Where does Sekhar Sarukkai work?

Sekhar Sarukkai is Co-founder, CEO of ChatSee and Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Skyhigh Networks.

What check size does Sekhar Sarukkai write?

Sekhar Sarukkai typically writes checks of $5K – $50K.

What companies did Sekhar Sarukkai found?

Sekhar Sarukkai founded ChatSee, Skyhigh Networks.

Where did Sekhar Sarukkai go to school?

Sekhar Sarukkai studied at Indiana University Bloomington (MS & Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science).

Sekhar Sarukkai

Founder

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Skyhigh Networks · Co-founder, CEO at ChatSee

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $5K – $50K checks · typically $25K

FoundedChatSee Skyhigh Networks

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Zhenyu TangunlockedSekhar: together at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (2001)

×5Sekhar: together at University of California, Berkeley

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Sekhar: together at Skyhigh Networks

About

Sekhar Sarukkai is the founder and CEO of ChatSee.ai, a company developing a runtime assurance and failure intelligence platform that detects, diagnoses, and helps remediate behavioral failures in enterprise AI agents, workflows, and autonomous decision systems. Over the past two decades he has co-founded enterprise software companies that were acquired by Oracle, Cisco, and McAfee, working in areas including web services management and cloud security. He teaches and advises at UC Berkeley on topics spanning cybersecurity, distributed systems, and AI governance.

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Skyhigh Networks

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Skyhigh Networks's investors · 4

Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks · since 2014 Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2014 Tenaya CapitalPalo Alto · $5M – $10M checks · since 2014 Thomvest VenturesSan Francisco · $2M – $5M checks · since 2014

Co-founders at Skyhigh Networks

Rajiv GuptaCo-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Kaushik NarayanCo-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Co-founder, CEO at ChatSee

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ChatSee's investors · 1

First Rays Venture PartnersSan Francisco

Co-founders at ChatSee

Sanjay AgrawalCo-founder, CTO

Experience

Chatsee.aiFounder, CEOcurrent2025 — present
University of California, BerkeleyFaculty Member; EAC @ CLTC; Advisor & LP @ Berkeley SkyDeckcurrent2020 — present
McAfeeVP, Fellow (now Skyhigh Security)2018 — 2021Santa Clara
Skyhigh NetworksFounder, Chief Scientist & SVP Engineering (now McAfee / Skyhigh Security)2012 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
MicrograamCo-founder2010 — 2017
Cisco SystemsSenior Director Engineering, PMBU/Security Technology Group2007 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
Securent (now Cisco)Founder, CTO2004 — 2007San Francisco Bay Area
Confluent Software (now Oracle)Founder, CTO2001 — 2004San Francisco Bay Area
Hewlett-Packard LaboratoriesSenior Researcher1996 — 2001
NASA Ames Research CenterComputer Scientist (Recom Tech., Gov. contractor)1993 — 1996

Network1

Eliza Loring McGinnScout

Vice President at Optum Ventures

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Sekhar Sarukkai?: Sekhar Sarukkai is the founder and CEO of ChatSee.ai, a company developing a runtime assurance and failure intelligence platform that detects, diagnoses, and helps remediate behavioral failures in enterprise AI agents, workflows, and autonomous decision systems. Over the past two decades he has co-founded enterprise software companies that were acquired by Oracle, Cisco, and McAfee, working in areas including web services management and cloud security. He teaches and advises at UC Berkeley on topics spanning cybersecurity, distributed systems, and AI governance.
Where does Sekhar Sarukkai work?: Sekhar Sarukkai is Co-founder, CEO of ChatSee and Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Skyhigh Networks.
What check size does Sekhar Sarukkai write?: Sekhar Sarukkai typically writes checks of $5K – $50K.
What companies did Sekhar Sarukkai found?: Sekhar Sarukkai founded ChatSee, Skyhigh Networks.
Where did Sekhar Sarukkai go to school?: Sekhar Sarukkai studied at Indiana University Bloomington (MS & Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science).

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