricks joining existing investors.

## Achievements

- Built Uniphore into a business AI company serving 2,500+ enterprise customers with approximately $1B in bookings.
- Raised over $885M in cumulative funding across multiple rounds.
- Closed a $260M Series F in October 2025 backed by NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake, Databricks, NEA, March Capital and others.
- TIME 'Next Generation Leader' and one of '10 millennials changing the world'.
- MIT Technology Review 'Innovators Under 35'.
- Economic Times '40 Under 40'.
- World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
- Forbes Technology Council member.
- Patents in speech recognition technology.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Uniphore closed $260M Series F with strategic investors NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake and Databricks.
- **2025-10** — Sachdev appeared on CNBC framing business AI as a $5 trillion opportunity.
- **2025-12** — YourStory profiled Uniphore's '$2.5B playbook' and Sachdev's strategy.

## Links

- Website: https://uniphore.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umeshsachdev/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/uniphore
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Uniphore/

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