Vinay Bhaskara

Vinay Bhaskara is a co-founder of CollegeVine, an operational AI company for higher education. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Vinay works closely with our Product team to architect CollegeVine's AI platform—spanning a higher-ed-specific ontology and semantic data layer, autonomous AI agents, agentic workflows, and custom applications built on institutional data. He oversees the company's data science and research practices, producing proprietary insights from a network of millions of students and more than 250 partner institutions. A Forbes contributor, Vinay writes on AI's impact on enrollment, the Search Cliff, and the future of AI in higher education. He is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences and has directly counseled over 500 families through the college admissions process.