Rational Innovation provides strategic advisory services and makes discretionary minority investments in early and late stage entrepreneurial startups, taking on board and operational leadership roles as necessary at invested and portfolio companies. We have a proven track record of driving rapid sustainable long-term growth with significant improvements in business performance.
Provides strategic consulting and transaction services to public and private companies on M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, business incubators and corporate restructuring to accelerate top and bottom line growth. Deep experience working with diverse stakeholders with widely differing strategic objectives, long-term agendas, time horizons and exit strategies.
Invested companies and their entrepreneurs have been recognized in the Inc. 500, Goldman Sachs Top 100 Entrepreneurs, Deloitte Tech Fast 500, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Software 500.
Representative portfolio of Past and Current Investments.
Private Equity
Software Product Development
Financial Services
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Hospitality
Mohan Tavorath brings 20+ years of experience at entrepreneurial high-growth startups as well as Fortune 100 corporations and Big 4 management consulting firms. He is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year regional finalist and a National Association of Corporate Directors’ (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow.
Mohan has served in board, executive and management positions at various high-growth entrepreneurial companies, some of which have been recognized by awards in the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing US private companies, Deloitte North America Tech Fast 500 and Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurial 100. Mohan has served in both the public services and commercial sectors, with companies or clients that have included KPMG Consulting, General Electric (GE), Morgan Stanley, American International Group (AIG), Dun & Bradstreet and Vanguard, Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Mohan graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Master's degree in Business Administration (Dean's List) and holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science (with Distinction) from the University of Poona, India.
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