Charu is Co-Founder and CEO at Fenrock AI (YC W26), building AI agents for financial crime compliance that process 10X volume per analyst for banks and regulated fintechs.

Charu holds an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and studied Economics and Physics at Mount Holyoke College. She previously worked in enterprise sales at LinkedIn and served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SignalFire, a $2B venture capital fund.

Charu has built 2 VC-backed companies and was named AI Entrepreneur of the Year by VentureBeat in 2019. She was recognized as a Top 10 Woman in Cloud by Sheryl Sandberg and enlisted as a Power Woman alongside Oprah Winfrey and Melinda Gates.

Charu founded NextPlay.ai, an AI-powered HR tech company serving Fortune 500 clients including Splunk, Logitech, Square, and Coca Cola for employee mentorship at scale. She is an active investor in multiple startups and serves on investment committees at Coyote Ventures and Neythri Futures Fund.

As a serial entrepreneur, Charu has delivered over 600 talks and panels globally, organized 3 TEDx conferences, and produced documentary films on Silicon Valley entrepreneurship. She has been featured in Forbes, Inc., CNET, and Huffington Post for her contributions to AI and diversity in tech.