Krutrim
Navendu A. is an experienced executive with a strong background in technology and business leadership, currently serving as SVP and Head of Business at Krutrim and a Board Member at GeoSpoc. With a notable tenure at Ola Electric from July 2021 to March 2025, Navendu held multiple senior positions, including SVP and Group CIO, as well as VP of Engineering. Prior to that, Navendu was the Head of Artificial Intelligence at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd) from September 2020 to September 2022. The entrepreneurial journey includes founding Canvos.ai, specializing in AI-based face recognition and prediction algorithms from August 2017 to September 2020. Navendu holds a B.Tech and M.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and completed early education at Rani Laxmi Bai Public School in Jhansi.
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Krutrim
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Building AI computing for the future. Krutrim, a part of the Ola group, is working on creating the AI computing stack of the future. We endeavor to deliver a state-of-the-art AI computing stack that encompasses the AI computing infrastructure, AI Cloud, foundational models, and AI-powered end applications for the Indian market. Our envisioned AI computing stack can empower consumers, startups, enterprises and scientists across India and the world to build their end AI applications or AI models. While we are building foundational models across text, voice, and vision relevant to our focus markets, we are also developing AI training and inference platforms that enable AI research and development across industry domains. The platforms being built by Krutrim have the potential to impact millions of lives in India, across income and education strata, and across languages. The team at Krutrim represents a convergence of talent across AI research, Applied AI, Cloud Engineering, and semiconductor design. Our teams operate from three locations: Bangalore, Singapore & San Francisco.