265: From a Small Town in Assam to India's First AI IPO Srikanth Velamakanni, Fractal

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Oct 1, 202640:22Business

Srikanth Velamakanni built an AI company before most people knew the A in AI. In 2000, long before ChatGPT, he and five co-founders started Fractal Analytics with a simple bet: that math could predict human behaviour and...

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