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The Man Who Made Oracle His Business - Literally
In San Mateo, California, there is a consulting firm where the CEO interviews prospective hires with a single qualifying question: "What did you build at Oracle?" Not managed. Not configured. Built. It's a firm where a recruiter can call any client and hear roughly the same thing: "We're happy. We'll be back." The CEO is Vikash Kothari, and Infovity - the company he co-founded in 2008 - has become the quiet benchmark for Oracle Cloud implementation in North America.
The numbers are almost tedious in their consistency. Around 380 employees. Around $85 million in annual revenue. Over 500 Oracle Cloud implementations delivered across pharmaceuticals, financial services, manufacturing, high tech, food and beverage, and renewable energy. Roughly 90% of new business from referrals and repeat clients. Oracle Platinum Partner status held for over a decade. None of these figures happened by accident.
Kothari graduated from the National Institute of Technology in Silchar with a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering around 1992 - one of India's rigorous technical institutes that graduated engineers accustomed to building real systems under real constraints. He moved into the orbit of Oracle, first as an engineer writing code, then in applications consulting where the actual complexity of enterprise ERP and CRM systems becomes visible. Those years weren't just training. They were reconnaissance.
"During 2017, we took a giant step forward in every measurable way, including dramatically increasing our revenue."
- Vikash Kothari, CEO, InfovityBuilt by Insiders. Run on Referrals.
By the time Kothari founded Infovity in 2008, the move wasn't a leap so much as an extraction. He took his understanding of Oracle's architecture - how it was designed, where it was strong, where clients would struggle - and built a firm positioned to answer precisely those questions. Many of his earliest hires came from Oracle itself. Today, nearly 70% of Infovity's staff are former Oracle employees, including product leaders who contributed to designing the applications Infovity now deploys. When Infovity sells Oracle Cloud implementation, the pitch isn't "we know the product." The pitch is "we made the product."
That insider density creates something unusual in the consulting world: genuine credibility with clients who have been burned before. Enterprise IT projects are notoriously prone to failure - misaligned expectations, underestimated complexity, consultants who learned the system two quarters ago. Infovity's model is the inverse. Deep specialization in a single vendor's ecosystem, executed by people who understand how Oracle Cloud applications were designed to work before clients ever encountered them.
The result is a 90% repeat and referral business rate. In enterprise consulting, that number is essentially the whole story. It means Infovity doesn't primarily compete on price or marketing reach - it competes on outcomes, and the outcomes have been consistent enough that clients send new clients. Kothari doesn't advertise this fact modestly. It is the centerpiece of how Infovity presents itself publicly.
A Focused Bet, Doubled Down
At some point around 2017, Infovity made a decision that says everything about how Kothari thinks. The company sold its Recvue subscription billing division. Recvue wasn't failing - it was simply a distraction from a singular thesis: Oracle Cloud is the future of enterprise software, and Infovity will be its best implementation partner. Full stop. The divestiture freed resources and attention to concentrate entirely on Oracle's growing ecosystem of ERP, HCM, EPM, SCM, CX, and cloud infrastructure solutions.
That year, 2017, was also the year Kothari described as the one where Infovity "took a giant step forward in every measurable way, including dramatically increasing revenue." It was the inflection point where focused strategy met expanding Oracle Cloud adoption by enterprise clients across every sector Infovity served.
The practice spans what might be the broadest cross-industry Oracle deployment portfolio of any specialized firm in North America. Infovity has implemented Oracle Cloud solutions for pharmaceutical companies navigating FDA compliance, manufacturers managing complex supply chains, financial services firms requiring audit-grade financial controls, renewable energy companies tracking project costs, and non-profits managing grants. The common thread isn't industry - it's Oracle, and the Infovity team that knows it cold.
The Venture Capitalist in the Room
Kothari's biography doesn't stop at Infovity. In 2022, he joined BAT VC as a General Partner - a venture capital firm operating across the United States and India with a thesis anchored in fintech, healthtech, and web3. The dual US-India investment strategy connects directly to the professional world Kothari navigated from his engineering days in India to his building years in Silicon Valley.
BAT VC's dual-market focus mirrors Infovity's own workforce geography - a company with American clients and deep roots in Indian technical talent. Kothari's VC role isn't an escape from the enterprise world so much as a widening aperture on it. The startups he backs will, eventually, need the kind of enterprise infrastructure his Oracle consulting experience represents. It's a coherent worldview: understand how large systems are built, invest in what disrupts them, and operate at the intersection.
The combination - CEO of a profitable, growing consulting firm and General Partner in a cross-border venture fund - is less common than it sounds. Most founders stay in their lane. Kothari seems to have decided the lane is wide enough for both.
Career Arc
From NIT Silchar to Silicon Valley
Achievements
The Scoreboard
- Scaled Infovity from a startup to $85M annual revenue with 380+ employees over 17 years
- Certified Oracle Platinum Partner - maintained for 11+ consecutive years
- Oracle CX Breakthrough Partner of the Year - North America
- Oracle Excellence Award - Construction & Engineering Industry Solutions (2025)
- 500+ Oracle Cloud implementations delivered across pharma, finance, manufacturing, and more
- Built a team where ~70% of employees are former Oracle staff
- Achieved ~90% repeat and referral business rate - a benchmark figure in enterprise IT
- Grew Infovity to serve 15+ industries including renewable energy, banking, life sciences, and food production
- General Partner at BAT VC - dual US-India venture fund targeting fintech, healthtech, and web3
- Led strategic divestiture of Recvue subscription billing division to concentrate on Oracle Cloud
Fun Facts
The Details Worth Knowing
Infovity's team includes people who literally designed the Oracle Cloud products they now implement. Clients aren't just hiring consultants - they're hiring the original architects.
A 90% referral and repeat business rate in enterprise IT consulting is almost statistically improbable. The industry average hovers around 40-50%. Infovity runs at double that.
Kothari deliberately sold a profitable product (Recvue) to keep Infovity pure Oracle. In an industry obsessed with diversification, that's an unusual kind of conviction.
The company name "Infovity" merges "information" and "infinity" - signaling boundless data-driven enterprise solutions. Founded in 2008, it has outlasted hundreds of IT consulting firms that launched the same year.
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