Shri Ganeshram

Advisor

2022 - Current

Mortgage as a service platform.

Seed Investor

2014

I was the first investor in Eaze. Fresh VC led Eaze's seed round. We went on to invest in multiple rounds following.

SVP Technology & Data / Founding Team

2015 - 2019

I led the 50+ person Product and Engineering team at Eaze (encompasses Product, Engineering, Analytics, and IT). Earlier during my time at Eaze, I had the opportunity to build and lead our highly analytical Growth, Lifecycle Marketing, Driver Operations, and Supply Chain teams. Over the 4 years I had overseen the Growth and Analytics teams, we had grown from $3M in GTV to $250M in GTV and had scaled our operations and driver supply (Supply Growth) to support that. I also built EazeMD with an engineer (the product that catapulted our growth toward $100M GMV) and I kicked off our original brand partnerships strategy which evolved into advertising revenue streams for the business and a key competitive advantage from a selection and pricing standpoint. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have made a great impact on the company and our mission over the 5 years I spent there—learned so much from the experience. What a ride! eaze (eaze.com), the leading technology company serving the cannabis industry, is on a mission to help people enjoy the moment through convenient access to legal, high quality marijuana products. Launched in 2014, the company’s technology enables superior customer choice and convenience by connecting marijuana product brands, dispensaries and doctors to customers on demand. With over 300,000 customers in California, eaze has unprecedented access to aggregate data regarding cannabis market trends and consumer preferences which it shares with industry and media partners through its eaze Insights Program. eaze has raised over $200m from investors such as DCM Ventures, Bailey Capital, Fresh VC, and 500 Startups, and is one of the first tech companies to receive large scale institutional investment in the cannabis industry. eaze currently works with legal dispensaries that serve California cities across the Bay Area, parts of Los Angeles County, Orange County and San Diego County.

Managing Partner & Founder

2013

Fresh VC is no longer actively making investments in new portfolio companies. Brian and I still advise companies in our portfolio, manage our active investments, and sometimes syndicate investments into our existing portfolio. Fresh VC is a micro VC fund started by Shri Ganeshram and Brian Sheng. Fresh VC primarily invests in seed stage technology startups. The Fresh VC portfolio includes high growth companies like Eaze, Fiscal Note, Radar, Akido Labs, Eight Sleep, and Aptible.

DJ / Music Producer

1994

soundcloud.com/shri-bear Music is a passion and hobby of mine. I grew up playing the violin, viola, and euphonium. Since then, I've developed a deep love for electronic music. I produce tunes in Logic and have DJ'd at a number of amazing venues: - DISTRIKT, Discow, MAXA, Headspace, and more at Burning Man - Superior Ingredients & Musica in New York - Public Works, Great Northern, Monarch, The Midway, Audio, and more in San Francisco - Concourse Project in Austin - El Ganzo in Cabo - Future Factory in Los Angeles

Seed Investor

2015

I was one of the first investors in Akido Labs. Followed on in the Series A.

Seed Investor

2013

Seed Investor

2014

Seed Investor

2015

Seed Investor

2014

Seed Investor

2014