Behind the Work

Venky serves as a strategic advisor to startups and enterprise leaders navigating the intersection of technology, business value, and AI. A former CRO and ex-ServiceNow GTM leader, he brings 20+ years of experience across enterprise software, intelligent infrastructure (LiDAR, 3D perception), and systems integration. He has led large value-driven initiatives and tech investment justifications with Fortune 500 technology providers and C-suite buyers. His experience spans a wide range of industry segments such as media, CPG, oil & gas, utilities, smart cities, industrial manufacturing, and ISVs. He advises cutting-edge AI and intelligent infrastructure startups building toward the autonomous future.

Venky is the co-author of AI-Driven Value Management (Wiley Publishers), and works closely with founders, boards, and GTM teams to build AI-powered solutions, clarify value, and accelerate outcomes.

Venky Lakshminarayanan

Rajesh Ilango serves as a strategic AI advisor to Nth Domain, bringing a rare blend of deep AI innovation to enterprise as well as scientific research . He’s worked across compute, storage, and networking systems, led AI-driven drug discovery initiatives at NVIDIA (Clara, BioNeMo), and remains active in emerging AI agent design. Rajesh advises Nth Domain on how to ground AI strategy in real-world business impact—especially for enterprise software and next-gen infrastructure.

He provides coaching and mentorship to business leaders (including Venky) to think creatively and build confidently with AI.

Rajesh Ilango

Author: AI-Driven Value Management Book

Venky co-authored AI-Driven Value Management (Wiley, 2024), a practical guide to using AI to simplify and scale how companies articulate and deliver business value.

The book features insights from CxOs and leaders at IBM, Salesforce, Gainsight, Pure Storage, Ridge Ventures and more.

Drop me a note to learn how to get a free copy of the book!

Investors & Advisors to Next-Gen Tech

Nth Domain serves as a trusted advisor and early-stage investor to innovative startups building the next generation of enterprise and infrastructure technologies.

We’re proud to advise, invest and back intelligent infrastructure startups CronAI, Surge Networks and BlueBand, product serialization and authentication platform Rainfall and AI performance marketing agency BlueCaffeine.

Blue Band provides a cutting-edge AI, Analytics and Middleware platform for DoTs / cities around the world supporting their Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart City initiatives

Surge is a next-gen tech company building public-private right-of-way infrastructure to power autonomy, real-time analytics, and tomorrow's intelligent infrastructure

Blue Band

CronAI's industry-best Edge AI 3D perception provides unparalleled object detection accuracy and rich metadata for Smart City and ITS applications, and 3D data-as-a-service for businesses

Whether it is a consumer product or an IT asset, Rainfall's disruptive QR / NFC technology serializes every item, enabling fine-grain tracking, authentication and hyper-personalized brand building.

BlueCaffeine is a data-driven performance marketing agency specializing in AI to power digital brand strategy and growth through SEO, paid search, social media ads and analytics

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