Rishikesh Raj

I’m Rishikesh Raj, COO at AIVI Intelligence.

Before jumping into early-stage deep-tech, I cut my teeth in management consulting at EY, helping organizations figure out operational strategy, institutional workflows, and enterprise scale.

Consulting gave me a deep respect for governance, unit economics, and how complex organizations buy software. But I’ve always been an operator at heart. I wanted to build from the ground up rather than advise from the sidelines.

At AIVI, my job is simple: take our proprietary sovereign AI technology (backed by NVIDIA and Zoho) and build repeatable, high-margin distribution channels around it. Right now, that means getting AIVI Campus OS into universities so small-town students can practice job interviews in their own language while deans get their NAAC audits automated for ₹83 a year, and scaling Hack My Website so fast-moving developers fix code vulnerabilities before shipping.

What I actually care about isn't vanity valuation metrics or AI buzzwords. I care about capital discipline, solving the messy operational problems in Indian higher-ed and software development, and proving that deep-tech built out of India can be globally competitive and fundamentally profitable.

We build practical AI software for India that solves real-world problems—from training small-town college students for job interviews in their own language, to auto-fixing website bugs before hackers find them.