Vishy Venugopalan
Managing Partner at Weave Growth Partners
Vishy Venugopalan
Managing Partner at Weave Growth Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2021 - Current
Investing in profitable, tech-enabled business services and vertical market software. Value creation through better use of data, automation, digital transformation and growth playbooks.
Senior Vice President, Global Venture Investing
2016 - 2020
* Early- and growth-stage venture capital investment specialist. Deal sourcing, execution and portfolio company board observer. * Driving customer / partner relationships with Citi business units and Citi clients to connect them with portfolio companies and other relevant startups. * Investments sourced/involved with: Skan, Anvil, Flybits, Anaconda, Kinetica, DataRobot, Unbound Security * Additionally, observer for existing investments Datameer, Pepperdata, DB CyberTech & Ayasdi * Areas of focus--enterprise software: machine learning, artificial intelligence, Big Data, analytics, cybersecurity, cloud, enterprise software
Co-founder & VP, Product
2013 - 2016
* Chatbot platform for customer service, aimed at retailers looking to bridge the omnichannel customer experience. * Conceptualized idea based on Wharton research, led product development and sales operations. * Raised angel funding, and led an inside sales effort. Part of the Microsoft Ventures accelerator based out of Bangalore.
Associate (Part Time)
2012 - 2012
Created investment theses and sourced early-stage deals in the market segment of Big Data analytics.
Associate
2009 - 2011
* Sourced deals in enterprise software, with emphasis on virtualization, cloud computing, Big Data and mobile applications; deal structuring and due diligence on potential investments; supporting portfolio companies with special projects. * Executed four financing transactions. Three -- VKernel, Viewfinity, Symform -- have exited. The fourth, Nuodb, is still active.
Advisor
2008 - 2011
Helped founding team think through product and fundraising strategy
Enterprise Software Analyst
2007 - 2008
* Conducted briefings with executives of technology vendors and produced written competitive intelligence about the enterprise software industry for a senior executive audience, consisting of vendors, technology early adopters, venture capitalists and investment bankers. * Quoted extensively in the IT trade press as an expert in software development.
IT Associate
2004 - 2006
Advising application development groups in Morgan Stanley's multibillion dollar institutional business with regard to technology choices and best practices for enterprise development. Started a periodical technology newsletter for a community of 700 engineers. It received all-round praise and has since been expanded into more technology areas. Specified and implemented a proprietary, infoset-compliant binary XML format to improve efficiency of the messaging stack. Received 18 weeks of technical training, including Unix, C++, Java and Perl.