Prateek Joshi
Investor at Moxxie Ventures; Former Founder of Pluto AI / Plutoshift
San Francisco, CA
Early-stage founder applying ML to water-treatment plant operations, a category most incumbents still treat as a SCADA-data backwater.
Background
Founder and CEO of Pluto AI, a venture-backed AI platform for water-treatment plants. Previously at Qualcomm and NVIDIA. Pluto AI raised $2.1M from Fall Line Capital, Refactor Capital, Unshackled Ventures, and Comet Labs to apply machine learning to water-treatment plant operations. Founded Pluto AI (later Plutoshift) in 2017 to bring ML to water-treatment plant operations; raised $16M+ and exited. Now an investor at Moxxie Ventures.
Notable deals
- 2017
- 2018
Call-prep brief
Background
Prateek brings a non-water engineering background (Qualcomm, NVIDIA) to water-treatment AI. Pluto AI is earlier stage than Aquasight or FATHOM, which makes him interesting as both a thesis-validator and a potential growth-stage target.
What he cares about
- Treatment-plant operations specifically, not metering or billing.
- Bridging engineering rigor from chip design into utility operations.
- Imagine H2O alumni network as a deal-flow channel.
Sensitivities
- Earlier stage; expect a founder-CEO with a full plate. Be respectful of time.
- Pluto AI's recent public profile is quieter than peers; some traction details are non-public.
Questions to ask
- Where is Pluto AI's customer concentration today, and what's the next product expansion?
- How does he see water-treatment AI competing with broader Aquasight-style lifecycle plays?
- What's the right capital-stage match for Pluto AI's next 18 months?
Outreach draft
Linked companies
Sources
- Name + firmPresstechcrunch.com/2017/04/04/pluto-ai-raises-2-1-million-to-bring-intelligence-to-water-treatment
- Page titleOtherimagineh2o.org/founder-profile-prateek-joshi-founder-ceo-pluto-ai