Raghuram Madabushi
Director, NG Partners at National Grid
Raghuram Madabushi
Director, NG Partners at National Grid
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director, NG Partners
2020 - Current
National Grid Partners is the utility industry’s first Silicon Valley-based VC & innovation firm. NGP invests in the potential of energy with a provocative vision to define a smarter and more renewable energy future. My mandate for early stage (Seed, A, B) is around SW and hardware to decarbonize and electrify energy infrastructure, transportation, buildings, and other related end markets. Investments / Boards / Advisory: AccuKnox: https://accuknox.com/ Leap: https://leap.energy/ Baffle.io: https://baffle.io/ Sync Computing: https://synccomputing.com/ AptEdge: https://www.aptedge.io/ Omnidian: https://www.omnidian.com/ Visionary.ai: https://www.visionary.ai/
Co-Founder, Genesis Member
2022 - 2023
VC3 DAO brings together a vetted network of venture professionals, starting with the Kauffman Fellows, to invest in Web3 companies and funds through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structure.
Kauffman Fellow (24)
2019 - 2022
The Kauffman Fellowship is one of the world’s premier innovation, leadership, and venture capital focused programs, offering an unrivaled environment of excellence, an exceptionally flourishing global network, and a highly captivating curriculum.
Senior Director, SRI Ventures
2018 - 2020
We invest in industry-leading ventures that change the world. SRI has been dubbed “Spin-Off City” for our track record of capitalizing on breakthrough technologies. We adhere to a disciplined, repeatable approach to value creation that’s enabled us to establish and launch more than 60 ventures with a total market capitalization exceeding $20 billion. We focus on areas involving hard technology, bringing game-changing companies to market. Investments / Board: Averatech (http://www.averatekcorp.com/) Passio (https://www.passiolife.com/) LatentAI (http://latentai.com/) Sensar Systems (https://www.sensarsystems.com/) Vitrina (https://vdovitrina.com/)
Director, GE Ventures
2017 - 2018
More Than Just A Capital Partner GE Ventures provides unrivaled access to a global network of GE expertise and resources. We partner and invest in the best ideas within Software, Healthcare, Energy and Advanced Manufacturing. We partner with startups to accelerate growth and commercialize innovative ideas in software & analytics, healthcare, energy and advanced manufacturing that will help drive better outcomes for our customers and society. The New Business Creation team's mandate: We are innovation accelerators, spotting new trends and creating new opportunities that drive growth for our partners and GE. Investments / Board / Advisory: Menlo Microsystems (https://www.menlomicro.com) iDX (http://www.idxbeta.com) Authenticiti (https://authenticiti.io) Giggso (https://www.giggso.com)
Senior Director
2016 - 2017
The Linux Foundation partners with the world's leading developers and companies to solve the hardest technology problems and accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. The Linux Foundation's projects are harnessing the power of open source development to fuel innovation at unmatched speed and scale. The Linux Foundation Projects use open source governance best practices, including license and contribution agreement choices, in keeping with the ideals of Linux. Helped manage a portfolio of collaborative open-source technology projects spanning a wide variety of areas including, cloud, networking, security, compute infrastructure, automotive, digital commerce, and IoT.
Co Founder
2014 - 2016
* Wearables: Hydration, Air Quality * Sensors * Quantified Self Product, Customer, Biz Development. (Acquired by Aclima)
Director & Head, Incubation and New Ventures, IDFStart
2013 - 2016
Startup incubation and investments into new ventures spanning consumer electronics, wearables, deep data science analytics, IoT, semiconductor ICs, and consumer wellness. Investments / Board / Advisory: Retrace Inc. (acquired); MCLogic Inc.; Sublime Washing Inc.
Assistant Director, Monetization Group
2011 - 2013
Developed the IP/Patent asset acquisition, development, monetization, and portfolio marketing strategy for the SW silo.
Senior Analyst, Portfolio Development Group
2009 - 2011
Managed investments for the ~$250M SW portfolio (as part of the ~$750M IDF Fund) with concentration in Tech/Media/Telecom leading to coverage in areas including: Multi-core Computing, Augmented Reality, Ubiquitous Computing, Big Data, Mobile Computing, eCommerce/Gaming, and Datacenter Management/Cloud Computing.
Equity Research Associate
2008 - 2009
Coverage of Digital Media Semiconductor equities (DGII, DIOD, DLB, ONNN, RFMI, RMTR, SIGM, SUPX, SYNA, TRID, TUNE, VLTR, ZRAN).
Equity Research Associate
2006 - 2008
Coverage of Internet e-commerce equities (AMZN, EBAY, OSTK, LQDT, GSIC, DSCM, DRIV, SFLY) and Interactive Entertainment equities (ERTS, ATVI, THQI).
Education
Private Equity and Venture Capital
2015 - 2015
MBA
2004 - 2006
MS
1996 - 1997
BE
1990 - 1994