Seetharam Venkatesh
Investor at 8VC
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Investor
2021
Invest in early stage enterprise technology
8VC transform the technology infrastructure behind many industries.
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
Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support for Apache open-source software projects.
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.
Outlier offers analytic solutions that enable businesses to make better decisions.
Raised $37,858,765.00 from 11.2 Capital, Homebrew, SV Angel, Capital One Ventures, Emergence, First Round Capital, Susa Ventures and Ridge Ventures.
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.
Enveil is a privacy enhancing technology company that specializes in secure data usage, collaboration, and monetization services.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from Mastercard, C5 Capital, DataTribe, IQT, Cyber Mentor Fund, USAA, GC&H Investments, Capital One Ventures, 1843 Capital and Bloomberg Beta.
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.
Mesh Dynamics provides SaaS solutions for testing distributed services applications.
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.
Hazelcast is a real-time, intelligent application platform that enables enterprises to capture value otherwise missed.
Raised $63,584,000.00 from Comerica Bank’s Technology, C5 Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, EBRD Venture Capital, Bek Ventures, Capital One Ventures, KFW DEG, Bek Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and C5 Capital.
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.
Snowflake Ventures invests in growth-stage companies that demonstrate a commitment to mobilizing data.
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.