Praveen Akkiraju brings rare hands-on experience as a former CEO who built and scaled billion-dollar cloud infrastructure companies (VCE and Viptela) before becoming a venture investor, giving him deep operational knowledge of how enterprise networks and data flows actually work in production. At Insight Partners, he focuses specifically on "agentic SaaS" - his term for the next generation of enterprise software that embeds AI workflows to autonomously execute tasks rather than just provide insights, and he advises founders to architect products with abstraction layers so AI models can be swapped out as the technology rapidly evolves.