Avi Bharadwaj
Investment Director at Intel Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Director
2022 - Current
Intel Capital invests in innovative startups across four domains - cloud, devices, silicon, and frontier tech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested over $13 billion in more than 1,500 companies worldwide. At Intel Capital, I focus on leading early-stage investments in AI/ML application and infrastructure software companies.
Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies.
Raised $650,000.00 from Raj Sareen.
Kauffman Fellow | Class 29
2024
Since 1995, Kauffman Fellows has accelerated the development and success of venture capital investors around the world, supporting Fellows to navigate every aspect of innovation investing, from deal flow to public markets. With 800+ Fellows across 65 countries, Kauffman Fellows is the largest network of VCs and innovation leaders in the world. In the 27 years since inception, Kauffman Fellows have started hundreds of funds, raised and deployed hundreds of billions of dollars in capital, and helped pave the way for some of the world’s most groundbreaking companies. As a network, Kauffman Fellows represent over $290 billion in assets under management, have collectively raised over $790 billion dollars in capital, and have been responsible for over $8.5 trillion in exits to LPs.
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Investor
2024
At Scale, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. We believe that to make the best models, you need the best data. The Scale Generative AI Platform leverages your enterprise data to customize powerful base generative models to safely unlock the value of AI. The Scale Data Engine consists of all the tools and features you need to collect, curate and annotate high-quality data, in addition to robust tools to evaluate and optimize your models. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. Scale is trusted by leading technology companies like Microsoft and Meta, enterprises like Fox and Accenture, Generative AI companies like Open AI and Cohere, U.S. Government Agencies like the U.S. Army and the U.S. Airforce, and Startups like Brex and OpenSea.
Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.
Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.
Investor and Board Director
2023
BRIA is a visual generative AI company operating at the forefront of responsible AI development. With a mission to empower developers and AI teams while upholding copyright and privacy compliance in visual generative AI, BRIA offers cutting-edge visual generative AI-trained models, source code, APIs, and development productivity tools that are revolutionizing the way businesses and developers approach visual generative AI. BRIA is also dedicated to fostering a sustainable economy that benefits data owners, artists, and visual generative AI users alike. BRIA believes in creating a harmonious ecosystem where the power of visual generative AI technology can be harnessed responsibly and ethically for the collective betterment of all involved. BRIA was one of the first companies to be recognized by Fairly Trained, a non-profit that certifies generative AI companies for training data practices that respect creators' rights.
Investor
2023
Helping developers build programs that can see, hear, and understand the world as we do by giving them the world's most powerful video-understanding infrastructure.
Twelve Labs makes video foundation models accessible via APIs to empower businesses and developers to build intelligent video products.
Raised $77,120,000.00 from Korea Investment Partners, New Enterprise Associates, WndrCo, NVentures, Radical Ventures and Index Ventures.
Investor and Board Director
2021 - 2022
RightBound transforms the inefficient sales prospecting routines into a data-driven, autonomous process, increasing ROI for sales development teams of all sizes.
RightBound develops a sales platform that automates and streamlines the sales process.
Raised $27,500,000.00 from IBI Tech Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Gil Shklarski, Innovation Endeavors, IBI Tech Fund, Operator Collective, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg.
Investor and Board Observer
2020 - 2022
TuneIn has grown to become one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world with 75 million monthly active users. TuneIn has over 120,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations and more than 5.7 million on-demand programs stemming from every continent, and is available for free across 200 platforms and connected devices.
From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world.
Raised $146,622,231.00 from Innovation Endeavors.
Investor and Board Observer
2019 - 2022
AlphaSense is a revolutionary, award-winning search engine that helps you to instantly cut through the noise and uncover critical data points that others miss
AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professionals make informed, impactful decisions.
Raised $1,420,053,806.00 from BDT & MSD Partners, Blue Owl, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, CapitalG, Alkeon Capital, Viking Global Investors and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Investor and Board Observer
2018 - 2022
DataRails is a financial planning and analysis platform that automates financial reporting and planning, while enabling finance teams to continue benefiting from the familiar spreadsheets and financial models of Excel
Datarails is a financial planning and analysis platform for Excel users
Raised $103,500,000.00 from Vertex Ventures Israel, Innovation Endeavors, Horizon Capital, La Maison Partners, Joey Low, Zeev Ventures, ClalTech, Vintage Investment Partners and Qumra Capital.
Principal
2017 - 2022
Innovation Endeavors is an early- and expansion-stage venture capital firm. We invest in visionary founders, transformational technology and emergent ecosystems for a new world. The firm manages $1 billion, and is headquartered in three major regions of innovation: Silicon Valley; Tel Aviv; and New York City. Select companies that I sourced, led/co-led investments in, and/or worked closely with at IE and Marker: - RightBound (Board Director) - AlphaSense (Board Observer) - TuneIn (Board Observer) - Datorama (Acquired by Salesforce.com, Inc.; Board Observer) - DataRails (Board Observer) - RevSure.AI - Farmer's Fridge - Eko - Tubular Labs - Vertical Knowledge (Board Observer)
Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.