Sawruv (a.k.a Dr. Saurav Agarwal) is an entrepreneur, internationally-recognized robotics expert, author, and startup adviser.

Saurav is currently the Founder of SIERA.AI. He was the founding CEO of the company from 2017-2022 and recently moved into the CTO role full-time. He started SIERA.AI in 2017 right after a Ph.D. in robotics. Since then, he has raised more than $6.5M of venture capital (without any prior network), built a team of 30+ people across 2 continents, launched 2 unique Robotics and AI product lines (with complex hardware), built a go-to-market program, and onboarded over 60 enterprise customers (several of them in the Fortune 500). Saurav is passionate about helping other Hard Tech Founder CEOs build and scale incredible companies.