Manish Garg

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer Skan.ai

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Manish Garg co-founded Skan AI in 2018 with Avinash Misra, a childhood friend and IIT classmate with whom he had already built and sold one company, and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. Skan’s proposition is narrow and unusual: rather than reconstructing how an organization works from interviews, workshops or system logs, it observes the work itself through computer vision and distils what it sees into what the company now calls the context graph of work — the sequence of steps, the judgement calls and the exceptions that documentation never captures. The commercial argument is that enterprise AI agents fail not because they lack intelligence but because they lack this context. The market has responded: Skan has taken $117 million across three rounds, closing a $63 million Series C in August 2026 co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, and says it is trusted by a quarter of the Fortune 50 and seven of the ten largest banks. Garg’s earlier company, Endeavour, was acquired by Genpact in 2015.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Skan AI in 2018 with Avinash Misra, on the shared belief — as the company puts it — that if they could observe how work actually gets done, there would be no limit to the AI they could build on top of it.
• Listed on the company’s own About Us page as one of its two founders, with the operating title Chief Operating Officer.
• Saw the first version of the product launch in 2020, establishing what the company describes as a new category: dynamic process intelligence, built on computer vision and observation rather than on interviews and assumptions.
• Helped raise a $14 million Series A led by Cathay Innovation in 2021, with Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Zetta Venture Partners and Firebolt Ventures participating; a $40 million Series B led by Dell Technologies Capital in 2022, with GSR Ventures and Liberty Global joining; and a $63 million Series C in August 2026 co-led by Cathay and Dell Technologies Capital, with State Farm Ventures and Wipro Ventures joining.
• Was part of the company’s move into agentic AI: the acquisition of Metaculars in 2025, a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 placement the same year, and the 2026 launch of the Agentic Ontology of Work, an open semantic framework for humans and AI agents to share an understanding of work.
• Co-founded Endeavour, a mobile and digital solutions provider, which Genpact agreed to acquire in September 2015 to strengthen its digital transformation capabilities.
• Publishes regularly with the Forbes Technology Council on enterprise and agentic AI, most recently in September 2026 on why insurance claims are more complex than process maps suggest.

Professional Journey

Garg’s working partnership with Avinash Misra long predates Skan. The company’s own account describes the two as childhood friends and classmates at an Indian Institute of Technology, and by 2018 they were second-time founders. The first venture was Endeavour, a provider of mobile and digital solutions; Genpact announced an agreement to acquire it on 30 September 2015, citing expanded mobility services and digital transformation capability as the rationale.

Skan began in 2018 with a thesis about observation. Process mining as practised elsewhere depended on event logs from the systems people used, which meant it could only see what those systems recorded — and the gap between what a log shows and what a person actually does is where most of the difficulty in enterprise operations lives. Skan’s approach was to watch the work directly, using computer vision, and to build the map from that evidence. The first version of the platform launched in 2020.

Funding followed the product. Cathay Innovation led a $14 million Series A in 2021; Dell Technologies Capital led a $40 million Series B in 2022 as the company pushed into large regulated enterprises — banks, insurers, healthcare organizations — where most observational tooling cannot clear information security review. By 2025 the company had moved its positioning toward agentic AI, publishing a manifesto drawn from more than fifty enterprise deployments and acquiring Metaculars.

The August 2026 Series C reframed the company again. Skan now describes itself not as a process intelligence vendor but as the context graph of work for enterprise AI, and launched its Blueprint and Agents products into general availability alongside the raise. The pitch Misra gave at the time was that everyone is obsessed with building a better car when the bigger opportunity is a better navigation system. As chief operating officer, Garg carries the delivery side of that: the company claims average operational savings of 30 to 40 per cent and more than $500 million in cumulative measured customer value, in environments where the security bar alone excludes most competitors.

Education

No education record could be established. Skan AI’s own company timeline describes Garg and his co-founder as “childhood friends, IIT classmates”, which places him at an Indian Institute of Technology, but no source located names the campus, the degree or the years. Nothing is asserted here on the strength of a partial.