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Varun Jain
General Partner at SE Ventures
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Varun Jain is the Founding General Partner at SE Ventures, focusing on investing in Climate and Industrial SaaS companies, with a strong track record in venture capital, due diligence, and deal sourcing. His career highlights include leading SE Ventures and serving on the boards of companies like Augury and AiDash, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting innovative startups in the tech sector.
Work Experience
Founding General Partner
2019 - Current
SE Ventures is a $1.1B AUM specialist VC fund backed by Schneider Electric and focused on software-centric early growth deals in climate and industrial tech. Learn more at https://www.seventures.com
SE Ventures is a $1B+ global venture capital fund backed by Schneider Electric.
Board Member
2021
#1 AI-enabled production health platform for process manufacturing.
Augury provides machine health diagnostics designed to help reduce downtime and increase supply chain resilience.
Raised $294,000,000.00 from Munich Re Ventures, Insight Partners, Lerer Hippeau, Baker Hughes, Eclipse Ventures, Qumra Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and SE Ventures.
Investor
2022
#1 cloud-based rebate management platform. Rapidly becoming the core data fabric for B2B transactions.
Enable is a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management.
Raised $276,000,000.00 from Gaingels.
Board Member
2022
#1 AI-enabled climate risk management platform for utilities. Rapidly expanding into all types of distributed long-range infrastructure.
Making critical infrastructure industries climate resilient and sustainable with satellite-first AI applications.
Raised $91,500,000.00 from G2 Venture Partners, SE Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP), Benhamou Global Ventures, Shell Ventures, Duke Investments LLC, Marubeni, Edison International, Sabancı Holding and Lightrock.
Investor
2024
First Street is a climate risk data platform that enables financial services, government and corporate entities to analyze the future impact of climate events on their physical assets.
Investor
2023
AI-enabled quality and yield improvement platform for discrete manufacturing.
Investor
2021
Leading Generative AI based co-pilot for automating customer service operations.
Aquant is an enterprise AI platform that uses machine learning to learn the enterprise's unique language and maximize equipment uptime.
Raised $115,550,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pitango VC, 2050 Capital, ClalTech, Insight Partners, Angular Ventures, Qumra Capital and SE Ventures.
Board Member
2021
Financing solutions for renewable projects in the C&I market.
Unlocking financing for clean energy solutions by underwriting credit risk for unrated or below investment grade organizations.
Raised $11,440,000.00 from Greensoil PropTech Ventures, SE Ventures, MS&AD Ventures, Congruent Ventures and MUUS Climate Partners.
Board Member
2020
No-code MES platform for small and medium size factories. Helping large enterprises to digitize their supplier base and improve quality and traceability.
Pico MES develops a manufacturing execution system designed for factory and machinery control.
Raised $18,569,999.00 from Counterpart Ventures, Union Labs Ventures, Momenta, Congruent Ventures, SE Ventures, Bosch Ventures and Lemnos VC.
Board Member
2019
Computer vision platform for edge devices with a strong focus on safety and security use cases.