Rajat Mishra

“There are plenty of tools that are trying to make presentations pretty. We want to provide the best tools for business communications,” Rajat Mishra said in 2025. He is founder and CEO of Prezent, a Los Altos, California company that pairs an AI deck builder trained on each customer's brand with human presentation engineers.

Cisco, McKinsey, and Microsoft

Before Prezent, Mishra was a senior vice president at Cisco, where he had profit and loss responsibility for its $14 billion customer experience business and led a team of more than 1,000 people. He had earlier held leadership roles at Mu Sigma, McKinsey & Company, and Microsoft. He holds an MBA from Wharton and a computer science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Starting Prezent

Mishra founded Prezent in 2021 and announced a $4.3 million seed round that August. He is also the executive producer of the podcast Think Deeply. Speak Simply, and he holds three patents in AI and software automation.

Presentation Engineers

In October 2025 Prezent raised $30 million and bought Prezentium, a life sciences presentation services firm that Mishra had co-founded. “AI can do many things, it can't teach people [how] to use AI,” he said. “That is why we want to place presentation engineers in companies to help our customers adopt the product faster.”