Arun Ramamoorthy

Early Stage Investor, Mentor, Advisor | Founding Partner, Z5 Capital

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Seed Investor @ Tala Security
Oct 2017
Tala prevents client-side attacks like Magecart, XSS, code injections and session re-directs. Our innovative solution is designed to secure customer data and ensure data privacy, without degrading site performance or top-line revenue. Tala's technology automates policy generation, deployment and maintenance of powerful web standards, including CSP, SRI, Feature Policy, Referrer Policy, HSTS and others. Tala also leverages JavaScript virtualization synthetically to prevent unauthorized data access or leakage. This innovative combination of capabilities ensures attacks are prevented in real-time, data privacy and integrity is assured and the need for costly and continuous administration or incident response is minimized. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs. We are backed by an impressive collection of well-known tech investors, angels, former executives at Symantec and by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our technology has garnered multiple awards including being named a Gartner Cool Vendor and an RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist.
Seed Investor @ Allyo
2016
AllyO has been acquired by HireVue, the global leader in virtual interviewing and assessments technology, to accelerate high-volume hiring with conversational ai and recruiting automation. The addition of AllyO’s conversational AI to better engage candidates 24/7 with HireVue’s assessments and video interviewing solution to find the right people and fight bias forms a comprehensive solution that will solve today’s most pressing talent acquisition challenges. Follow along at www.linkedin.com/company/hirevue for the latest in TA trends and HR technology. *This account is no longer actively monitored
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2019
Founding Partner
2019
We are a seed stage VC fund based in Palo Alto, CA investing in visionary entrepreneurs building enterprise startups.
2017
Seed Investor @ Tala Security
Oct 2017
Tala prevents client-side attacks like Magecart, XSS, code injections and session re-directs. Our innovative solution is designed to secure customer data and ensure data privacy, without degrading site performance or top-line revenue. Tala's technology automates policy generation, deployment and maintenance of powerful web standards, including CSP, SRI, Feature Policy, Referrer Policy, HSTS and others. Tala also leverages JavaScript virtualization synthetically to prevent unauthorized data access or leakage. This innovative combination of capabilities ensures attacks are prevented in real-time, data privacy and integrity is assured and the need for costly and continuous administration or incident response is minimized. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs. We are backed by an impressive collection of well-known tech investors, angels, former executives at Symantec and by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our technology has garnered multiple awards including being named a Gartner Cool Vendor and an RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist.
2016
Seed Investor @ Allyo
2016
AllyO has been acquired by HireVue, the global leader in virtual interviewing and assessments technology, to accelerate high-volume hiring with conversational ai and recruiting automation. The addition of AllyO’s conversational AI to better engage candidates 24/7 with HireVue’s assessments and video interviewing solution to find the right people and fight bias forms a comprehensive solution that will solve today’s most pressing talent acquisition challenges. Follow along at www.linkedin.com/company/hirevue for the latest in TA trends and HR technology. *This account is no longer actively monitored
2006
General Partner
Jan 2006
Pinnacle Ventures is a private venture capital fund focused on providing debt and equity financing to early-stage companies across information technology, cleantech and healthcare. Pinnacle differentiates itself through the strength and diversity of its team, its creative and flexible financing alternatives and its unique approach to helping its portfolio companies achieve success.