Dr. Venkat Srinivasan combines three rarely-found profiles in a single investor—AI scientist with a PhD, serial founder who built and exited multiple AI companies over decades, and former finance professor—giving him unusually deep hands-on experience as both an AI operator and academic researcher. He focuses specifically on explainable, traceable AI systems rather than black-box models, insisting that AI must be central to a business with defensible scientific IP, while maintaining strong roots in both Indian and US ecosystems through his journey from chartered accountant to finance professor to AI entrepreneur.