Ravi Kurani

Solving Water at MySutro.com | Forbes 30 Under 30 | TEDx

Water is an underinvested market, yet it’s one of the most crucial resources we have. But I believe that through better storytelling and innovation, we can shine a light on the water industry’s challenges and opportunities. 

In 2014, I founded Sutro, a robotic water diagnostics platform designed to improve water chemistry and safety. I sold Sutro to Sani Marc in 2019 and am currently leading day-to-day operations.

Today, as President of Sutro (a subsidiary of Sani Marc), I oversee the development, marketing, and sales of smart water monitoring devices. Our technology is trusted by some of the biggest brands in the industry, and we are the only NSF-certified autonomous device for water safety. 

I’m proud to lead our team in revolutionizing how people interact with water, ensuring it's clean, safe, and accessible. 

🌊 Host of “Liquid Assets: The Business of Water,” a podcast about water through the lens of business, technology, and policy. 
➡️ https://www.liquidassets.cc/

🌊 Co-author of “Story-Driven Smart Products,” a practical guide to launching smart hardware products. 
➡️ https://a.co/d/1Bbd11r

🌊 Delivered a TEDx Talk on leveraging technology to improve water safety.
➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwuJnr-iWcY

Other Ventures:
⚙️ Leading the “Street to Home” project to address working capital gaps for the Future Communities Institute.

⚙️ Founded ImpactSpace, later sold to ImpactAlpha (the TechCrunch for impact investing).

⚙️ Advisor to various startups, including a software development agency (Incodeks) and a health navigation company (Juniper).

⚙️ Engineer in Residence at Future Communities VC, focused on tools to track climate solutions through the IRA (Inflation Redux Act).

Founding Member

Hampton is a dedicated group of digital-first founders, entrepreneurs, and CEOs of fast-growing startups who just get it – and make the crazy world of startup life a little easier to navigate.

Decision Counsel

Responsible for the overall client relationship including creating messaging and positioning, voice and tone, GTM strategy, product roadmaps, and sales enablement aligned to the companies overall vision and direction.

Executive Strategist and GM of Subscriber

Incodeks

Help to formulate and activate Incodek's North American expansion strategy.

Strategic Advisor

Charm

Grief Coach

As one of Grief Coach's Expert Contributors, I'm honored to be part of the team that creates the personalized, thoughtful text messages we deliver to people who are grieving and the courageous friends and family who support them.

Expert Contributor, Grief Coach

JSY Giving

JSY Giving is a granting nonprofit that was formed in loving memory of Jane Yin Bolander to help nonprofits in the Literacy, Women & Minority Entrepreneurship, Anti-Human Trafficking, and Services for Youth sectors tell better stories.

Executive Director

JSY PR & Marketing

A PR, Marketing, and Communications firm that specializes in IoT, Smart Home, and Consumer Medical Device product launch and scaling.

Owner

Lab Sensor Solutions, Inc.

A Healthcare Systems company working to bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to the clinical laboratory to help drive pre-analytical six sigma quality.

Founder and COO

G-Startup Worldwide Silicon Valley 2016 Batch

Finalist G-Startup Worldwide Silicon Valley 2016 Batch.

Ion Torrent by Life Technologies

Responsible for new product introductions, manufacturing support and improvements for Ion Torrent's line of semiconductor sequencing chips.

Product Engineering Manager

Tagent Corporation

Responsible for all technology development for Tagents RFID product line including tags, readers and software. Also responsible for fund raising support, standards development and IP matters.

VP of R&D

B2B2C Growth Strategy & Activation | Author of Ride or Die | The Entrepreneur Ethos Podcast Host

I’d like to be able to tell you that I planned all along to help B2B companies tell better stories but that would be a lie.

Well, not exactly a lie but not the full truth.

I started out as an engineer in Silicon Valley at a time when we were building the “information superhighway.”

Yeah, I’m a Gen-X Silicon Valley “Bro” who thought that “if you build it, they will come.”

That turned out to be a lie and it took me the better part of 20 years to figure out the truth.

Product is democratized. The best story wins.

The transition to B2B Storyteller starts like all good stories do – I met a girl.

Rather a woman who later became my wife and who also died of leukemia at the age of 36.

Yes, it’s as horrible as it sounds.

The reason I now do B2B Marketing is because I had to run her company, JSY PR & Marketing while she was sick.

It turned out that I was pretty good at it. Surprised me (and her) for sure.

So now, I teach people how to tell better stories so they can rise above the noise to build businesses that tell great stories.

Some of the things I have worked on include:

📶 Message & Positioning for complex B2B brands that want to accelerate brand awareness and generate leads in industries like financial services, maritime intelligence, and cybersecurity.

📶 Portfolio Rationalization for several private equity roll-ups to align to a solutions focus rather than a product focus.

🧬 Semiconductor DNA sequencing chips that enabled desktop sequencing of the human genome for <$1,000 and in half a day at Ion Torrent.
I have found that clear, concise, and compelling writing is the cornerstone of a solid strategy.

A brief description of some of my recent books:

📗 Story-Driven B2B Marketing: Grow your business by telling better stories.

📗 Story-Driven Decks: 3x your chances of getting the next meeting by creating a deck that tells a fantastic story

📗 Story-Driven Outreach: 2x or more your email response rates by telling clear, concise, and compelling stories.

📗 The Entrepreneur Ethos: How to build a more ethical, inclusive, and resilient world through entrepreneurship. 

🎤 As the host of The Entrepreneur Ethos Podcast, I enjoy talking to all sorts of entrepreneurs about their journey and what they have found useful that might help others. 

https://theentrepreneurethos.com/

Domains: B2B SaaS | B2B Growth Strategies | Sales Enablement | B2B Storytelling | Smart Devices | Digital Health | Semiconductors | DTC

Happy to connect with like-minded people.

Contact Me

📩 jarie@getstorydriven.com
🌐 https://getstorydriven.com

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