# Vijay Krishnan

> Vijay Krishnan is the co-founder and CTO of Turing, a Palo Alto-based AI company that grew from an algorithmic marketplace for remote software talent into a provider of human data, model evaluation, and applied AI services. An IIT Bombay and Stanford graduate, he began with research in search, natural-language processing, and data mining, worked at Yahoo, co-founded the recommendation company Rover, and has kept one idea constant throughout: machine learning becomes valuable when it is grounded in difficult, practical problems.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at Turing
- **Organizations:** Turing, Foundation Capital, Revcontent, Rover, Flipora, Yahoo, Stanford University, IIT Bombay
- **Education:** Dual degree, B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded two AI companies, Rover and Turing, with longtime collaborator Jonathan Siddharth., Helped grow Rover's personalized discovery product Flipora to 40 million registered users before Rover's acquisition by Revcontent., Co-founded Turing in 2018; the company became a unicorn in 2021 and announced a $2.2 billion valuation with its 2025 Series E.

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Began machine-learning research at IIT Bombay, working with professors Soumen Chakrabarti and Sunita Sarawagi.
- **2005-2007** — Completed an M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University after earning a dual computer-science degree at IIT Bombay.
- **2007-2008** — Worked as a machine-learning scientist in Yahoo's data-mining and research group.
- **2008-2016** — Co-founded and served as CTO of the personalized search and content-recommendation company that became known as Rover; its Flipora product grew to 40 million registered users.
- **2017** — Rover was acquired by Revcontent; Krishnan served as senior vice president of data science.
- **2017-2018** — Spent several months as an entrepreneur in residence at Foundation Capital.
- **2018** — Co-founded Turing with Jonathan Siddharth to use machine learning to vet and match remote software developers with companies.
- **2021** — Turing became a unicorn as remote engineering moved into the mainstream.
- **2023** — Received IIT Bombay's Young Alumni Achiever Award and supported the institute's Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science.
- **2025** — Turing raised a $111 million Series E at a $2.2 billion valuation to expand work in AI data, research and applied systems.
- **2026** — Continued publicly explaining Turing's work in expert human data, reinforcement-learning environments and rigorous model evaluation.

## Achievements

- Co-founded two AI companies, Rover and Turing, with longtime collaborator Jonathan Siddharth.
- Helped grow Rover's personalized discovery product Flipora to 40 million registered users before Rover's acquisition by Revcontent.
- Co-founded Turing in 2018; the company became a unicorn in 2021 and announced a $2.2 billion valuation with its 2025 Series E.
- Received IIT Bombay's Young Alumni Achiever Award.
- Authored research and patents in entity extraction, web-spam detection, natural-language question answering, text categorization, privacy-preserving data mining and bioinformatics.
- Published work including papers at SIGIR, HLT/EMNLP and COLING-ACL; a 2011 biomedical-informatics paper received a distinguished paper award at the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Appeared on The Neon Show to discuss human-in-the-loop data, reinforcement-learning environments, enterprise AI and how AI startups can build defensibility as foundation models improve.
- **2026-04** — Appeared on Grace Gong's podcast to discuss Turing's work on advanced AI systems and the company's evolution from large-scale machine learning platforms.
- **2025-03** — Turing raised a $111 million Series E at a $2.2 billion valuation to expand coding work for model builders and generative-AI applications for enterprises.
- **2024-07** — Presented 'Providing Human Data to Power Foundation Models' at SIGIR's Large Language Model Day in Washington, D.C.

## Links

- Website: https://www.turing.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijay0
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/krishnanvijay
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btw2ePzG0ks

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