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KV Rao

Entrepreneur

Los Altos, California

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2023

  • Founder

    2023

2012

  • Founder

    2012

    Aviso is the AI-guided Revenue Operating System that helps sales and go-to-market teams accelerate growth, win more deals, and reduce risk. Aviso AI delivers integrated revenue intelligence, drives team-wide actions and course corrections, and augments sales teams while reducing the burden of CRM. With demonstrated results across industry leaders such as Honeywell, Seagate, Elastic, Armis, RingCentral, and Marlin Equity Partners, Aviso works at the frontier of AI across deep learning, speech recognition, decision science, and computer vision.

2016

  • Advisor

    2016

    Advisor to various startups

2010

  • Board Member, SF Bay Area

    2010

    Pratham is the largest educational non-profit in India. It does not focus on inputs (such as libraries, giving out books, serving meals, number of classrooms) as many other non-profits do. Instead, Pratham focuses on outputs, which is, “Is the child actually in school and learning at the right level.”

  • Founder

    2006

2004 - 2006

  • Consultant

    2004 - 2006

    Consulting on product planning, positioning, and business development with several startups, including Blue Vector Systems, SalesCafe, rHub Software, nSite Software, Goodwell Technologies, Cenwave Communications and Elo, Inc.

1999 - 2004

  • Director of Technology

    1999 - 2004

    Worked on various corporate development activities with primary focus on business development, strategic alliances, key accounts, and mergers and acquisitions. Developed and managed intellectual property strategy and technology licensing activities. Responsibilities included technical marketing, and creating a platform marketing team.

1996 - 1999

  • Applications Engineer

    1996 - 1999

    Pre- and post sales support for SGI high performance computing systems to University and industry customers