Co-founder · Product & GTM
Chaitanya Jonnalagadda
A decade shipping AI and SaaS products at national scale across India.
ISB · BITS Pilani
Praana Labs
About us.
Write to us at info@praanalabs.com.
Why now
The first great dataset was written. The next one has to be performed.
Both bars drawn to the same scale.
EgoScale, 2026 · Bessemer Venture Partners, Robotics & Physical AI, 2026.
01
Demand inflected.
Labs stopped waiting for data and started paying collectors directly.
02
Phones became instruments.
Consumer pose tracking crossed into the band capture needs.
03
Synthetic flooded the web.
Once anything can be generated, proof becomes the product.
Team
Who is building it.
Co-founder · Technology
Vivek Dhara
Robotics and machine-learning research at Harvard Medical School and CMU.
IIT Bombay · CMU · ex-UMIC Robotics Lab
Co-founder · Strategy & Ops
Jayanth Parchuri
Industrial strategy and capital-intensive operations at scale; large-scale venture building.
ISB · NIT Trichy · ex-BCG
Technical advisor
Dr. Krishna Kishore Dhara
PhD in Computer Science. Thirty-five years from Bell Labs and Avaya Labs research to CTO roles.
Bell Labs · Avaya Labs · 35+ patents
Contact
Get in touch.
Labs, OEMs & platforms
Tell us what your models still can’t do.
Name the gap. We come back with the route, the grade and the evidence.
The supply side
Sitting on capture, or a way to make it?
An audience, a fleet, a workplace, an archive of footage. If real-world data moves through it, it can earn.
Or just write.
A sentence about what you are short of is enough to start.
Hyderabad, India.
We answer within two working days.