Ramu Arunachalam

General Partner

2014 - Current

A Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies. We have offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco. Select investments: Forward Networks (2014) Buoyant (2015) Styra: (2015) Notion Labs (2016) Armorblox (2017) Cyral (2018) Repl.it (2019)

Partner

2010 - 2014

Investing in Enterprise startups. Joined in 2010 as the first hire into the venture deal team. Representative investments: Databricks (Series A), Platfora (sold to Workday) Illumio (Series A) Pindrop Security (Series A) Apollo (fka Meteor) Mesosphere (Seed) Cumulus Networks (sold to Nvidia) Actifio (Series C)

Consultant

2010 - 2010

Product Management and Product Marketing for an early-stage startup

Product Management

2009 - 2010

• Responsible for road map planning and strategy for the Aster nCluster product series • Authored Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for a number of key features in the nCluster product series • Supported sales organizations with product, market and competitive information; designated product manager responsible for all accounts on the west and mid-west • Crafted joint value proposition with target markets and mutual success metrics for a key strategic partnership

Associate Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking

2007 - 2009

Senior Member Technical Staff

2002 - 2006

• Designed and Developed next-generation virtual switch infrastructure for the VMware ESX server. • Implemented software TCP offloading engine (TOE) for Windows virtual machines designed to alleviate virtualization overheads with high speed networking • Ported FreeBSD 4.9 TCP/IP stack for use in the VMware vmkernel to support VMotion, iSCSI and NFS • Performance enhancements to VMkernel TCP/IP • Shadow TCP/IP stack to unify Console OS and VMkernel networking traffic • Network drivers for VMware ESX

Software Engineer

1999 - 2002