Manoj 'MJ' Ramachandran

Partner at Sprout & Oak | Early Stage Enterprise Software VC | Previously at Forgepoint Capital, LendingClub, and AGC Partners

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Investor
2026
Theres a gap in every industrial, manufacturing and field services company. Between the document chaos — invoices, engineering drawings, inspection photos, regulatory files — and the structured output the business needs to operate. That gap is filled by people. Good people doing work a machine should do. Not because they havent tried to fix it. Because nothing could handle the complexity. Until now. Corvic automates that workflow. Documents, images, and data in any format. Your exact output. In production in 30 days. FDA dossiers from 3 weeks to 2 days. 20,000 invoices a month, fully automated. P&I diagrams into engineering knowledge graphs. Stop doing manually what a machine should do. → corvic.ai
Investor
2025
Databahn.ai is redefining how enterprises manage the explosion of security and operational data in the AI era. Our AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform helps organizations securely collect, enrich, orchestrate, and optimize enterprise data—including security, application, observability, and IoT/OT telemetry—for analytics, automation, and AI. With native support for over 500 integrations and built-in enrichment capabilities, Databahn streamlines fragmented data workflows and reduces SIEM and infrastructure costs from day one. The platform requires no specialist training, enabling security and IT teams to extract insights in real time and adapt quickly to new demands. Weve helped Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies reduce data processing costs by over 60% and automate more than 80% of their data engineering workloads. Our founding team brings decades of experience in cybersecurity and infrastructure, having previously managed environments ingesting more than 12 petabytes of data per day. That deep domain expertise informs our bold, opinionated approach to solving one of the biggest pain points in enterprise infrastructure: how to unify and act on fragmented, fast-growing data streams. Purpose-built for scale, speed, and simplicity, Databahn replaces patchwork stacks with a single intuitive solution that accelerates time to value and turns security data from a cost center into a strategic asset.
Investor
2024
As cyber threats advance, so must our defense strategies. At SurgSecure, we don’t just adapt—we lead. At SurgSecure, we provide comprehensive security solutions that span data, applications, cloud, identity, network, and endpoints, ensuring robust protection for your business. We design, implement, and maintain scalable solutions that reduce implementation time by 50%. Our expert team conducts thorough security assessments to identify vulnerabilities and crafts customized strategies to meet your unique business needs. What We Offer? --> Expert Security Assessments --> Seamless Technology Integration --> Future-Proof Security --> Reduced Time & Cost Why Choose SurgSecure? --> Implement standardized business processes --> Ensure zero application integration gaps --> Secure leadership buy-in How We Help You Achieve Your Goals? --> Provide a High Degree of Cyber & Enterprise Resiliency --> Protect all corporate assets from cyber threats. --> Eliminate product overlaps that exist across most enterprises. --> Reduce complexity. --> Verify, design, and implement Security controls and compliance. --> Adopt AI Solutions to accelerate delivery and enable market-leading sustainment services using AI tools and solutions. From expert assessments to seamless technology integration, we deliver unmatched security that adapts as your business grows, providing future-proof solutions. Our proven methodologies prevent ransomware attacks and ensure uninterrupted operations, helping you achieve your business goals with confidence. We stand as a leader in the industry, committed to delivering top-tier cybersecurity solutions that safeguard enterprise value and build cyber resilience. Fortify your business with unmatched security and seamless integrations with SurgSecure. Send us a DM!
Investor
2024
AI agents are transforming the workforce, but they also bring massive risks like exposing your most sensitive data. In just 5 minutes, Aiceberg becomes the guardian agent that oversees all Ai traffic, enforces policies, and prevents harm to your enterprise.
Investor
2024
Our Mission: Prevent Human Related Incidents. Welcome to Quilr! A first of its kind in-line AI security Protection built to proactively assist users only when they are about to create a Security incident. (Think of it like your cars collision assist technology) With all the recents attacks and technological advancements we all understand that Humans have become the new attack surface. Quilr aims to provide a holistic 2 prong approach to solving this problem. First part includes providing complete visibility into your human risk posture everything from SaaS apps to Password hygiene to Social Engineering and more. Second part includes a Proactive AI assist that can tell a user if they are about to do something that might cause an incident. Incase this interests you please reach out to us on info@quilr.ai
Board Member
Sep 2022
LoginRadius is an API-driven identity platform designed to simplify the implementation of enterprise-grade features like Authentication, Authorization, Identity Verification, and User Management. Our products like Single Sign-On (SSO), Adaptive MFA, Passkeys, Fine-Grained Security Controls, Private Cloud, and Regulatory Compliances can be deployed in minutes (not months). Developers can integrate LoginRadius into their web and mobile apps with open-source SDKs, customizable login interfaces, and low-code Identity Orchestration capabilities, all designed for zero to minimal coding, along with real-time event-driven integrations via webhooks.
Investor
Sep 2022
AppMap is a runtime code analysis tool for developers in the code editor and CI. AppMap compares code behavior before and after a code change and identifies hard-to-find performance, security, and stability issues before merging / prod. Check out our first-of-its-kind behavioral ‘diff’ for every code change against the main branch.
Investor
Dec 2021
TruEra provides AI Quality solutions to help enterprises analyze machine learning, improve model quality and build trust. Powered by enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explainability technology based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, TruEra’s suite of AI Quality solutions help eliminate the black box surrounding widely used AI and ML technologies. This visibility leads to higher quality, explainable models that achieve measurable business results, address unfair bias, and ensure governance and compliance.
Board Observer
Aug 2021
The Rafay Platform automates the operations and consumption of compute infrastructure so businesses can focus on innovation and impact. Rafay customers turn siloed, fragmented, and complex compute environments into well-oiled, self-service engines that empower enterprises, cloud service providers and sovereign AI clouds to build and deploy cloud-native applications – including AI workloads –without limitations, to scale without barriers, and accelerate productivity without roadblocks.
Board Observer
Mar 2021
Verituity delivers verified digital B2B & B2C payouts for enterprises, banks and the public sector. As payment speeds accelerate and attack surfaces expand, errors, fraud, and misdirected payments can occur at any point in the disbursement lifecycle. One time checks and static, fragmented controls are no longer enough. Verituity was built to address this reality with continuous, multi layered and interlinking verification that operates across legacy systems, modern payment rails, and every payment type. Reducing improper payments and delivering payout precision Our fully automated platform continuously verifies payment files, payee eligibility, identities, relationships, payment accounts, and payment instructions—before and as funds move. Rather than asking whether a payee or account exists, Verituity helps organizations determine whether a payment should be made, to this payee, to this account, for this amount, at this moment—every time. Designed for complex, high volume environments, Verituity is legacy compatible by design and calibrated to each organization’s policies, compliance requirements, and risk tolerance. We serve enterprises, banks and government agencies where payout precision is mission critical and public trust, regulatory compliance, and financial stewardship matter. Continuous verification isn’t a feature. It’s a fiduciary obligation. Verituity sets the minimum acceptable standard for modern disbursements: paying the right amount, to the right payee and the right payment account - on time, every time. 🌐 verituity.com
Board Observer
Jan 2021
DeepSee is the control plane for agentic operations in financial services. We help banks and capital markets firms convert fragmented, manual workflows into software-defined services—powered by AI agents that plan, orchestrate, and execute across applications and teams. Built for production operations, DeepSee delivers secure integration, robust governance, continuous evaluation, and human oversight—so you can scale from experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
Cloudentity provides modern identity, authorization, and consent platform to modernize applications, enable data exchanges, and secure digital business across an enterprise’s existing hybrid, multi-cloud and microservices infrastructure. App modernization, big data, and service integration serve as the foundation for digital transformation, and almost all done over APIs - introducing massive scale, security and data privacy issues. Authorization rules are typically hardcoded by engineers for each application. This inefficient, bespoke process is prone to human error, policy inconsistency and audit blind spots. It does not scale nor satisfy data privacy and open data initiatives. It opens the business to cyberattack. Worse, it hampers app delivery and service innovation due to security verification delays. DevSecOps needs to shift-left. We’ve solved this challenge by decoupling identity and authorization and enabling declarative authorization via policy-as-code. Organizations orchestrate app, service, api and user-consent on-boarding, centralize fine-grained authorization policy, and gain continuous transaction-level enforcement at hyperscale – assuring protected access and data exchange for millions of service requests per second. As a result, our enterprise customers have increased development velocity and service agility while mitigating privacy, API security and compliance risks. See how Cloudentity can accelerate and secure your digital business and sign up for a demo today.
Board Observer
May 2020
Cloudflare Area 1 is a cloud-native email security service that identifies and blocks attacks before they hit user inboxes, enabling more effective protection against spear phishing, Business Email Compromise (BEC), and other advanced threats that evade existing defenses. Area 1 is part of the Cloudflare Zero Trust platform. Acquired by Cloudflare in April 2022
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2026
Investor
2026
Theres a gap in every industrial, manufacturing and field services company. Between the document chaos — invoices, engineering drawings, inspection photos, regulatory files — and the structured output the business needs to operate. That gap is filled by people. Good people doing work a machine should do. Not because they havent tried to fix it. Because nothing could handle the complexity. Until now. Corvic automates that workflow. Documents, images, and data in any format. Your exact output. In production in 30 days. FDA dossiers from 3 weeks to 2 days. 20,000 invoices a month, fully automated. P&I diagrams into engineering knowledge graphs. Stop doing manually what a machine should do. → corvic.ai
2025
Investor
2025
Databahn.ai is redefining how enterprises manage the explosion of security and operational data in the AI era. Our AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform helps organizations securely collect, enrich, orchestrate, and optimize enterprise data—including security, application, observability, and IoT/OT telemetry—for analytics, automation, and AI. With native support for over 500 integrations and built-in enrichment capabilities, Databahn streamlines fragmented data workflows and reduces SIEM and infrastructure costs from day one. The platform requires no specialist training, enabling security and IT teams to extract insights in real time and adapt quickly to new demands. Weve helped Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies reduce data processing costs by over 60% and automate more than 80% of their data engineering workloads. Our founding team brings decades of experience in cybersecurity and infrastructure, having previously managed environments ingesting more than 12 petabytes of data per day. That deep domain expertise informs our bold, opinionated approach to solving one of the biggest pain points in enterprise infrastructure: how to unify and act on fragmented, fast-growing data streams. Purpose-built for scale, speed, and simplicity, Databahn replaces patchwork stacks with a single intuitive solution that accelerates time to value and turns security data from a cost center into a strategic asset.
2024
Investor
2024
As cyber threats advance, so must our defense strategies. At SurgSecure, we don’t just adapt—we lead. At SurgSecure, we provide comprehensive security solutions that span data, applications, cloud, identity, network, and endpoints, ensuring robust protection for your business. We design, implement, and maintain scalable solutions that reduce implementation time by 50%. Our expert team conducts thorough security assessments to identify vulnerabilities and crafts customized strategies to meet your unique business needs. What We Offer? --> Expert Security Assessments --> Seamless Technology Integration --> Future-Proof Security --> Reduced Time & Cost Why Choose SurgSecure? --> Implement standardized business processes --> Ensure zero application integration gaps --> Secure leadership buy-in How We Help You Achieve Your Goals? --> Provide a High Degree of Cyber & Enterprise Resiliency --> Protect all corporate assets from cyber threats. --> Eliminate product overlaps that exist across most enterprises. --> Reduce complexity. --> Verify, design, and implement Security controls and compliance. --> Adopt AI Solutions to accelerate delivery and enable market-leading sustainment services using AI tools and solutions. From expert assessments to seamless technology integration, we deliver unmatched security that adapts as your business grows, providing future-proof solutions. Our proven methodologies prevent ransomware attacks and ensure uninterrupted operations, helping you achieve your business goals with confidence. We stand as a leader in the industry, committed to delivering top-tier cybersecurity solutions that safeguard enterprise value and build cyber resilience. Fortify your business with unmatched security and seamless integrations with SurgSecure. Send us a DM!
Partner
2024
Sprout & Oak (S&O) is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs from inception to impact.
Investor
2024
AI agents are transforming the workforce, but they also bring massive risks like exposing your most sensitive data. In just 5 minutes, Aiceberg becomes the guardian agent that oversees all Ai traffic, enforces policies, and prevents harm to your enterprise.
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