Seetharam Venkatesh

Co-Founder

2024 - Current

Investor

2021

Invest in early stage enterprise technology

Angel Investor & Startup Advisor

2020

Investor in or advisor to great companies including Sync Computing, Polymer Search, InfraHQ, PraxiData, Macheye, Arpio, Resemble, DeepIQ, Morphient, among others.

Apache Member, Mentor, Committer/PMC on various projects

2013

* Ideated and incubated Apache Falcon and helped graduate to a top-level project * Ideated and incubated Apache Atlas and helped graduate to a top-level project

Investor - Series A

2019 - 2020

The status quo in analytics is "What you ask is what you get" largely driven by humans in exploring and shaping data. Outlier is a new way of thinking about business intelligence. Instead of creating new dashboards or running queries, Outlier watches all of the business data and lets users know when unexpected things are happening, anywhere in the myriad metrics and dimensions of the enterprise data.

Investor - Series A

2019 - 2020

Data privacy and security are fundamental to the future of data analysis and computing. Enveil, founded by former NSA engineers, has developed a product that allows for privacy-compliant analysis on private data sources with zero exposure to the underlying data.

Investor - Series Seed

2018 - 2020

Mesh Dynamics offers a “WYSIWYG Canarying” solution inspired by systems built at Google and Facebook. It aims to build a fast, automated way to test applications comprehensively for functional and operational quality before deployment to production by eliminating testing in favor of “live canarying” a small fraction of user traffic from production vastly improving velocity as well quality.

Investor, Board Observer

2017 - 2020

There has been a tectonic shift to real-time and low latency as part of Digital transformation. Hazelcast is a leading in-memory data grid solution and was a highly strategic investment for C1.

Investor

2017 - 2020

Snowflake is the first fully relational SQL data warehouse built specifically for the cloud. Snowflake is unique with its on-the-fly elasticity, multi-cluster, scale-out approach, separating compute from storage. Their automatic concurrency scaling, a major challenge in database scale-out, is a single logical virtual warehouse composed of multiple compute clusters split across availability zones.

Investor - Series A

2017 - 2020

We have come a long way from SQL (ACID, no scale), to NoSQL (Scale, No ACID) to NewSQL (ACID + Scale). Fauna is a Serverless database in this space that is globally consistent (ACID), highly scalable, and performant.