CEO's You Should Know: Srikanth Kodeboyina, Blue Eye Soft

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Episode Transcript

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Today on CEOs. You should knowwe're talking to Shri Khan Kadya Bunyak.
Thank you for joining us today.We know you've been in South Carolina for
several years now. Are you enjoyingthe weather or you enjoying the community?
Oh? Yeah, absolutely. Ithink that was one of the key factors
which made me to call South Carolinamy home. I love the weather all
here we're reading in the news andfor most of us, like myself,
we have a hard time understanding AI. That's not something you have a hard

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time understanding. You're advancing it herein the Palmetto State. Tell us a
little bit about Blue Eye Soft andthe projects you're working on. We are
advanced AI advanced data analytics companies,so we are trying to solve some of
the critical problems, especially focused onspace. We have a special product called
Safer where we are trying to weatherproof space. It's been quite a journey

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to work with artworks and space worksand develop this one of critical products for
the entire globe. You know,your space efforts are going to be something
that most South Carolinians like myself willhave to read about extensively. But one
of the other things that you're doingas your advancements in the medical community.
Tell me about that when there wasa COVID pandemic, we did a tech
transfer from University of Dayton and builda product called blue doc AI. We

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are thankful to a usc that camein to support us and then the relations
that we build over here. Weused AI to detect the presence of COVID
nineteen, so we had to interactwith multiple nations and we thought we were
a billion dollar company, but thenthe money that we made, we were
very happy and proud on how wetried to develop the product in an explited

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way from South Carolina during the pandemictime. It was March twenty twenty.
I still remember that days use AIto detect and diagnosis diseases really helped us
to solve some of the important problemsthat the world was facing at that time.
Utilizing AI was a very fun activityfor us. We got a patent

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on that Blue Dock AI as well. I mentioned earlier, you've been in
South Carolina for several years. Doyou have other businesses that call and ask
you, Hey, what's it likedoing business in South Carolina? Is this
a place I should consider from mycompany. We are trying to bring some
of the Silicon Valley companies back toSouth Carolina. So yes, our universities
across the state, I'm sure,like most universities across the nation, have

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made tremendous investments on software, computerengineering and now with AI. Meanwhile,
our technical system has really been workinghard through se works and otherwise. Have
you found that to be true thatyou can find people in South Carolina to
help train for positions? Oh?Yeah, absolutely. We recently got one
student who was an Army commissioned officerfrom Furman University, which we never expected

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to be a science and technology relatedexpertise. So yeah, we are happy
on the kind of people that weare getting over here. That's exciting news
for South Carolinians. Tell me aboutworking with the South Carolina Department of Commerce
and how that's been to help growyour company. We got supported on four
different aspects straight from the day oftrying to have our enterprisal development. A

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c Commerce team worked along with GABCsupported our initial set up in twenty seventeen.
Having the right press releases from governorand stuff. We got States media
attention and support. That was aquick start of the program. Then we
got our three phase sc which reallysupported us to get these SBR grants.
Working with space Works and raft Works. That was a valuable support at no

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cost. And SC Commerce really sentus on a trade missions globally. We
got US Commerce export achievements support.I personally traveled over seven countries trying to
sell the product that we developed herefrom South Carolina. So we can't be
thankful to SC Commerce more than forwhat they have done to us. I
think it's one of the active commercedepartments within the state, trying to do

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the best for small businesses like US.