India, May 27 -- Former Microsoft executive Sangeeta Bavi has joined AI startup Anthropic as head of sales, digital natives and startups in India

Bavi earlier spent nearly a decade at Microsoft, where she built the big tech company's startups business from scratch and drove adoption of Azure OpenAI on enterprise accounts.

She will take over similar responsibilities at Anthropic, driving adoption of Claude among Indian startups and mid-market companies.

In her most recent role before joining Anthropic, she served as an advisor to deeptech VC Seafund in her previous role, before which she spent a year as Chief Operating Officer at YourStory Media. Earlier in her career, she also worked at Nokia and Wipro.

"As I got to know Anthropic, it...