Rajesh Swaminathan

Partner

2020 - Current

Assisting entrepreneurs and managing investments across EV batteries, hydrogen, solar, grid storage, sustainable plastics, carbon capture, industrial chemicals, foodtech, healthcare – focusing on materials science driven innovations that have a large societal impact.

Head of Applied Ventures

2018 - 2020

Managed a portfolio of deeptech startups across 13 countries in over 85 companies. Invested in deep-tech/ hardware startups across Climatech (solar, batteries, windows ..), Semiconductors, AI, Life Sciences. Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials.

Investment Director

2015 - 2018

Investment Manager

2009 - 2015

Sr Associate

2008 - 2009

Investment focus in Cleantech and Semis. Key Investments: EnPhase energy, R2 Semiconductor

Consultant

2007 - 2008

Investment Banking

2007 - 2007

IPO on Renesola, a solar wafer materials Co. M&A transactions in Cleantech

Lead - Emerging Technologies

2001 - 2006

Drove the technical assessment of several Optical, MEMS, RF device startups and established successful partnerships with many. Led the design for reliability program for Lucent’s 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s telecommunication systems and supported the successful deployment of these systems globally.