Dr Sai Lakshmi is a serial entrepreneur who has launched several ground-breaking consumer start-up digital businesses.
His latest venture Caura is an iOS app, launched in 2021, that is designed to enabled vehicle owners to manage all their motor administration in the one app. To register for the one-stop-shop app, drivers onboard by entering their vehicle registration number and this enables them to manage parking, tolls, MOT, road tax, car insurance and congestion charges.
Prior to being the co-founder and CEO of Caura, Lakshmi founded pharmacy website Echo in 2015 to simplify the prescription process for the NHS. In 2019, he sold it to Lloyds Pharmacy, which is now branded as LloydsDirect. Using the website, customers can order their medications and once approved by their GP, it is delivered to their home or it can be collected at a Lloyds Pharmacy.
Among other roles, Lakshmi was business development manager for Apple between 2012 and 2015; and a mergers and acquisition associate of Arma Partners, a financial adviser to digital enterprises, between 2009 and 2012.
Lakshmi obtained a degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College, London and gained a PhD in engineering science at University of Oxford.