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Vijay Krishnan

Unicorn founder

Founder at Turing · Founder at Turing Enterprises

Palo Alto, California, United States

FoundedTuring$2.2BTuring Enterprises

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About

Vijay Krishnan is the Founder and CTO of Turing.com, a company founded in 2018 that provides expert human data services to foundation model companies and AI solutions to enterprises, and which reached unicorn status in 2021. He previously founded and served as CTO of Rover, which was acquired by Revcontent, where he then held the role of SVP of Data Science. His background includes 20 years of work applying machine learning to problems such as text categorization, personalized search, content recommendations, and ad targeting, along with authored papers in machine learning and related fields; he studied computer science at IIT Bombay and Stanford University.

Founder at Turing Enterprises

Co-founders at Turing Enterprises

JSJonathan Siddharth
Jonathan SiddharthExecutive Officer, Director
SJ
Siddharth Jonathan Jeyapandian BalasekarExecutive Officer, Director

Founder at Turing

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AltaIR CapitalHerzliyaAmino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M checksAngel Collective Opportunity FundSan FranciscoAVVHo Chi Minh City · $250K – $2M checksBrainstorm VenturesSan FranciscoCapitalXLynnwood · $250K checksChapter OneLos Angeles · $5K – $200K checksFlucas VenturesJupiter · $100K – $5M checksFoundation CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $15M checks · since 2020Frontier VenturesCupertino · $100K – $5M checksK20 FundValley Stream · $100K – $2.5M checksLombardstreet VenturesWoodside · $500K checksMenlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checksMindset VentureSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checksMVP VenturesChicagoPeak State VenturesNew York · $100K – $15M checksPlug and Play VenturesSunnyvale · $50K – $12M checksPROOFArlingtonVerb VenturesLuxembourg · $550K – $1.6M checksVisary CapitalSyosset

Co-founders at Turing

JSJonathan Siddharth
Jonathan SiddharthFounder

Experience

  1. TuringFounder & CTOcurrent2018 — presentPalo Alto
  2. Foundation CapitalEntrepreneur In Residence2017 — 2018Menlo Park, CA
  3. RevcontentSenior Vice President of Data Science2017Sunnyvale, California
  4. Rover (Acquired by Revcontent)Founder and CTO2008 — 2016Sunnyvale, CA
  5. FliporaFounder & CTO2012 — 2014
  6. InfoaxeFounder & Co-CEO2008 — 2011
  7. Yahoo! Inc.Machine Learning Scientist2007 — 2008

Skills & more

C#5Python13C++6Perl5Linux4JavaScript5Algorithms56Software Project Management18Machine LearningData Mining53Software Development6Scalability16
+8 moreComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsShell ScriptingSoftware EngineeringSoftware DesignMobile ApplicationsBig DataSearch

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Who is Vijay Krishnan?
Vijay Krishnan is the Founder and CTO of Turing.com, a company founded in 2018 that provides expert human data services to foundation model companies and AI solutions to enterprises, and which reached unicorn status in 2021. He previously founded and served as CTO of Rover, which was acquired by Revcontent, where he then held the role of SVP of Data Science. His background includes 20 years of work applying machine learning to problems such as text categorization, personalized search, content recommendations, and ad targeting, along with authored papers in machine learning and related fields; he studied computer science at IIT Bombay and Stanford University.
Where does Vijay Krishnan work?
Vijay Krishnan is Founder of Turing and Co-founder at Turing Enterprises.
What companies did Vijay Krishnan found?
Vijay Krishnan founded Turing, Turing Enterprises.
Where did Vijay Krishnan go to school?
Vijay Krishnan studied at Stanford University (Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science); Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (M.Tech, Computer Science); Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (B.Tech, Computer Science).

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Ashu GargInvestor at Foundation CapitalDmitry AlimovFounding Partner at Frontier VenturesSue XuManaging Partner at Amino CapitalFaizan J. KhanFounder and CIO at Visary CapitalRobin BordoliAdvisor at AUTHENTIC VENTURESBill MacCartneyAI Fund Fellow at AI Fund

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