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Nickhil Jakatdar

Board Member - GenePathDxIndividual

Biography

Nickhil is the founder and CEO of Vuclip, a video entertainment service (operating under the brand name Viu) with more than 20M active users consuming more than 1 billion hours of content, including Viu Originals (our own produced shows), across India, South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa. Nickhil has helped raised more than $300M in capital from top-tier investors, including NEA, Singtel, Temasek, Foxconn, and PCCW. Before that, Nickhil was COO and Board Member of Praesagus, where he worked closely with the founding team to commercialize their Ph.D. thesis at MIT into a product that is in use across the top chip design and manufacturing companies and eventually sold it to Cadence Design Systems. Prior to that, Nickhil co-founded Timbre Technologies based on his Ph.D. thesis and helped make it into an industry standard that is, 20 year later, the algorithm of choice for state of the art semiconductor manufacturing companies. Nickhil is the co-author of more than 60 patents, an IEEE award, more than 20 conference and journal publications and multiple awards for entrepreneurship. He has helped steer more than 20 companies as an investor, Advisory Board or Board Member. He interests include soccer, magic, and poker. He currently is a Board Member at GenePath Dx.

Regional Focus

Central and Southern Asia