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Sri Rao

Founder and Managing Partner

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MCHN Ventures

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About

Product-centric Investor, and builder focused on turning frontier technologies into real products. I work at the earliest stages—where machine intelligence, design, and strategy meet—to help teams build what’s next. With a unique blend of experience across venture capital, startups, corporate innovation, and academia, I focus on identifying, backing, and building early-stage opportunities powered by machine intelligence. I engage at the intersection of product and technology—shaping ideas into real products through technical diligence, product strategy, and go-to-market execution across spatial computing, computer vision, connectivity, logistics, and digital infrastructure.

Experience

Founder and Managing PartnerMCHN Ventures
Jun 2023
Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship and InnovationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Jul 2024
InvestorExtellis
Sep 2025
InvestorOpenInfer
Dec 2024
InvestorTieSet
Apr 2024
InvestorBESXAR
Feb 2024
InvestorRuby Robotics
Dec 2023
InvestorSirenOpt
Apr 2023
InvestorOpen Culture Science
Feb 2026
InvestorDream3D
Jan 2023
InvestorNuMind (YC S22)
Sep 2022
InvestorPolymath Robotics
Aug 2022
InvestorVolantis Semiconductor
May 2022
InvestorDoppel
Apr 2022
InvestorZerofy
Feb 2022
Venture PartnerUNION Labs
Jan 2022 to Jan 2025
Product ManagerMeta
Sep 2015 to Jan 2022
InvestorInokyo
Aug 2018 to Dec 2020
InvestorCelect, Inc.
Nov 2013 to Aug 2019
InvestorCruise
Jun 2013 to May 2016
Sr. Director of Product InnovationSmartThings
Nov 2014 to Sep 2015
Founding Entrepreneur In Residence, Sr. Director of ProductSamsung Next
Jul 2013 to Sep 2015
InvestorDaylife
Sep 2007 to Oct 2012
Co-Founder, Pres. Digital Media, Board MemberRealTalk Media Group Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2006 to Jan 2008
Co-Founder, CTO, Board MemberInterra Project Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2003 to Jan 2006
Product ManagerAmazon
Jan 1999 to Jan 2001

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship MBA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, MBA, Collective Intelligence
University of Maryland
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland