Nivedan Rathi is the founder of Future & AI, where he helps CEOs build AI-ready businesses. He also makes educational AI videos, that have reached 750,000 followers with over 250 million views.
An IIT Bombay alumnus, he co-founded several tech startups, including a VC-funded AI company, and now invests in early-stage ventures. He has spoken on 80+ stages in India & abroad, including TEDx, and advised some of India's top CEOs on AI strategy, including Mr. Kishore Biyani and Mr. Nikhil Kamath.
All social links: https://linktr.ee/nivedanrathi
Nivedan Rathi is the founder of Future & AI, where he helps CEOs build AI-ready businesses. He has trained CXOs at Adani and CoinDCX, and advised the board of a US-listed company on global AI strategy.
He was the first core team member and AI Advisor at India’s premier startup launchpad, Foundery, working with Mr. Kishore Biyani, Mr. Nikhil Kamath and Mr. Ronnie Screwvala. He also serves as AI ambassador for India's first AI university in Lucknow.
A TEDx speaker with nearly 80 stages across India and abroad, he's a leading voice in AI in India and has scaled AI-automated video content to 750,000 followers & 250 million views in 2.5 years.
An IIT Bombay graduate, he previously co-founded an Agri AI startup back in 2017, and has invested in multiple early stage tech startups.
He believes AI is both humanity’s greatest gift and its toughest test; those who don’t step up now as individuals, as businesses, as nations, will find the pace of change impossible to catch later.
Nivedan Rathi is the founder of Future & AI where he helps CEOs turn their companies into true AI-native businesses.
He has trained the CXOs at Adani HQ as well as India’s leading crypto exchange, CoinDCX. He has consulted the board of PAR, a US-listed giant, on their global AI strategy.
He’s also a sought-after AI speaker, speaking at nearly 80 prominent stages & leadership conferences in India & abroad, his favourite one still being the stage of TEDx.
He was the first core team member & AI Advisor at Foundery, the famous 90 day residential startup launchpad, working closely with industry stalwarts Mr. Kishore Biyani, Mr. Nikhil Kamath & Mr. Ronnie Screwvala. He designed the overall program in its early days first, then developed the AI playbook for building & scaling D2C consumer brands, and an advanced AI hiring engine that screened 40,000 applicants at 5% the cost of a human panel.
He is also one of the first people in the world to launch & scale AI-automated video content to half a million followers on Instagram & 750,000 across channels combined, amassing a total of 250 million views. All of this in just 2.5 years.
Recently, he was appointed as the AI ambassador by honourable MP Mr. Satnam Singh Sandhu, the Chancellor of Chandigarh University to help take their Lucknow campus to a global stage as India's very first AI university.
An IIT Bombay graduate, previously, he co-founded a VC funded AI Startup in Agritech in 2017-18, and later led the business & marketing teams at Meesho during it’s hyper-growth phase.
He believes AI is both humanity’s greatest gift and its toughest test; those who don’t step up now as individuals, as businesses, as nations, will find the pace of change impossible to catch later.