Who is Praveen Rangnath?
Praveen Rangnath is the CMO of Deepgram. Deepgram makes speech-to-text and voice AI models that developers build voice agents and transcription on.
About Praveen Rangnath
Before Deepgram he was CMO at Imply, and before that he led product marketing at Confluent and cloud marketing at Splunk.
About Deepgram
Deepgram makes speech-to-text and voice AI models that developers build voice agents and transcription on. It raised a $130M Series C led by AVP in January 2026 at a $1.3B valuation. The company was already cash-flow positive when it raised, and its CEO said they weren't out looking for money.
Why Praveen is on the cover
Deepgram didn't need the money, which is a rare position at Series C. Praveen brings a CMO résumé from Confluent and Splunk to a company selling to the developers building voice AI.
Questions about Praveen and Deepgram
- What does Praveen Rangnath do at Deepgram?
- Praveen Rangnath is the CMO of Deepgram.
- What does Deepgram do?
- Deepgram makes speech-to-text and voice AI models that developers build voice agents and transcription on.
- How much has Deepgram raised?
- Deepgram raised a $130M Series C led by AVP in January 2026, at a $1.3B valuation.

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