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Ananth Nagaraj

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Founder at Gnani

Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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About

Ananth Nagaraj is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gnani AI, a voice AI company that builds infrastructure spanning PBX systems, foundational models, and agentic orchestrators. The company's models, including Gnani Prisma v2.5, Gnani Warp v2.0, and Gnani Evon 14B v3.2, are trained on over 14 million hours of telephony audio and support multilingual applications at scale. Nagaraj holds more than 20 patents in voice, NLP, and intelligent orchestration.

Founder at Gnani

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Gnani's investors · 2

Aavishkaar Venture Management Services Private LimitedMumbai · $5M – $25M checksInfo Edge VenturesGurgaon · $685K – $31M checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Gnani

GGGanesh Gopalan
Ganesh GopalanFounder

Experience

  1. gnani.aiCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2016 — presentBengaluru Area, India
  2. armour365 - Voice BiometricsCo-Founder & CTO at Voicebiometrics.aicurrent2020 — present
  3. Texas InstrumentsApplications Engineer2012 — 2016Bangalore
  4. 300 Feet Eco SolutionsCo Founder2012 — 2015
  5. Aricent GroupSenior Software Engineer2010 — 2012Bangalore
  6. Kyocera Wireless IndiaSoftware Engineer2008 — 2010

Skills & more

Speech Recognition44NLP36Algorithms29Signal Processing14Wireless Networking12Wireless6Software Development6DSP5ARM4Systems Engineering4System Architecture3Integration3
+12 moreSoftware EngineeringTelecommunicationsWiFiProduct InnovationProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementMachine LearningBusiness StrategyTeam ManagementRTOSEmbedded SystemsMatlab

Languages English

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ananth Nagaraj?
Ananth Nagaraj is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gnani AI, a voice AI company that builds infrastructure spanning PBX systems, foundational models, and agentic orchestrators. The company's models, including Gnani Prisma v2.5, Gnani Warp v2.0, and Gnani Evon 14B v3.2, are trained on over 14 million hours of telephony audio and support multilingual applications at scale. Nagaraj holds more than 20 patents in voice, NLP, and intelligent orchestration.
Where does Ananth Nagaraj work?
Ananth Nagaraj is Founder of Gnani.
What companies did Ananth Nagaraj found?
Ananth Nagaraj founded Gnani.
Where did Ananth Nagaraj go to school?
Ananth Nagaraj studied at Visvesvaraya Technological University (BE, Electronics and Communications); Kumarans.

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