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    Sravanth Aluru

    SravanthAluru

    CEO and Co-FounderAvataar
    2026
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    About

    Sravanth Aluru is the CEO of Avataar.ai, which he co-founded over a decade ago as an AI- transformation partner for large global enterprises. Avataar works across industries including Real Estate, Healthcare, Retail, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, building agentic, self-learning AI platforms that operate real-world workflows at scale and deliver durable enterprise impact.

    An engineer from IIT Bombay, Sravanth began his career in the early 2000s at Microsoft, at a time when AI was still commonly discussed in terms of “fuzzy” systems. He witnessed first-hand the evolution of intelligent systems—from early fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy approaches to the neural architectures that define modern AI today. These formative years shaped his conviction that intelligence would ultimately live at the core of platforms and organizations, not as surface-level features or tools.

    After earning his MBA from The Wharton School, Sravanth spent the early 2010s on Wall Street, advising technology founders and boards on global scale-ups, M&A, and public listings. From that vantage point, he observed a decisive shift: the world’s leading technology companies began redirecting both organic investment and acquisitions toward foundational AI platforms—laying the groundwork for the AI transformation now unfolding across every major industry.

    Today, Sravanth’s focus is on building Central Organizational Brains—domain-specific, agentic intelligence layers that move far beyond copilots and pilots. These systems embed intelligence directly into how organizations operate, learn, and make decisions, enabling compounding productivity gains, durable value creation, and defensible competitive moats over time. In parallel, Avataar is an active partner in the IndiaAI Mission, contributing to the design of UAI (Universal AI Infrastructure)—often described as a “UPI for AI”—a foundational, interoperable layer for deploying and scaling domain-specific AI across sectors. Avataar has raised over $55M, backed by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global, and operates out of San Francisco and Bangalore.

    Sravanth is a lead inventor on 10+ U.S. patents across AI and computer vision and works closely with enterprises, governments, and ecosystem partners to shape the next phase of AI-native organizations.

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