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The Readiness Assessment

A 5-day engagement that maps your data, surfaces high-ROI AI candidates, and recommends a pilot — fixed price.

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Tier-1 bank cuts reconciliation 92%

Agentic reconciliation across 14 source systems — six-week pilot, full rollout in one quarter.

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Private AI on dedicated GPUs

Frontier-class models on isolated infrastructure — your data never leaves the perimeter.

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Field notes: agentic eval at production scale

How we ship and operate eval harnesses for systems running ten-million-plus actions a month.

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Founder
Rohit Wakode — Founder & Director

B.Tech IIT Bombay · LLB GLC Mumbai. Building intelligent enterprise systems in India since 2014.

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About · Deneural Ventures Private Limited

India first AI venture studio by IIT-IIM entrepreneurs.

Deneural is an AI-native venture studio aimed at solving challenges in industries where AI and technology in general have not been integrated effectively. We have paved the way for four tech-unicorns in India — with an in-house team of designers, developers and marketeers. Our collective work has brought in approximately $500M+ in follow-on investments.

Unicorns formed
4
In portfolio
Follow-on capital
$500M+
Into portfolio
Disciplines
12
Diverse but capable
Active since
2014
Pre-AI hype cycle
01 — Principles

How we build, in ten principles.

/ 01

Ship to production, always.

Every engagement ends with a working system. Demos are not a deliverable.

/ 02

Evaluation before deployment.

No model reaches a user without a measurable harness. Quality is a number.

/ 03

Senior-only engineering.

Every engineer has shipped at scale. We do not learn on customer money.

/ 04

Boring tools, battle-tested.

We pick the simplest thing that works. Novelty is justified, not assumed.

/ 05

Own your perimeter.

Models, data, and compute live where you can audit them. Sovereignty is non-negotiable.

/ 06

Fixed-price pilots.

If we cannot scope it, we do not sell it. Surprises are an engineering failure.

/ 07

Operate what we build.

The team that ships the system is the team that runs it for the first quarter.

/ 08

Hand it over.

Knowledge transfer is contractual. Your team owns the system when we sign off.

/ 09

Say no.

If AI is not the right answer, we tell you so directly.

/ 10

Security is day one.

Threat model before architecture. mTLS before merge. SOC 2 posture before launch.

02 — Timeline

Twelve years in deep tech.

From a single founder at IIT Bombay to a venture studio with four unicorns. Built deliberately. Never raised institutional capital.

2014

Pivot to neural networks

Founder Rohit Wakode shifted focus to neural networks — discreet ventures contributing to multinational organisations well before the public hype cycle.

2019

Deneural Ventures founded

India first venture studio by IIT-IIM entrepreneurs — built to solve challenges where AI had not yet been effectively integrated.

2021

First unicorn formed

Portfolio company crosses billion-dollar valuation. ERP and operations practice grows.

2023

Four unicorns · $500M follow-on

Four portfolio companies have crossed unicorn status; combined follow-on capital surpasses $500M.

2024

Managed AI infrastructure

Launched dedicated GPU hosting after customers asked us to operate, not just hand over, the systems we deployed.

2025

Frontier expansion

Active R&D in construction, plant automation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, SpaceTech, and hybrid education.

Today

HQ Thane West · India

301-306, Zenia Building, Hiranandani Business Park. Open to strategic partnerships.

03 — Leadership

The people accountable.

RW
Rohit Wakode
Founder · Managing Director

B.Tech IIT Bombay · LLB GLC Mumbai. Founder of India's first AI-native venture studio.

PR
Priya Raghavan
Chief Technology Officer

Previously ML platform lead at a quantitative trading firm. Owns evaluation harnesses and production AI.

DM
Devansh Mehta
Head of AI Engineering

Previously agentic systems group at a frontier lab. Owns our agent and copilot practice.

SC
Sara Chen
Head of Infrastructure

Previously SRE leadership at a top-10 cloud platform. Runs managed GPU and SRE.

Work with engineers, not consultants.