Karthee Madasamy

Early Stage deep tech VC @ MFV Partners and Harper Court Ventures | ex-MD, Qualcomm Ventures

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
15
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5
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2021
Ati Robotics makes autonomous electric vehicles for material movement in industrial environments like factories, warehouses, etc. Both indoor and outdoors.
Investor
2021
Akridata leads the way in data-centric AI solutions, transforming the way businesses handle data. Our no-code turnkey platform sets new technological industry benchmarks, allowing our clients to process their data faster and at a lower cost. Our clients use the platform to smartly ingest complex data from edge devices, leveraging the metadata to route and place it across their infrastructure. The process optimizes their cloud footprint, and allows their data scientist teams to access the newly acquired information even weeks faster than before. Furthermore, the platform visualizes the data, providing quick outlier identification, efficient image or text based search, various sampling options, and much more. All this is done intuitively and interactively, which leads to faster and more precise data curation than before. Finally, the platform allows for model accuracy evaluation, providing insights to accelerate model improvements and eliminating wasted training cycles. The benefits of partnering with Akridata are evident: we enhance your data science team’s efficiency in training deep learning computer vision models, drastically cut training dataset costs with up to 80% savings, and accelerate the journey to model production. Join our clients, partners and us, as we focus on the data.
Investor
2020
Industrial humanoids hard at work.
Investor
2020
Terret is the leading provider of AI Revenue Agents for sales, account management, and CS teams. Terret’s Virtual Revenue Fleet drives productivity across the full revenue cycle. From generating forecasts and automating the sales process to researching accounts and building mutual action plans, leading companies rely on Terret to grow revenue while reducing GTM expenses.
Investor
2019
Rescale’s cloud platform for modeling & simulation and applied AI accelerates product development and discovery for any organization. Enterprises use Rescale’s compute, data, and AI solutions to accelerate discovery and engineering breakthroughs. Rescale has been recognized globally as the industry leading platform providing cutting edge AI solutions, the broadest selection of over 1,000 R&D software applications, and the largest global infrastructure footprint of 100s of advanced computing architectures. Leveraged by a majority of Fortune 500 companies to accelerate time to market, Rescale has been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Cloud Infrastructure, by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company, and by the World Economic Forum as a Global Innovator Unicorn. We are located in San Francisco and work with users in the aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences, construction, marine, consumer products, and manufacturing industries. For more info sales@rescale.com
Investor
2019
Quantum computing will be a world-changing technology with the potential to unlock powerful advances in medicine, energy, finance and beyond. At PsiQuantum, we’re focused on building the world’s first useful quantum computer. A useful quantum computer requires at least 1,000,000 qubits and error correction. We believe photonics is the only path to building a useful quantum computer. Our team at PsiQuantum is a mix of quantum physicists, semiconductor, systems, and software engineers, system architects and more. Error correction is at the centre of everything we do; and we focus on solving real-world problems. If you’re interested in joining our team, we are always open to hearing from exceptional people interested in working on one of the defining technologies of our lifetime.
Board Observer
2018
Twenty Billion Neurons (TwentyBN) is an AI startup that builds intelligent avatars that are redefining the way AI interacts with humans. Having built the world's first A.I. avatar, named Millie, that can see, understand, and interact with consumers in real time, TwentyBN is offering a range of life-sized, intelligent avatars that can assume various roles, including greeter, brand ambassador, personal trainer, office assistant and more. To learn more about how intelligent avatars can strengthen your customer relationships, please visit our website (20bn.com) or come visit us in person at one of our offices in Berlin and Toronto!
Investor
2018
Welcome to SUN Mobility, where we aim to make electric vehicles affordable and accessible to all. SUN Mobility is a joint venture between the Maini Group and SUN Group -co-founded by Chetan Maini, founder of India’s first electric car company, Reva, and Uday Khemka, Vice Chairman of the SUN Group. At SUN Mobility, we believe electric vehicles are the future of mobility, and we aim to accelerate the adoption of electric mobility with our innovative battery swapping technology. Our technology is designed to be universally interoperable across various vehicle platforms and form factors, making it future-proof, sustainable and highly scalable. With our state-of-the art Smart Batteries and vast network of IoT-enabled Swap Points, EV charging times and range anxiety are a thing of the past. Our unique approach of separating the batteries from vehicles through the battery subscription model addresses key issues such as high upfront cost, range anxiety and long charging times. Our battery swapping services are not only faster and more convenient than traditional EV charging, but they are also better for the planet. With collaborations and partnerships spanning the best of the industry’s vehicle manufacturers, battery cell technology providers, fleet operators, ride-sharing players and last-mile transport operators, we are proud to be at the forefront of the EV revolution. Join us on our journey towards a clean, green, and sustainable future for us all.
Investor
2018
Analog Inference is revolutionizing neural computing. Founded by veterans of the computing industry and backed by Khosla ventures. The company is currently developing its first generation of products. Investors and advisors also include Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems), Pradeep Sindhu (co-founder of Juniper Networks), and Atiq Raza (CEO of Raza Microelectronics), and Ajit Medhekar (Entrepreneur and Angel Investor).
Board Observer
2014
Portea is a leading home healthcare pioneer and the fastest growing provider of in-home medical care in India Visit us: www.portea.com Bangalore: 1800 121 2323 (Toll Free) - India We are Operational In : Bangalore | Chennai | Delhi I Gurgaon I Ghaziabad | Faridabad I Mumbai | Pune | Hyderabad I Jaipur I Ahmedabad I Kolkata I Chandigarh
Board Observer
2010
Waze is where people and technology meet to solve transportation challenges. Its a platform that empowers communities to contribute road data and edit Waze maps to improve the way we move about the world. Thanks to Wazers everywhere, Waze is able to partner with municipalities and transit authorities to reduce traffic and congestion—leveraging current infrastructure while impacting city planning. For more information, or to download the Waze app, please visit www.waze.com
Board Observer
2009
Founded in 2012, Capillary Technologies offers end-to-end loyalty programs, a comprehensive view of consumers and unified, cross-channel strategies that deliver a real-time omnichannel, personalized, and consistent experience for customers. With a presence across the United States, India, Middle East, and South East Asia, Capillary powers a diversified product suite of end-to-end loyalty programs across 30+ countries, working with 250+ brands including Asics, Puma, Tata, Shell, Fossil, Sephora, Jotun and Dominos Pizza and many more from verticals such as apparel, footwear, supermarkets, conglomerates, manufacturing and electronics, pharmacy and wellness, fine dining and QSR, luxury, entertainment, oil and gas, travel and hospitality. With a massive reach of 875 million+ consumers and processing 1.97 billion+ transactions, Capillary Technologies’ promoter i.e., Capillary Technologies International Pte. Ltd. has the backing of Swanland Investment ltd. (an affiliate of Warburg Pincus), Sequoia Capital India Growth Fund II Ltd., Avataar Ventures Partners I, and Filter Capital Fund I Ltd.
Board Observer
2007
Tessolve offers a unique combination of pre-silicon and post-silicon expertise to provide an efficient turnkey solution for silicon bring-up, spec to the product. With 2500+ employees worldwide, Tessolve provides a one-stop-shop solution with full-fledged hardware and software capabilities, including its advanced silicon and system testing labs. Tessolve offers a Turnkey ASIC Solution, from design to packaged parts. Tessolve’s design services include solutions on advanced process nodes with a healthy eco-system relationship with EDA, IP, and foundries. Our front-end design strengths integrated with the knowledge from the backend flow, allows Tessolve to catch design flaws ahead in the cycle, thus reducing expensive re-design costs, and risks. We are actively investing in the R&D centre of excellence initiatives such as 5G, mmWave, Silicon photonics, HSIO, HBM/HPI, system-level test, and others. Tessolve also offers end-to-end product design services in the embedded domain from concept to manufacturing under an ODM model with application expertise in Avionics, Automotive, Industrial and Medical segments. Tessolve’s Embedded Engineering services enable customers a faster time-to-market through deep domain expertise, innovative ideas, diverse embedded hardware & software services, and built-in infrastructure with world-class lab facilities. Tessolve’s clientele includes Tier 1 clients across multiple market segments, 7 of the top 10 semiconductor companies, start-ups, and government entities. We have a global presence with office locations in the United States, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, United Kingdom, China, UK, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, and Test Labs in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Austin, San Jose.
Board Observer
2006
Headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensors with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility. Validity’s patented LiveFlex® fingerprint sensor technology enables authentication, mobile payments, and touch-based navigation for applications ranging from invisible, under-glass sensors for smartphones; buttons for handsets and tablets; and the world’s thinnest palm-rest designs for Ultrabook™ computers.
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2021
Ati Robotics makes autonomous electric vehicles for material movement in industrial environments like factories, warehouses, etc. Both indoor and outdoors.
Investor
2021
Akridata leads the way in data-centric AI solutions, transforming the way businesses handle data. Our no-code turnkey platform sets new technological industry benchmarks, allowing our clients to process their data faster and at a lower cost. Our clients use the platform to smartly ingest complex data from edge devices, leveraging the metadata to route and place it across their infrastructure. The process optimizes their cloud footprint, and allows their data scientist teams to access the newly acquired information even weeks faster than before. Furthermore, the platform visualizes the data, providing quick outlier identification, efficient image or text based search, various sampling options, and much more. All this is done intuitively and interactively, which leads to faster and more precise data curation than before. Finally, the platform allows for model accuracy evaluation, providing insights to accelerate model improvements and eliminating wasted training cycles. The benefits of partnering with Akridata are evident: we enhance your data science team’s efficiency in training deep learning computer vision models, drastically cut training dataset costs with up to 80% savings, and accelerate the journey to model production. Join our clients, partners and us, as we focus on the data.
2020
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2020
Industrial humanoids hard at work.
Investor
2020
Terret is the leading provider of AI Revenue Agents for sales, account management, and CS teams. Terret’s Virtual Revenue Fleet drives productivity across the full revenue cycle. From generating forecasts and automating the sales process to researching accounts and building mutual action plans, leading companies rely on Terret to grow revenue while reducing GTM expenses.
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