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AI-driven media and content production

Ram Venkat was CFO and COO of Talespin, the virtual reality learning company Cornerstone OnDemand acquired in March 2024. The practice leads with that record: VR titles at volume, AI characters inside them, and the pipeline that shipped both.

Ram Nexus brings that record to the technology and the capital behind a build.

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Talespin: AI-driven learning worlds, authored once and delivered in virtual reality.
Talespin: AI-driven learning worlds, authored once and delivered in virtual reality.

Deep tech

Virtual and augmented reality

Spatial computing built on new hardware as it arrived, shipped to headsets, desktop, and streaming.

AI characters

Virtual humans that react

CoPilot characters answer a learner's voice and choices in real time, and score the conversation as it happens.

Content pipelines

AI through every production step

Generative tooling and no-code authoring carried a title from brief to shipped build, without a bespoke team each time.

AI + XR

Deep tech

Virtual and augmented reality, AI characters, and the production engines behind them.

Founder

Companies built

Co-founded Being Human and multiple businesses, one key brand sold. Founder of Kavlo.

10+ yrs

Capital markets

Raises, sales, takeover defence, and multi-asset structuring on three continents.

NASA

Engineering

Integrated circuits for NASA deep-space missions and Department of Defense satellite programmes.

Where the practice sits

Practice areas

Four practice areas, one team

Every mandate opens on two questions: what has to be built, and which risk decides the outcome. Creation and delivery sit alongside strategic, funding, growth, acquisition, and market risk, and each one needs a different instrument.

All four run through Being Human, the studio behind the practice. That is where the engineers, designers, and operators come from when a mandate needs more than one pair of hands.

01 // Media

AI-driven media and content production

We build interactive and immersive content end to end: games, simulations, and spatial worlds, with AI characters and narrative inside a pipeline built to ship at volume.

  • Game, simulation, and interactive title development, from concept to shipped build
  • Virtual reality and spatial content for headsets, desktop, and streaming
  • AI characters, voice, and branching narrative that react to the user
  • Authoring tools, gamification, and a pipeline that ships a full catalogue
02 // Transformation

AI-native transformation

We rebuild the operating layer around AI, then build the systems that were missing: agents, data architecture, and internal tools your team runs every day.

  • Operating diagnostic: where the work slows and what to build first
  • Agent and workflow design wired into the systems you already run
  • Data architecture that compounds as the business grows
  • Internal tools built and shipped, then adopted by the team that uses them
03 // Capital

Capital and corporate finance

We sit on your side of the table for the transaction that sets the next decade: the raise, the sale, the defence, the recapitalisation.

  • Equity, debt, convertible, and hybrid capital across the stack
  • Buy-side and sell-side transactions, takeover and defence mandates
  • Derivative-based funding and capital structuring solutions
  • Board and investor materials that survive real diligence
04 // Infrastructure

Private AI infrastructure

For the work that cannot leave the building. We stand up AI infrastructure you own, running open models next to your own data.

  • Hardware you own, from desk side to rack scale, on premise or colocated
  • Open models chosen per task and swapped without rebuilding the stack
  • Retrieval and agents over your documents, with a full audit trail
  • Fixed cost per token, and no data leaving your perimeter

Private AI

Your models. Your hardware. Your data stays put.

Regulated industries, defence-adjacent programmes, and live deal data share one constraint: the information cannot go into someone else's cloud.

Economics

Fixed cost per token

Capital and power replace a metered bill that grows with your success.

Control

Nothing to renegotiate

No vendor reprices the stack, and no model is retired out from under your workflow.

We run this ourselves before we hand it to anyone. The architecture is proven, the failure modes are known, and the cost per token is a number rather than an estimate.

Your perimeter

  • Hardware

    Machines you own

    On premise or colocated. Desk side through to rack scale.

  • Models

    Open weights, swappable

    Chosen per task, served behind one standard endpoint.

  • Data

    Retrieval and agents

    Indexed over your own documents. Every call is audited.

Your team, across your own network

No path out to a public model API. Your prompts, documents, and deal data never leave.

Track record

Twenty years, four disciplines

Integrated circuit design for NASA and Department of Defense satellite programmes. A decade of bulge-bracket investment banking. Nine years as an operator and founder. Board advisory to AI-native companies since 2021.

  1. AI-native advisory

    2021 to now

    Building and advising AI-native companies

    Founding Partner at Being Human, founder of Kavlo, and board advisor to companies rebuilding themselves around AI. The practice was formed to make that work available on its own.

    • Founding Partner at Being Human, an AI-native venture studio
    • Founder of Kavlo, enterprise contract and vendor intelligence
    • Board advisory at Phantom Space and Bolt Financial
    • Private AI infrastructure designed, deployed, and operated in-house

  2. Operator and founder

    2015 to 2024

    Running the businesses, not just advising them

    Co-founded multiple businesses and led every part of financial strategy and operations. Served as CFO and COO of Talespin, running the content, engineering, and media pipelines through the Series C and the March 2024 acquisition by Cornerstone OnDemand.

    • CFO and COO of Talespin through to acquisition
    • A catalogue of virtual reality titles and scenarios shipped
    • Co-founder of multiple businesses, one key brand sold
    • Full ownership of financial strategy, planning, and reporting

  3. Capital markets

    2005 to 2016

    A decade inside bulge-bracket investment banking

    Investment Banking, Mergers and Acquisitions, Equity Capital Markets, and multi-asset Structuring at several global banks in North America. Built the capital structures, defence playbooks, and financing instruments behind transactions on three continents.

    • Equity, debt, convertible, and hybrid capital structured across the stack
    • Buy-side, sell-side, and cross-border mandates on three continents
    • Sovereign wealth funds, private equity, and global corporates
    • Takeover and defence mandates, and derivative-based funding

  4. Engineering

    Before 2005

    Silicon Valley, and systems that cannot fail

    Electrical and Computer Engineer designing hardware and software for microchips and integrated circuits used in NASA deep-space missions and Department of Defense satellite programmes, then commercialising novel space technologies.

    • Microchip and integrated circuit design, hardware and software
    • NASA deep-space missions and Department of Defense satellite programmes
    • Novel space technology commercialised under the Canadian Space Agency's Space Technology Development Program

Case studies

Selected mandates showing the practice areas at work, delivered through Being Human.

01

Being Human

2024 to Current

beinghuman.studio

AI-native venture studio, Los Angeles to Sydney

  • Media
  • Infrastructure

Being Human is an AI-native venture studio with offices in Los Angeles, Toronto, Singapore, and Sydney. Ram co-founded it and serves as Founding Partner and Principal, building products, content pipelines, and infrastructure before a venture launches. Ram Nexus draws its build team from the studio. Two ventures carry the model in public, and both are AI-driven media products, built inside the studio and run as independent companies.

Founding Partner

of the studio behind every mandate

Ventures under the Being Human banner
Luminary
In development

Room-scale AI edutainment for children

Children build something with their hands, use AI to bring it to life, then step inside the world they made, projected around them at room scale. Delivered as a manufactured product system in four formats: full centre, pop-up, school corner, and venue partnership. First locations Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in 2027.

luminary.sg
WonderCast
Launched

Personalised AI stories starring your child

A character builder, a story engine, and voice narration put a child at the centre of the story. WonderCast generates AI storybooks, animated video books, and audiobooks, with a memory library that keeps every one. Available now on Web, iOS, and Apple TV.

wondercast.app
02

Talespin

2021 to 2024

www.talespin.com
Talespin: VR learning platform and content catalogue, acquired by Cornerstone

VR learning platform and content catalogue, acquired by Cornerstone

  • Media
  • Transformation
  • Capital

Catalogue

of interactive VR titles shipped

CFO and COO of Talespin, the virtual reality learning company. Ran finance, operations, and engineering across a business whose product was content: a full catalogue of interactive VR titles and branching game scenarios, across soft skills such as negotiation and difficult conversations and hard skills such as process training. The technology underneath carried it. CoPilot virtual humans read a learner's voice and choices, respond in character, and score performance live, and CoPilot Designer let customers author their own titles from a character and environment library with no code.

  • Talespin: Branded worlds built for customers

    Branded worlds built for customers

  • Talespin: CoPilot Designer, the no-code authoring engine

    CoPilot Designer, the no-code authoring engine

  • Talespin: Interactive titles in the runtime

    Interactive titles in the runtime

  • Talespin: Headset and desktop delivery

    Headset and desktop delivery

  • Talespin: The Cornerstone OnDemand acquisition

    The Cornerstone OnDemand acquisition

03

Phantom Space

2024 to Current

phantomspace.com
Phantom Space: Space technology and manufacturing

Space technology and manufacturing

  • Transformation
  • Infrastructure

Orbital

launch and satellite manufacturing

Leading AI-native digital transformation for Phantom Space Corporation, streamlining satellite manufacturing and orbital rocket launch deployment systems. The work optimised their vertical technology stack for scalable space infrastructure.

  • Phantom Space: Orbital launch

    Orbital launch

  • Phantom Space: Engine manufacturing

    Engine manufacturing

  • Phantom Space: Satellite assembly

    Satellite assembly

  • Phantom Space: Satellite testing

    Satellite testing

04

Bolt Financial

2025 to Current

bolt.com

One-click checkout, the Checkout 2.0 platform

  • Transformation
  • Capital

80M

shoppers on the network

Strategic consulting for Bolt's Checkout 2.0 platform, optimising the one-click payment experience and the self-learning user profiles behind it. The work focuses on improving internal business processes with AI tooling and creating a seamless checkout for over 80 million shoppers.

  • Bolt Financial: The shopper app

    The shopper app

  • Bolt Financial: The one-click account network

    The one-click account network

  • Bolt Financial: TechCrunch on the raise

    TechCrunch on the raise

  • Bolt Financial: The Palantir partnership

    The Palantir partnership

The practice

Who you are actually working with

Ram Venkat ran the content studio, the production pipeline, and the AI systems inside the titles at Talespin, then carried the company through its sale to Cornerstone OnDemand in March 2024. Ram Nexus carries that operating record into every mandate, principal-led throughout. Being Human, the studio he co-founded, supplies the engineers, designers, and operators when the work needs more hands.

Talespin

Operating record

COO of Talespin, 2021 to the acquisition

Talespin sold immersive learning in virtual reality: interactive titles, AI virtual humans, and a no-code engine customers used to build their own. Ram ran it as COO from 2021 to the Cornerstone OnDemand acquisition in March 2024, holding content production, engineering, the VR and spatial pipeline, the studio and vendor bench, and the finance function.

  • Title catalogue

    A full library of branching, game-based scenarios and simulation titles.

  • VR production pipeline

    Every title shipped to Oculus Quest headsets, desktop streaming, and desktop apps from one pipeline.

  • AI characters

    CoPilot virtual humans reacted to a learner's voice and choices, and scored the conversation live.

  • Engineering and vendors

    The engineering team and the vendor bench behind the catalogue ran under him, from headcount and budget to schedule.

  • Finance through the exit

    He ran finance and operations through the Series C and the March 2024 acquisition by Cornerstone OnDemand.

Under Ram the studio shipped a catalogue of branching interactive titles and simulations, covering negotiation, difficult conversations, and leadership, alongside hard-skill process training such as water-damage inspection. He owned the pipeline that produced them: writing and interaction design, 3D and environment production, the CoPilot virtual-human layer that let characters react to a learner's voice, and the release schedule that put finished work in front of PwC, Accenture, and Farmers Insurance.

Before Talespin, Ram spent over a decade in bulge-bracket investment banking at Citi Global Markets and across Wall Street. He started as an Electrical and Computer Engineer, designing microchips and integrated circuits for NASA deep-space missions and Department of Defense satellite programmes, then commercialising novel space technology under the Canadian Space Agency Space Technology Development Program. Both periods share the same focus: designing something from the start, then building the system that produces it repeatedly.

M.B.A.

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto ยท Summa cum laude

B.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

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A content pipeline to build, an operating rebuild, a model that has to run inside your own four walls, a raise, or a sale. The first conversation costs nothing and usually clarifies the question.

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Where we work

Four offices across three continents, covering the Asia Pacific, North American, and transpacific windows in a single working day.

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  • Sydney

    Australia

    33.87ยฐ S

  • Singapore

    Singapore

    1.35ยฐ N

  • Toronto

    Canada

    43.65ยฐ N

  • Los Angeles

    California

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