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Arun Penmetsa

Early Stage Enterprise Investor

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Arun Penmetsa is a seasoned Early Stage Enterprise VC based in Palo Alto, California, with a strong background in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and business strategy. He has made significant investments in a variety of sectors, including Human Capital/HRTech, Security, and Health IT, and has played key roles as an investor or board member in successful companies like Bridgit and Carta Healthcare Inc. Arun's career highlights include serving as a Partner at Storm Ventures and making impactful investments in companies such as Talview and Qualio, contributing to their growth and success in the market.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2014 - Current

    Storm Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on building enterprise leaders. I lead early-stage investments in enterprise software companies with a focus on SaaS, CyberSecurity and Digital Health. Previously, I built enterprise software products at Oracle and Google.

Storm Ventures is a venture capital firm focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments.

  • Investor / Board Member

    2022

Zero Trust Isolation Platform that confines ransomware to a single device.

Raised $13,400,000.00 from Engineering Capital, Cervin Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Storm Ventures, Robert Tinker, Josh Leslie, Anuj Kapur and Manoj Apte.

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor / Board Member

    2021

  • Investor

    2021

Avoma is the all-in-one AI Meeting Assistant for working remotely.

Raised $15,000,000.00 from Global Founders Capital, K9 Ventures, Headline, Operator Partners, Zoom Apps Fund, Industry Ventures, Dragon Capital, Storm Ventures and Twin Ventures.

  • Investor / Board Observer

    2021

Motivo uses advanced analytics and AI to help fabless design companies.

Raised $20,531,861.00 from Inventus Capital Partners, Storm Ventures, Intel Capital and Seraph Group.

  • Investor / Board Member

    2021

Carta Healthcare empowers hospitals to personalize the delivery of care to the individual needs of each patient.

Raised $42,300,000.00 from Memorial Hermann Foundation, UnityPoint Health, Mass General Brigham, The CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, Maverick Ventures, Storm Ventures, Asset Management Ventures (AMV), Frist Cressey Ventures, Paramark Ventures and American College of Cardiology.

  • Investor

    2020

    Krisp is a communication platform the enhances voice-based communication. The first product removes background noise across any platform or application

Krisp’s mission is to maximize the productivity of every digital voice conversation and help businesses achieve better business outcomes.

Raised $17,500,000.00 from TechNexus Venture Collaborative, Storm Ventures, s16vc, CM Ventures, RTP Global, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, CM Ventures, HIVE Ventures, Storm Ventures and Sierra Ventures.

  • Investor / Board Member

    2020

    Qualio is a modern quality management software (QMS) that brings your products to the market faster. Designed for life sciences companies (medical device, pharma, biotech, and contract organizations) who develop, produce, and distribute life-saving products and services.

Qualio is a quality management system helping life sciences companies bring quality products to the market.

Raised $66,117,233.00 from MHS Capital, Sorenson Capital, Frontline Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Storm Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Operator Partners.

  • Investor / Board Member

    2019

    Talview provides the fastest and most efficient way for an organization to hire talent through its InstaHiring platform. Enterprises like Amazon, Deloitte, and Unicef rely on Talview to manage their global recruiting.

Talview offers a recruiting automation and education tech platform that enables schools to remotely screen, interview, and test students.

Raised $21,795,678.00 from Emergent Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners, Eileses Capital and Storm Ventures.

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