Hang Ten Systems

Hang Ten Systems is an enterprise AI services company founded by Vishal Sikka, the former CEO of Infosys and CTO of SAP. The company helps large enterprises adopt AI to produce measurable results — building, changing, and running the software that runs their businesses at a fraction of the traditional cost and time. Named after the surfing maneuver of mastering a wave so completely that you can walk to the front of the board, Hang Ten works with some of the world's biggest companies including Fresenius and Siemens Energy. The company is backed by Mayfield (led by partner Navin Chaddha, a Stanford classmate of Sikka's), Aramco Ventures (the strategic investment arm of Saudi Aramco), and prominent Silicon Valley angels. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang serves on the board. The core founding team includes Navin Budhiraja, Sanjay Rajagopalan, Tao Liu, Frank Yu, Pradeep Panicker, and Yusuf Safdari.