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About
Varun Ramakrishnan is a Principal on the investment team at SignalFire, where he focuses on seed to Series B investments in AI companies. He has a background in computer science and robotics.
Experience
- SignalFirePrincipal | Investment Teamcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, CA & New York, NY
- General AtlanticInvestment Team2020 — 2024New York, New York, United States
- Pear VCVenture Fellow2020 — 2021Palo Alto, California, United States
- Various StartupsSoftware Engineer2016 — 2020
Skills & more
Investing5Venture Capital8Machine Learning4Entrepreneurship6Leadership7Computer Vision4
From Varun's professional profile.
Colleagues at SignalFire
Aayush Sharma
Senior Associate at SignalFire
Alex Hooshmand
Co-founder ZaiNar & Bluekai at SignalFire
Andrew Reid
Director, GTM Recruiting at SignalFire
Asher Bantock
Head of Research at SignalFire
Ben Davenport
CTO & Co-founder of BitGo; former Co-founder of Beluga at SignalFire
Bill MacCartney
AI Fund Fellow at AI Fund
Bobby Lent
Managing Partner at Hillsven & Co-founder of Ariba at SignalFire
Brad Hoover
former CEO of Grammarly at SignalFire
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Varun Ramakrishnan?
- Varun Ramakrishnan is a Principal on the investment team at SignalFire, where he focuses on seed to Series B investments in AI companies. He has a background in computer science and robotics.
- Where does Varun Ramakrishnan work?
- Varun Ramakrishnan is Principal at SignalFire.
- Where did Varun Ramakrishnan go to school?
- Varun Ramakrishnan studied at University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor's degree, The Jerome Fisher Program for Management and Technology (M&T)); University of Pennsylvania (Master's degree, Robotics); The Wharton School (Bachelor's degree, Economics).
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