Abhishek Shukla

Venture Capitalist ($7.5B Committed Capital) | Board Member | Company Builder | Engineer

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 53 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Aug 2026
Velaura AI, Inc. (formerly Auradine) is a leader in ultra-low power compute solutions for data center, edge and physical AI applications. Founded by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and technologists, the company combines deep technical expertise, proven IP and execution, and breakthrough silicon innovation. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
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Apr 2026
Scale your distributed applications, modernize your workflows for durability, and protect against software failures and downtimes with Orkes, the leading orchestration platform for developers. Orkes Cloud provides fully managed & security hardened clusters offering full compatibility with Open Source Conductor with enterprise features added. Write workflows as code, build task workers, integrate other applications with open source SDKs Scale to the billions, debug in minutes, observe everything Build durable execution flows driven by events Seamlessly weave in Large Language Models, Prompt Templates and Vector Database Integrations into your business workflows. Integrate and optimize human actions into your workflows Orkes is founded by ex-Netflix Engineers, original creators of Netflix Conductor OSS.
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Mar 2026
Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab dedicated to building next-generation AI infrastructure. Gimlet Cloud is an agentic inference cloud providing 10X faster tokens at industry-leading throughput per Watt. Gimlets fast inference cloud is ideal for companies looking to deliver high levels of interactivity for agentic and real-time use cases. Gimlet has built the industrys first multi-silicon cloud leveraging the power of GPUs, TPUs, and SRAM-centric accelerators to disaggregate inference across the most optimized hardware for each phase of inference.
Investor
Feb 2026
World Labs is a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. We aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds – both virtual and real – endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own. We believe that humans are innovative, curious, and creative; science and technology are both manifestations and drivers of these impulses. Propelling AI forward with spatial intelligence will also propel forward both individuals and humanity as a whole. Toward this goal, World Labs will develop spatially intelligent LWMs that can understand and reason about the 3D world from images and other modalities. Over time, we expect to train increasingly powerful models with broader capabilities that can be applied in a variety of domains, working alongside people. These are ambitious goals, so we are building an ambitious company to tackle them. Our team, led by co-founders Fei-Fei Li, PhD; Justin Johnson, PhD; Christoph Lassner, PhD; and Ben Mildenhall, PhD, has a strong research background, but we are not motivated by exploration for its own sake. Instead, we believe that now is a unique moment where rapid scientific progress has thinned the barrier between research and applications. We aim to seize this opportunity, focusing on the entire throughline from research to engineering to product to people. We are bringing together the most formidable slate of pixel talent ever assembled, creating a tight feedback loop between our spatially intelligent foundation models and products that will empower our users. We invite you to learn more about joining our fast-growing team.
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Jan 2026
Upscale AI helps ecommerce brands tap into the power of streaming TV and video for performance advertising.
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Jan 2026
Our mission is to architect AI that learns and interacts like humans. Try Sonic and Ink at https://play.cartesia.ai
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Jun 2025
Axiado is a leading hardware-anchored platform security solutions company deploying a novel, AI-driven approach to platform security against ransomware, supply chain, side-channel, and other cyberattacks in the growing ecosystem of cloud data centers, 5G networks, and other disaggregated compute networks. We offer a new processor called the Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU) that redefines security from the ground-up. Its hardware-anchored and AI-driven security technologies include Secure Vault root-of-trust/cryptography core and per-platform Secure AI pre-emptive threat detection engine.
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Apr 2025
TensorWave is an AMD-exclusive cloud platform designed specifically for AI workloads. Offering AMD MI300X, MI325X, and MI355X accelerators, TensorWave is a top-choice for training, fine-tuning, and inference. Visit tensorwave.com to learn more. Send us a message to try it for free.
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Feb 2025
Virtue AI sets the standard for advanced AI security platforms. Built on decades of foundational and award-winning research in AI security, its AI-native architecture unifies automated red-teaming, real-time multimodal guardrails, and policy-driven governance for enterprise agents, models, and apps. Virtue AI safeguards every MCP, input, and output—spanning text, code, image, video, and audio—in over 100 languages, detecting risks in sub-10 ms. Deploy in minutes across cloud, on-prem, or SaaS environments, or integrate directly with tools like ChatGPT and VS Code. With Virtue AI as your authenticated third-party partner, enterprises achieve unified visibility and assurance throughout the AI lifecycle—driving innovation without slowing performance.
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Jan 2025
Exostellar, Inc. is a next-generation cloud resource optimization and management platform that uses cutting-edge distributed container infrastructure as well as Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to help enterprises reduce spending in the cloud by up to 80%, while enhancing both operational security and performance We help enterprise companies achieve cloud optimizations and cost reductions without service interruptions. - Lower costs by up to 80% - No service interrupts, even for stateful applications - Support legacy applications without any modifications - Any cloud - AWS, google, Azure, VMWare, etc - Works for Kubernetes and cloud-native application containers - Reduce job completion time and improve customer experience
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Jan 2025
Semiconductor interconnects
Investor and Board
Dec 2024
NeuBird’s AI SRE Agent enables autonomous incident response, delivering real-time root cause analysis and corrective actions across your existing IT stack—cutting MTTR by up to 90% and giving engineers time back to build.
Investor
Nov 2024
Securiti is the pioneer of the DataAI Command Center, a centralized platform that enables the safe use of data and GenAI. It provides unified data intelligence, controls and orchestration across hybrid multicloud environments. Large global enterprises rely on Securitis Data Command Center for data security, privacy, governance, and compliance. Securiti has been recognized with numerous industry and analyst awards, including "Most Innovative Startup" by RSA, "Top 25 Machine Learning Startups" by Forbes, "Most Innovative AI Companies by CB Insights, "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner, and "Privacy Management Wave Leader by Forrester. For more information, please follow us on LinkedIn and visit Securiti.ai.
Investor and Board Observer
Nov 2024
We develop the foundational fabric devices and technologies for the age of AI and accelerated computing at scale.
Investor
Oct 2024
Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine platform technology with research-driven data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes. Snorkel led the development of Senior SWE-Bench and launched Open Benchmarks Grants with a $3 million commitment to support open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation research. Supported projects include Agents’ Last Exam, OSWorld 2.0, Terminal-Bench, Continual Learning Bench, and SlopCode Bench. Learn more at snorkel.ai or follow @SnorkelAI.
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Aug 2026
Velaura AI, Inc. (formerly Auradine) is a leader in ultra-low power compute solutions for data center, edge and physical AI applications. Founded by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and technologists, the company combines deep technical expertise, proven IP and execution, and breakthrough silicon innovation. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
Investor
Apr 2026
Scale your distributed applications, modernize your workflows for durability, and protect against software failures and downtimes with Orkes, the leading orchestration platform for developers. Orkes Cloud provides fully managed & security hardened clusters offering full compatibility with Open Source Conductor with enterprise features added. Write workflows as code, build task workers, integrate other applications with open source SDKs Scale to the billions, debug in minutes, observe everything Build durable execution flows driven by events Seamlessly weave in Large Language Models, Prompt Templates and Vector Database Integrations into your business workflows. Integrate and optimize human actions into your workflows Orkes is founded by ex-Netflix Engineers, original creators of Netflix Conductor OSS.
Investor
Mar 2026
Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab dedicated to building next-generation AI infrastructure. Gimlet Cloud is an agentic inference cloud providing 10X faster tokens at industry-leading throughput per Watt. Gimlets fast inference cloud is ideal for companies looking to deliver high levels of interactivity for agentic and real-time use cases. Gimlet has built the industrys first multi-silicon cloud leveraging the power of GPUs, TPUs, and SRAM-centric accelerators to disaggregate inference across the most optimized hardware for each phase of inference.
Investor
Feb 2026
World Labs is a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. We aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds – both virtual and real – endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own. We believe that humans are innovative, curious, and creative; science and technology are both manifestations and drivers of these impulses. Propelling AI forward with spatial intelligence will also propel forward both individuals and humanity as a whole. Toward this goal, World Labs will develop spatially intelligent LWMs that can understand and reason about the 3D world from images and other modalities. Over time, we expect to train increasingly powerful models with broader capabilities that can be applied in a variety of domains, working alongside people. These are ambitious goals, so we are building an ambitious company to tackle them. Our team, led by co-founders Fei-Fei Li, PhD; Justin Johnson, PhD; Christoph Lassner, PhD; and Ben Mildenhall, PhD, has a strong research background, but we are not motivated by exploration for its own sake. Instead, we believe that now is a unique moment where rapid scientific progress has thinned the barrier between research and applications. We aim to seize this opportunity, focusing on the entire throughline from research to engineering to product to people. We are bringing together the most formidable slate of pixel talent ever assembled, creating a tight feedback loop between our spatially intelligent foundation models and products that will empower our users. We invite you to learn more about joining our fast-growing team.
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Jan 2026
Upscale AI helps ecommerce brands tap into the power of streaming TV and video for performance advertising.
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