# 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.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-founder at Manifold
- **Organizations:** Manifold, Kyruus, Endeca Technologies, MathWorks, MIT
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** S.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founder and CEO of Manifold, a vertical AI platform for life sciences, Co-founder and former CTO of Kyruus, a leading care-access platform for large US health systems, Early team member at Endeca Technologies, acquired by Oracle

## Career timeline

- **Late 1990s** — Begins career at MathWorks working on scientific computation, then moves into startups
- **2000s** — Early team member at Endeca Technologies, building search and faceted navigation data structures; co-inventor on several granted patents. Endeca later acquired by Oracle
- **2010** — Co-founds Kyruus and serves as CTO, building a data-driven platform to match patients and physicians
- **2016** — Founds Manifold as a pragmatic AI lab bringing research into application; several co-founders connected to MIT
- **2024** — Manifold raises $15M Series A and launches its AI-powered platform for clinical research
- **2025-12** — Manifold raises $18M Series B led by Reach Capital, total funding ~$40M, repositioning as vertical AI for life sciences

## Achievements

- Co-founder and CEO of Manifold, a vertical AI platform for life sciences
- Co-founder and former CTO of Kyruus, a leading care-access platform for large US health systems
- Early team member at Endeca Technologies, acquired by Oracle
- Co-inventor on several granted patents in search and faceted navigation
- Raised approximately $40M in total venture funding for Manifold across Series A and Series B
- Created Manifold's 'Lean AI' methodology for building production machine learning

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Manifold raised an $18M Series B led by Reach Capital, bringing total funding to about $40M and positioning the company as an emerging category leader in vertical AI for life sciences.

## Links

- Website: https://manifold.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinaysethmohta/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/vinaysethmohta

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