Dinakar MunagalaCo Founder

United States - El Dorado Hills, California

I have over 23 years of experience in successfully building and leading global teams developing game-changing products rooted in silicon and software architectural innovations, with recognition for technical excellence, new initiatives, and results focus.

As Co-founder and CEO, I guide the Blaize global team to focus on creating a more energy-efficient computing architecture that meets the needs of a new generation of AI computing workloads. This approach facilitates delivering a transformational AI compute solution that unites silicon and software, revolutionizing AI for practical application across many markets and use cases. The Blaize vision includes the democratization of AI via a combination of our novel processor architecture and easy-to-use software, empowering people and nations to tap the value of AI. Through innovative advances in energy efficiency, flexibility, and usability, Blaize enables developers to establish new classes of products bringing the benefits of AI and machine learning to a broad range of use cases - a fundamental change to computing the intense workloads of the future.

Under my leadership, Blaize attracted marquee investors to back our founding team's vision to develop and deliver a new generation of AI hardware and software products. Blaize has secured US$155M in equity funding from strategic and venture investors Franklin Templeton, Temasek, DENSO, Daimler, SPARX Group, Magna, Samsung Catalyst Fund, GGV Capital, Wavemaker, and SGInnovate.

I have been actively engaged in community service initiatives, holding a leadership role in fundraising for CRY (Child Relief and You)/Vibha (Sacramento Action Center) for the past ten years. CRY / Vibha is a non-profit organization that supports educational projects for underprivileged children. I am also an active supporter of Kiva & Vittana initiatives, empowering students and entrepreneurs globally to achieve their goals via non-profit micro-finance loans.