Comply or Die: The Rise of the AI Governance Stack - Battery Ventures
Talks about AI governance, AI compliance and AI regulation
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Dharmesh Thakker
General Partner at Battery Ventures
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Dharmesh Thakker is a General Partner at Battery Ventures, focusing on supporting entrepreneurs in the fields of Cloud, DevOps, AI, and Security. With a background in venture capital and strategic partnerships, he has invested in notable companies like Ordr, InfluxData, and Contrast Security, while serving on the boards of Opal Security, Theta Lake, and Arize AI.
Thakker's career highlights include leading investments in various successful Series A, B, and E funding rounds for companies in the security, developer tools, and AI sectors, showcasing his expertise in strategic planning and business development within the tech industry.
Work Experience
General Partner
2015 - Current
Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.
Board Member
2023
An identity and access management platform that offers a consolidated view and control of your ecosystem from on-prem to cloud and SaaS.
Raised $33,800,000.00 from BoxGroup, Battery Ventures and Greylock.
Investor
2023
Board Member
2022
Theta Lake is a collaboration tool for the workplace with archive connectors, compliant archiving, ML-based security, and data protection.
Raised $67,700,000.00 from Neotribe Ventures, Zoom, RingCentral Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cisco Investments and Battery Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Normalyze is a data-first cloud security platform.
Raised $26,600,000.00 from Fellows Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Battery Ventures.
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2021
Arize AI offers a platform that explains and troubleshoots production AI.
Raised $61,024,999.00 from Battery Ventures, TCV, Swift Ventures and Foundation Capital.
Board Observer
2021
Postman is a software company that offers a platform for the users to design, develop, test, and organize custom APIs.
Raised $433,000,000.00 from Gokul Rajaram, Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Sahin Boydas, CRV, Coatue, Girish Mathrubootham, Bond and Junipero Capital.
Board Member
2021
Styra offers a platform that allows companies to enforce and monitor authorization policies across cloud-native applications.
Raised $54,000,000.00 from Accel, A.Capital Ventures, Cisco Investments, Battery Ventures, Capital One Ventures, Unusual Ventures and Citi Ventures.
Education
Investments
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