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About
Balu Masti is a technology strategist and ecosystem builder with over three decades of experience across the United States, Silicon Valley, and India, currently serving as India Ambassador and Advisor at UC Berkeley SkyDeck and Director of International Collaborations at RV University, Bangalore. He advises accelerators including CMU's Schwartz Center, AI @ Wharton, and Rutgers–Camden, and through HUM Consulting Services provides fractional CTO and advisory support to DeepTech ventures in areas such as AI/ML, data platforms, IoT, embedded systems, and SaaS. His earlier career included nearly two decades at Qualcomm and Intel and the co-founding of a DeepTech startup focused on energy optimization; he is also a Carnatic Veena artist and certified yoga teacher.
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- Who is Balu Masti?
- Balu Masti is a technology strategist and ecosystem builder with over three decades of experience across the United States, Silicon Valley, and India, currently serving as India Ambassador and Advisor at UC Berkeley SkyDeck and Director of International Collaborations at RV University, Bangalore. He advises accelerators including CMU's Schwartz Center, AI @ Wharton, and Rutgers–Camden, and through HUM Consulting Services provides fractional CTO and advisory support to DeepTech ventures in areas such as AI/ML, data platforms, IoT, embedded systems, and SaaS. His earlier career included nearly two decades at Qualcomm and Intel and the co-founding of a DeepTech startup focused on energy optimization; he is also a Carnatic Veena artist and certified yoga teacher.
- Where does Balu Masti work?
- Balu Masti is Ambassador, India at UC Berkeley Skydeck.
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