Art Venture Fund

Raghu Dharmaraju is the Chief Executive Officer of ARTPARK @ IISc. He leads strategy, operations, and fund activities at ARTPARK. He was previously at the World Economic Forum and has extensive experience in deep tech and AI ecosystems globally. He oversees ARTPARK's investment activities through the Art Venture Fund.

Prof. Bharadwaj Amrutur is the Executive Director, Chief Technologist, and co-founder of ARTPARK. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at IISc, Bangalore, and was the founding head of the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems at IISc. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and his research spans low-power and high-speed chip design, smart sensors, and connected health platforms. He co-founded ARTPARK in 2020.

Umakant Soni is a co-founder of ARTPARK and the architect of its initial fund strategy, publicly announcing the $100M Art Venture Fund in 2021–22 and leading early fundraising. He is also a co-founder of AI Foundry and pi Ventures, and a technology advisor to NITI Aayog and DST. An IIT Kanpur graduate, he is also a member of the Government of India's 6G task force. He has since transitioned out of the day-to-day CEO role.

Uthappa P B is the SEBI-registered contact person for the Art Venture Fund at ARTPARK. He handles regulatory and operational matters for the AIF. He is based at ARTPARK's HSR Layout office (IndiQube Orion, Bangalore). No additional public biographical information is available.