Chinnu Senthilkumar

Managing Partner @ Exfinity VC, AI, Deep Tech, B2B | Tech Executive @ SanDisk, TI, Intel

📍 Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Lead Investor & Board Member
Apr 2026
Optimized Electrotech Private Limited (OEPL) is an Indian Electro-Optics company making Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured (IDDM) Surveillance systems. The company was established in 2017 with a vision of creating a footprint in Indian Defence industry by providing cutting-edge solutions customized to India’s requirements. We build high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at Indias most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. Our vision is to become a global leader in providing Security solutions to National & International Defence and Aerospace organizations. The company envisages to become a player of reckoning in Homeland security, Defense Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance & Machine Vision.
Lead Investor & Board Advisor
Jun 2025
Enhance semiconductor design efficiency with our AI assistant, which shortens development cycles, reduces errors, and automates reviews, eliminating the need for expert oversight.
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2024
Ati Robotics makes autonomous electric vehicles for material movement in industrial environments like factories, warehouses, etc. Both indoor and outdoors.
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2024
GridRaster is a pioneering technology company transforming how industrial sectors leverage spatial computing and AI for automation, robotics, and digital twins. We recognized early on the transformative potential of XR, AI, and cloud technologies to enhance efficiency and productivity across the entire product life cycle—from design and assembly to manufacturing, training, and maintenance operations. Utilizing distributed edge computing, low-latency remote rendering, and 3D AI-driven spatial mapping, GridRasters cloud-based XR platform was developed in collaboration with large enterprise customers in the aerospace, automotive, and telecommunications industries. Our clientele includes the US Air Force, US Space Force, US Army, leading aerospace and space companies, and top telecommunications firms. GridRaster currently offers the following products: GridRaster Digital Twin Solution: A 3D scanning solution utilizing commercial off-the-shelf XR devices (such as HL2, iOS Tablet, iPhone Pro) to create 3D digital twins ten times faster and at a tenth of the cost, with millimeter accuracy. GridRaster Workspace: Provides an ultra-realistic virtual environment for multi-user real-time collaboration and dynamic XR simulations, powered by GridRasters high-fidelity, low-latency XR streaming capability. GridRaster AI-enabled XR Platform: A revolutionary product leveraging Spatial AI for advanced object recognition to identify and track objects in real-time. It enables millimeter-precision overlay of virtual assets on physical assets without markers, supporting use-cases like holographic quality inspection, automated defect/anomaly detection, and contextual overlay of work instructions in congested spaces. For more information, visit our website: GridRaster
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2023
We help AI Cloud providers launch their GPU-as-a-Service, by providing a hyperscaler grade GPU Cloud Management Software. With our software, users can order fully isolated bare metal and virtual machine instances on-demand using a self-service interface.
Lead Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2023
A scalable, cloud-controlled, and rare earth mineral free Hardware and Software platform for the Switched Reluctance Motor and other magnet free motor technologies.
Co-Lead Investor and Board Observer
Jul 2022
Our mission is to bring the power of Computer Vision to everyone; right from developers to the end users. Awiros is the conduit to bring the most cutting edge research in the areas of Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence to the market. Incorporated in 2015, Awiros is making it possible for everyone to build as well as utilize the most advanced applications of Computer Vision and AI in their everyday lives using its app-oriented open and unified Operating System model. With a stellar team of researchers and engineers, our constant endeavor is to push the boundaries of technology while delivering great value to our customer
Investor and Board Observer
Jul 2022
Qritive makes cancer diagnosis fast, cheap, and accurate. During our lifetime, 1 in 3 of us will get cancer. But cancer diagnosis is slow and expensive because doctors are not equipped with modern automated tools. Qritive provides an AI-powered solution to help doctors analyse both microscopy images and text from patient data. As a result, hospitals will be more efficient in making cancer diagnoses, allowing them to save costs.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Standing at the forefront of fighting climate change, we at Log9, are furthering India’s transition to a revolutionary, clean, and sustainable mobility and energy storage ecosystem by offering batteries that can be charged 9x faster, last 9x longer, and offer 9x higher performance and safety. A deep-tech start-up with the sole mission of Pioneering Responsible Energy, we are the only Indian company that holds in-house competencies in everything from electrode materials to cell fabrication to battery packs. Our portfolio of 80+ industry-defining patents further attests to our first principles thinking. Log9 culture depicts transparency, inclusiveness, empowerment, courage, and humility, and it is with this foundation that we enable our employees to unleash their potential. A 300+ members tribe, we are strongly determined to push tech boundaries and make way for a sustainable and more liveable world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d53pmPMvIuU
Investor and Board Advisor
Jul 2019
Delivering unrivaled edge AI solutions to accelerate and optimize real-time decision-making by powering smart edge devices and gateways that demand responsive AI computing at high energy efficiency. Kinara is headquartered in Silicon Valley with development based in Hyderabad, India. Our name comes from the Hindi word for ‘edge’ and reflects our commitment to our customers to build extremely innovative edge devices for retail, smart cities, industry 4.0, and automotive.
Board Member
Apr 2017
Pixis is a complete, AI-powered advertising solution helping consumer brands improve ad performance and streamline workflows.
Board Member
Apr 2017
Developed Tesseract, virtual reality head mount display enabling conversion of any of the existing econtent to stereoscopic side by side 3D view.
Board Observer
Apr 2016
Cato Digital offers a low cost, carbon free bare metal platform in all the right places!
Experience · 15 entries
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Investments (13)
Board (11)
2026
Lead Investor & Board Member
Apr 2026
Optimized Electrotech Private Limited (OEPL) is an Indian Electro-Optics company making Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured (IDDM) Surveillance systems. The company was established in 2017 with a vision of creating a footprint in Indian Defence industry by providing cutting-edge solutions customized to India’s requirements. We build high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at Indias most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. Our vision is to become a global leader in providing Security solutions to National & International Defence and Aerospace organizations. The company envisages to become a player of reckoning in Homeland security, Defense Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance & Machine Vision.
2025
Lead Investor & Board Advisor
Jun 2025
Enhance semiconductor design efficiency with our AI assistant, which shortens development cycles, reduces errors, and automates reviews, eliminating the need for expert oversight.
2024
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2024
Ati Robotics makes autonomous electric vehicles for material movement in industrial environments like factories, warehouses, etc. Both indoor and outdoors.
Investor & Board Member
Jul 2024
GridRaster is a pioneering technology company transforming how industrial sectors leverage spatial computing and AI for automation, robotics, and digital twins. We recognized early on the transformative potential of XR, AI, and cloud technologies to enhance efficiency and productivity across the entire product life cycle—from design and assembly to manufacturing, training, and maintenance operations. Utilizing distributed edge computing, low-latency remote rendering, and 3D AI-driven spatial mapping, GridRasters cloud-based XR platform was developed in collaboration with large enterprise customers in the aerospace, automotive, and telecommunications industries. Our clientele includes the US Air Force, US Space Force, US Army, leading aerospace and space companies, and top telecommunications firms. GridRaster currently offers the following products: GridRaster Digital Twin Solution: A 3D scanning solution utilizing commercial off-the-shelf XR devices (such as HL2, iOS Tablet, iPhone Pro) to create 3D digital twins ten times faster and at a tenth of the cost, with millimeter accuracy. GridRaster Workspace: Provides an ultra-realistic virtual environment for multi-user real-time collaboration and dynamic XR simulations, powered by GridRasters high-fidelity, low-latency XR streaming capability. GridRaster AI-enabled XR Platform: A revolutionary product leveraging Spatial AI for advanced object recognition to identify and track objects in real-time. It enables millimeter-precision overlay of virtual assets on physical assets without markers, supporting use-cases like holographic quality inspection, automated defect/anomaly detection, and contextual overlay of work instructions in congested spaces. For more information, visit our website: GridRaster
2023
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2023
We help AI Cloud providers launch their GPU-as-a-Service, by providing a hyperscaler grade GPU Cloud Management Software. With our software, users can order fully isolated bare metal and virtual machine instances on-demand using a self-service interface.
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