Sriya Maram

Sriya Maram is the cofounder and CEO of Persana AI, an artificial intelligence sales intelligence platform based in San Francisco, United States. Before establishing the software enterprise in 2023 alongside former colleague Rush Shahani, she served as a Product Manager at LinkedIn, where she focused on developing scalable customer data platforms and generative AI tools. Under her leadership, Persana AI has scaled to support over 15,000 GTM professionals by utilizing more than 100 data sources trained on 700 million contacts and 200 million companies. In October 2024, the startup secured between $2 million and $3 million in funding from notable institutional and angel investors, including Y Combinator, Race Capital, Stage 2 Capital, and Dharmesh Shah. Maram currently focuses on advancing GTM automation and complex data integration to optimize revenue team prospecting and sustainable business growth.