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Abhishek Krishna is the founder of IPTO, an AI-native licensing platform, and a serial technology entrepreneur who also releases music as Abhi Cris.

Abhishek Krishna is an IIT Roorkee graduate, serial founder, and creative technologist. He is the founder of IPTO (AI-native licensing infrastructure), Create Protocol, and Human Data Rights, and releases electronic and ambient music under the alias Abhi Cris. Fifteen years of building between India, Japan, the Gulf, and the US.

Abhishek Krishna is a serial technology entrepreneur and creative technologist with fifteen years of building across India, Japan, the Gulf, and the United States. An IIT Roorkee graduate, he has served as CTO, product lead, and founder-CEO across multiple ventures, from Project Prodigy and Neuron Gym (400K+ downloads) to Ojam, the collaborative music editor. He is the co-founder of IPTO, an AI-native licensing platform building the rights and payment layer for the AI economy, and the founder of Create Protocol and Human Data Rights. He releases music as Abhi Cris: electronic, ambient, experimental. He works at the intersection of AI, intellectual property, and creative infrastructure.

Abhishek Krishna is a technology entrepreneur and creative technologist with over fifteen years of experience launching and scaling ventures across India, Japan, the Gulf, and the United States. An IIT Roorkee graduate, he is best known today as the co-founder of IPTO, an AI-native licensing platform that gives developers and creators ethical, programmatic access to licensed intellectual property through APIs, building the rights and payment infrastructure the AI economy currently lacks.

Alongside IPTO, he founded Create Protocol, a decentralized AI network for the post-AGI creative economy, and Human Data Rights, an initiative reframing personal data as a property right rather than a privacy concern. Earlier ventures include EdlogIQ (Project Prodigy career counselling for 15,000+ students; Neuron Gym brain-training games with 400,000+ downloads, featured globally) and Muzix Tech (Ojam, a collaborative music editor that grew to a 100,000-strong community).

He is also a musician and producer, releasing electronic, ambient, and experimental work under the alias Abhi Cris, with prior live experience as Wild Monks. He has held CTO, advisor, and founder–CEO roles across consumer and infrastructure businesses, working with founders, governments, and creators on both sides of the technology stack. He works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and creative networks.