Trained as a computer scientist, S M Raju has done pioneering work in the field of large-scale servers and video search technologies. He was one of the founders of Knumi in the US whose technology got acquired by Houghton Mifflin as part of Vivendi. He is the founder of MindZen, a provider of state of the art technology solutions for insurance broking houses in India. Mindzen is one of the first companies in India to provide a robust application suite (mZapp) based on open-source technologies for the insurance vertical. He is one of the founders of Haiku Media which creates and distributes entertainment and educational content in English and other vernacular languages in India. He is also working on online strategies to bring this kind of content to the Indian market. He is very interested in creating educational content that can be delivered online over cutting-edge platforms.