Responsible AI | AI Ethics | Transparency

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OUR MISSION & VISION

Confidence In AI

Modern business processes require leveraging data-driven decisions at operationally efficient levels. As such, businesses are undergoing rapid change and increasing investment in digital transformation. Organizations are replacing human driven choices with AI/ML models that are automating more and more of these choices and making decisions for humans. The question is, does this elevate or reduce risk? With limited human intervention, company stakeholders have to trust that AI-powered processes are fulfilling their designed responsibilities.

Trust! This fundamental principle struck a chord with Konfer’s founders, thus initiating the Konfer journey. How do you ensure that stakeholders – customers, product teams, legal, compliance, security and marketing – can trust the transformative AI-powered solutions that are now a critical and essential part of an organization’s business?

Konfer’s founders realized that Trust in AI can be achieved by ensuring Transparency, where all actions are understood identically by involved parties. Transparency creates Trust; Trust generates Confidence. And Trust is also the foundation for responsible and ethical AI. Confidence happens when stakeholders have complete understanding of the AI process. Konfer generates the knowledge graph needed for stakeholders to transparently map, measure and manage these digital initiatives.

Leadership Team

Debu Chatterjee

CEO, Founder

Head, AI and ML Product at ServiceNow
Founder CEO of DxContinuum – patented ML Engine acquired by ServiceNow in 2017 to offer AI
Enterprise product and engineering leadership at FICO, Informatica and Oracle
MBA Wharton, MS UNC Chapel Hill, BTech IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Baskar Jayaraman

CTO, Founder

Head, Data Science at ServiceNow
Founder and CTO Data Science at DxContinuum
Data Science and Optimization leadership at FICO, TrueDemand, Oracle, and Aspen Tech
Ph. D Univ of Washington, M.S IISc Bangalore

Arun Rajanala

VP Engineering

Head of Product and Engineering at AWS, Conga, Optymyze and CallidusCloud (acquired by SAP in 2017)
MS UNC Chapel Hill, BTech NIT Trichy

Investors

Anik Bose

General Partner at BGV

Anik is a General Partner at BGV and a board member of Drishti Labs, Webscale Networks, Constella Intelligence, Spyderbat and Blue Cedar. Anik focuses on investments in the areas of AI and Cybersecurity. He is also responsible for leading BGV’s Customer Advisory Board and founding EAIGG, a community platform of AI practitioners, entrepreneurs and technology investors dedicated to sharing practical insights and promoting the adoption of responsible AI governance in the industry.

Bhaskar Ghosh

Partner and CTO at 8VC

Bhaskar Ghosh (BG) is Partner and CTO at Silicon Valley venture capital firm 8VC, where he focuses on investing in early-phase start-ups building B2B SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and data-driven businesses, and helping incubate companies with tech-entrepreneurs. Some of BG’s representative early-phase investments in enterprise Infrastructure include (Yugabyte, Acryl Data, Tetrate, Nylas, Seaplane, Ponder etc) and in vertical SaaS automation include (Tilda, Formlogic, Ushur).

Prior to becoming an accidental venture capitalist, BG was a builder and engineering executive in Silicon Valley for 20+ years. As the founding Head of Data Infrastructure at LinkedIn, BG and his team built and ran the data platforms that helped enable LinkedIn’s meteoric growth from 50MM to 550MM+ members. Previously, BG ran engineering at Yahoo! RightMedia (the largest real-time display-ads exchange of its time), and learned about “big data” while writing parts of the Oracle and Informix RDBMS kernels. Most recently, BG ran engineering at NerdWallet, helping scale the company to a market leader in consumer finance marketplaces. BG has a PhD in Computer Science from Yale, a holder of 22 US patents and passionately involved in non-profits building social, education and cultural infrastructure in the American deep south and South Asia.

Ashmeet Sidana

Chief Engineer

Ashmeet is the Founder and Chief Engineer of Engineering Capital. Investing before traditional venture firms, Engineering Capital specializes in leading seed rounds in software companies with a technical insight. Ashmeet’s experience includes running venture capital funds and leadership positions helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Ashmeet came into venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product – ESX Server. His successful investments include Azure (IPO NYSE: AZRE) and SignalFx, recently acquired by Splunk for $1 billion, Tubi.tv (acq: FOX). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baffle, Concentric, Evinced, Nimbella and ShiftRight. His active investments include Kentik, Menlo Security, Nexla, Prismo Systems, Robust Intelligence, vFunction, and YotaScale – in all of which he was the seed investor.

Ashmeet received an MBA from Wharton with Honors, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BS in Computer Science summa cum laude from USC. In his spare-time he can be found planning his second trip to Mt. Everest.

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