Episode #65: Rajesh Perianayagam - Karyosoft Inc

Rajesh Perianayagam was born, raised and completed all his education till Ph.D. in plant biotechnology in India. He first came to the US in 1999 as a visiting research scholar during his Ph.D. to Washington State University, Pullman, WA. After obtaining doctorate degree at National Chemical Laboratory and University of Pune, India, he continued working at WSU and University of Missouri- Columbia as a postdoctoral research fellow. He moved to Indianapolis to work at large corporates such as Dow AgroSciences where he gained experience in managing multi-million-dollar agrigenomics programs and later at Roche Diagnostics where he worked with multi-billion-dollar clients. His extensive learnings and experiences in discovery and commercialization of products working in academia and industries led him to founding Karyosoft.

Currently he is the Founder/CEO of the startup Karyosoft Inc. headquartered in Carmel, Indiana. Karyosoft focuses on building in-house genomics software solutions for scientists to improve R&D efficiency and accelerate innovations in agrigenomics and life sciences enterprises. Karyosoft has received 20+ regional, national and international recognitions such as 2022 Best of Carmel Award in the Software Company category and “30 startups to watch” list by World Agri-Tech community.

During his more than 2 decades of experience in both at industries and academia as a molecular geneticist and a business development professional, Rajesh Perianayagam published 3 patents, won highest Seeds R&D recognition award for 4 consecutive years, worked on 6 different crops, recognized as an innovator for consecutively 7 years, captured 10+ intellectual property (IP), published 25+ peer reviewed publications and given 50+ presentations at both national and international conferences/meetings.

He is a passion-driven entrepreneur transforming his 25+ years of ‘R&D to Revenue’ experience into solving problems in agrigenomics and life sciences. He fondly calls his approximate 10,600 miles career journey as “India to Indiana”.