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Seetharam Venkatesh

Investor

Former Investor at 8VC

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $3M – $30M checks · typically $10M

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About

Seetharam Venkatesh is Co-Founder and CEO of Spotonix, an enterprise analytics platform that generates verified answers from business data using a Context Graph built from approved query history and semantic models. He previously served as a Partner at Capital One Ventures and investor at 8VC, backing companies including Snowflake and ThoughtSpot, and was a co-creator of Apache Atlas and Apache Falcon, open-source data governance frameworks used by JPMorgan Chase, Target, Merck, and Aetna. His background includes engineering roles at Yahoo! managing large-scale data infrastructure across hundreds of terabytes.

Experience

  1. SpotonixCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. 8VCInvestorcurrent2021 — present
  3. StartupsAngel Investor & Startup Advisorcurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  4. The Apache Software FoundationApache Member, Mentor, Committer/PMC on various projectscurrent2013 — present
  5. OutlierInvestor - Series A2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  6. EnveilInvestor - Series A2019 — 2020
  7. Mesh DynamicsInvestor - Series Seed2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  8. HazelcastInvestor, Board Observer2017 — 2020
  9. Snowflake ComputingInvestor2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  10. Fauna Inc.Investor - Series A2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  11. Capital One VenturesPartner2017 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  12. GiffyIOCo-Founder and CEO2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  13. HortonworksEngineering Leader2011 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  14. Yahoo! Inc.Engineering Leader2007 — 2011San Francisco Bay Area
  15. Thomson/Cengage LearningDistributed Search Architect2003 — 2007
  16. various start-upsSoftware Developer1998 — 2003

Skills & more

Agentic Analytics1Business Intelligence (BI)1

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Alex KolicichScout
Investment Team at 8VC
Alex MooreScout
Investment Team at 8VC
Allison PavlickScout
Investor Relations Principal at S32
Bhaskar “BG” GhoshScout
Partner and CTO at 8VC
Denis AvenScout
Investor at 8VC
Eric ScottScout
Advisor at 8VC
Francisco GimenezScout
Investment Team at 8VC

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Seetharam Venkatesh?
Seetharam Venkatesh is Co-Founder and CEO of Spotonix, an enterprise analytics platform that generates verified answers from business data using a Context Graph built from approved query history and semantic models. He previously served as a Partner at Capital One Ventures and investor at 8VC, backing companies including Snowflake and ThoughtSpot, and was a co-creator of Apache Atlas and Apache Falcon, open-source data governance frameworks used by JPMorgan Chase, Target, Merck, and Aetna. His background includes engineering roles at Yahoo! managing large-scale data infrastructure across hundreds of terabytes.
What check size does Seetharam Venkatesh write?
Seetharam Venkatesh typically writes checks of $3M – $30M.
What companies has Seetharam Venkatesh invested in?
Investments tracked here include Outlier, Rephrase.ai, Snowflake.
Where did Seetharam Venkatesh go to school?
Seetharam Venkatesh studied at Bangalore University (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science).

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