Prasanna Prasad, Chief Product and Technology Officer, VerSe Innovation
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 10: VerSe Innovation, India’s main AI-powered native language expertise platform and guardian entity of Dailyhunt, Josh, NexVerse.ai, Magzter and Oneindia, as we speak introduced the appointment of Prasanna Prasad as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). In this position, Prasanna will lead the corporate’s engineering, product and knowledge science capabilities, with a concentrate on advancing AI-led innovation throughout VerSe’s household of apps and platforms.
Prasanna brings over 20 years of expertise throughout product engineering, knowledge science and large-scale platform growth. He has led world groups throughout the U.S., India and Europe, and has in depth experience in constructing high-scale, real-time programs, cloud-native infrastructures, and AI-driven merchandise. Most just lately, he served as Chief Technology Officer & Head of Product and AI at Verve Group Inc., the place he led a 200+ member world group and drove AI-led progress, delivering vital enterprise affect by platform automations, superior knowledge science modeling and constructing privacy-first promoting programs.
At VerSe Innovation, Prasanna will concentrate on strengthening the corporate’s AI capabilities throughout content material creator ecosystems and digital promoting. His mandate is centred on constructing a coherent intelligence layer throughout VerSe’s platforms — advancing personalisation and content material relevance on the person layer, strengthening creator ecosystems for top of the range content material manufacturing, and driving next-generation promoting expertise and monetisation effectivity by agentic AI programs and automation.
His appointment marks a pivotal second as VerSe scales its AI-led product portfolio – constructing clever programs that ship tangible outcomes for manufacturers and advertisers, whereas strengthening person & creator engagement.
Umang Bedi, Co-Founder, VerSe Innovation, stated: “AI is becoming central to how digital platforms are built, scaled and monetized. At VerSe, we see this as a structural shift that will define the next phase of growth across content, creators and advertising. Prasanna brings deep experience across engineering, data science and AI-led platform transformation, along with a strong track record of building high-scale, privacy- first systems. As we continue to sharpen our focus on AI across our products and ad tech stack, his leadership will be important in strengthening our technology foundations and driving more efficient, intelligent outcomes across the ecosystem.”
Prasanna Prasad, Chief Product and Technology Officer, VerSe Innovation, stated: “As platforms scale, the role of technology shifts from enablement to differentiation. The focus then moves to how consistently systems can translate intelligence into real outcomes, whether in user experience, content relevance or monetization efficiency. At VerSe, the emphasis will be on driving greater precision and coherence across systems so that performance becomes more predictable and scalable over time. I’m excited to join at this point and contribute to shaping the next phase of the company’s growth.”
About VerSe Innovation Private Limited
At the core of VerSe Innovation, is the concept that expertise might help bridge the digital divide. Since its inception, VerSe has risen to the problem of serving the unmet content material wants of hundreds of thousands of customers utilizing expertise. Its distinctive synthetic intelligence, machine studying and deep studying applied sciences allows personalised content material to be delivered to hundreds of thousands of customers based mostly on their consumption preferences.
Today VerSe Innovation’s proprietary expertise platform powers hundreds of thousands of customers to devour content material of their native language on Dailyhunt. Its expertise additionally powers India’s #1 and most partaking creators app, Josh. In addition, VerSe has an built-in portfolio of AI-first merchandise and platforms, together with NexVerse.ai, Dailyhunt Premium, Josh’s Audio Calling & Audio Stories and VerSe Collab, which collectively are reshaping how customers, content material, and manufacturers work together in India’s digital economic system.
VerSe Innovation, with its household of apps targeted on Bharat, turned the primary unicorn in tech for native languages and counts CPP Investments, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP), Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Siguler Guff, Carlyle Group, Baillie Gifford, Goldman Sachs, Gladebrooks, Falcon Edge Capital, AlphaWave, Sequoia Capital India, Matrix Partners India, Google, Microsoft, Lupa Systems, Luxor Group, Sofina, B Capital Group, IIFL, Kotak, Catamaran, Bay Capital, Edelweiss and Omidyar Network, amongst others as present traders.
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