Behind the success of any start-up, there are innovators who are away from all the limelight until their technological products become a hit in terms of monetary valuation. Anant Bhardwaj, the CEO and Founder of Instabase has worked hard to reach where he is. He has contributed to both the technology field and that of academia. You must have heard his name for founding Instabase, but he has also gradually scaled the academic ladder, causing a stir in the San Francisco tech hub. You read that right. In this article, we’ll get to know him better. Take a look:
His early life, career, and education
Anant Bhardwaj is an Indian computer scientist, software engineer, and Internet entrepreneur. He founded Instabase in 2015 and currently serves as its CEO.
Born and raised in India, he completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune. He then moved to the United States in 2010 to attend Stanford University where he earned a Masters in Computer Science. In 2012, he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue a Ph.D. where he was co-advised by Sam Madden and David Karger. He dropped out of the Ph.D. program in 2015 to start Instabase, where he serves as the CEO.
Anant was also a Research Assistant at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from September 2012 to August 2015, working on Haystack and the Database Groups.
Companies net worth
Instabase, a leader in Applied AI for the enterprise, today announced its Series C funding round and the launch of AI Hub, a repository of AI apps focused on content understanding and a set of generative AI-based tools. The $45 million Series C funding round, which concluded at the end of 2022, doubled Instabase’s valuation to $2 billion, was led by tribe capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Greylock Partners, Spark Capital, K5 Global, and Standard Chartered Ventures.
