Dharmesh Thakker

General Partner at Battery Ventures - Supporting Early Founders building AI Infra and Apps

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 55 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United States50+ investments
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2026
Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity At SambaNova, were empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing. Our Mission To give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow. Our Technology We give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise. Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier. SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the worlds largest organizations. SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days. At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.
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2026
For decades companies have relied on archaic tools to inform decisions and make bets on the future. Until now. Fundamental empowers businesses to turn gambles into guarantees and determine their future with far greater accuracy than ever before. Built by DeepMind alumni and trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, NEXUS is our most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM). By revealing the hidden language of tables, NEXUS unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict™.
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2026
Inference is everything. Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring great AI products to market - fast. Our proprietary Inference Stack utilizes the cutting-edge of performance research combined with highly performant and reliable infrastructure to give you out-of-the-box global availability with 99.99% of uptime.
Board Member
2025
Trusted by enterprise and loved by advisors, Jump is the leading AI operating system for wealth managers and financial advisors. Advisors who use Jump are saving double-digit hours every week, uncovering revenue they didnt know existed, and running firms that scale without the usual friction. Get to know Meet | Grow | Operate today.
Board Observer
2025
ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. ClickHouse Cloud delivers the query speed and concurrency that applications demanding instant insight from large volumes of data require. As AI agents become more embedded in software, generating higher query volumes at tighter latency, ClickHouse provides a high-throughput, low-latency engine purpose-built for that workload.
Board Member
2025
The AI-first go-to-market technology platform that transforms growth into a science. Capture intent signals, run AI agents, and engage every prospect with personalized outbound in one system of action. Hundreds of the world’s most innovative sales, marketing and growth teams use Unify to power go-to-market. Today, Unify is generating pipeline for industry-leading companies like Airwallex, Cursor, Perplexity, Together AI, and Guru.
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2025
Tenzai is an AI-native cybersecurity company building cutting-edge AI hackers to ensure enterprises deliver unbreakable code. Its platform actively hacks, exploits, and helps fix vulnerabilities across enterprise software - continuously and at scale. Founded in 2025 by cybersecurity veterans Pavel Gurvich, Ariel Zeitlin, Ofri Ziv, Itamar Tal, and Aner Mazur, Tenzai has raised $75 million in seed funding from leading investors including Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures, and Lux Capital.
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2025
Full Stack Quantum Computing
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2025
Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. Our team previously built frontier LLMs at labs like DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic. We believe AI should be built in the open, with transparent research and collaborative development. That means giving enterprises, governments, and sovereign entities true ownership and control of AI that performs at the highest level. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.
Board Observer
2024
Nexthop AI is an infrastructure startup building the most efficient Al infrastructure for the worlds largest cloud operators. We are a cohesive team of seasoned industry experts, who through their collaborative product design as well as system and network engineering capabilities are leading the charge on disruptive technical innovation for AI and Cloud networking.
Board Member
2023
Opal is a modern, data-centric identity security platform. Our platform offers consolidated view and control of your whole ecosystem from on-prem to cloud and SaaS. Opal is backed by Greylock, Battery Ventures, and some of the top security experts around the world, including Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI).
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2023
Weaviate is a cloud-native, real-time vector database that allows you to bring your machine-learning models to scale. There are extensions for specific use cases, such as semantic search, plugins to integrate Weaviate in any application of your choice, and a console to visualize your data.
Board Member
2022
Normalyze is a pioneering provider of cloud data security solutions, helping customers secure their data, applications, identities, and infrastructure across hybrid cloud environments. With Normalyze, organizations can discover and visualize their data attack surface within minutes and get real-time visibility and control into their security posture, including access, configurations, and sensitive data to secure it at scale and prevent expensive data breaches. We are a team of dedicated, self-driven, self-managed engineers who value: * focus, commitment and pragmatism in our actions * honesty and integrity in all our interactions * efficiency, trustworthiness and excellence as a way of life We offer fully remote positions with competitive compensation, stock options, excellent health insurance and 401k.
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2022
Galileo is the leading platform for enterprise GenAI evaluation and observability. Our comprehensive suite of products support builders across the new AI development workflow—from fine-tuning LLMs to developing, testing, monitoring, and securing their AI applications. Each product is powered by our research-backed evaluation metrics. Today, Galileo is used by 100s of AI teams from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises, including Twilio, Comcast, and HP.
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2026
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2026
Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity At SambaNova, were empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing. Our Mission To give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow. Our Technology We give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise. Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier. SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the worlds largest organizations. SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days. At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.
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2026
For decades companies have relied on archaic tools to inform decisions and make bets on the future. Until now. Fundamental empowers businesses to turn gambles into guarantees and determine their future with far greater accuracy than ever before. Built by DeepMind alumni and trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, NEXUS is our most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM). By revealing the hidden language of tables, NEXUS unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict™.
Investor
2026
Inference is everything. Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring great AI products to market - fast. Our proprietary Inference Stack utilizes the cutting-edge of performance research combined with highly performant and reliable infrastructure to give you out-of-the-box global availability with 99.99% of uptime.
2025
Board Member
2025
Trusted by enterprise and loved by advisors, Jump is the leading AI operating system for wealth managers and financial advisors. Advisors who use Jump are saving double-digit hours every week, uncovering revenue they didnt know existed, and running firms that scale without the usual friction. Get to know Meet | Grow | Operate today.
Board Observer
2025
ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. ClickHouse Cloud delivers the query speed and concurrency that applications demanding instant insight from large volumes of data require. As AI agents become more embedded in software, generating higher query volumes at tighter latency, ClickHouse provides a high-throughput, low-latency engine purpose-built for that workload.
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