About Krishna
Bio
Krishna Bharat is an angel investor and advisor to technology startups and journalism non profits. His current passion is to improve the news ecosystem, save journalism and protect democracy.
Krishna is a founding advisor at Grokstyle Inc and Laserlike Inc. He is also on the board of Columbia Journalism, Stanford JSK Fellowships and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Krishna was formerly Distinguished Scientist at Google. He is the founder of Google News, an automated news service aggregating more than 100,000 sources, with 72 editions in over 30 languages. Google News won the 2003 Webby Award in the news category, and Bharat received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism.
In 2004 Krishna founded Google’s R&D operations in India and served as the center’s first director until 2006.
Before joining Google in 1999, Krishna was a member of the research staff at DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.