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Sharath Keshava Narayana

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CEO & Co-Founder at Sanas
📍 Palo Alto, California, United States

Sharath Keshava Narayana is a serial entrepreneur and investor, currently serving as the CEO & Co-Founder of Sanas. AI. He also co-founded Observe. AI and is a General Partner at Carya Venture Partners, focusing on early-stage B2B deep tech startups. He earned a BTech from Visvesvaraya Technological University and is described by peers as a diligent, hard-working relationship builder.

Sharath is deeply passionate about entrepreneurship and business philosophy, frequently sharing his candid insights on startup growth, enterprise sales, and leadership. He emphasizes solving real-world problems and believes founder intensity is crucial for a companys success, often drawing from his extensive experience in scaling multiple AI-focused SaaS businesses from the ground up.

Interesting fact: His motivation for co-founding Sanas, which develops real-time accent translation, stems from his personal experience facing discrimination at a call center in 2003.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
CEO & Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
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AI in Communication
As CEO of Sanas, he is building the world's first real-time accent translation technology to remove communication barriers and reduce discrimination.
Enterprise Sales
He has closed over $50M in contracts and frequently writes about the practical realities of enterprise procurement, prioritizing uptime, security, and integration.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
CEO & Co-Founder
Sanas
10-2024 - 3-2025
Co-Founder & President
Sanas
5-2022
Founder & General Partner
Carya Venture Partners
1-2022 - 10-2024
Co-Founder & COO
Sanas
1-2020 - 4-2024
Angel Investor
Start up investments
In the press

Media appearances

Teleperformance forms strategic partnership with Real-Time Speech Understanding provider Sanas as part of its growth strategy to accelerate AI development and reinvent customer experience. Featured in PR Newswire
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Sanas Continues Product Momentum, Unveils First‑Ever AI‑Powered Simultaneous Translation Solution. Featured in National Law Review (Press Release)
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Education
2018 - 2018
Education details unavailable
Y Combinator
2002 - 2006
BTech
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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