Venkatesh S.

Co-founder, Spotonix — the agentic analyst that shows you the plan before it runs · Built Apache Atlas/Falcon · ex-Yahoo!

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Investor
2021
8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.8VC.com
Angel Investor & Startup Advisor
2020
Notícias, estudos e análises sobre startups e tecnologia
early stageInternet News
Investor
2019
Outlier shut down in 2022, this page remains as a memory of our company and on the resumes of our team. Business intelligence is ready for a change. We dont believe the world needs any more dashboards, charts or data warehouses. What leaders need today is help to make better use of the tools they already have. That is what we do at Outlier: we improve the relationship between people and their data. We believe that success in life and success in business are not separate things, but intertwined as part of our lives. It is important to us that the journey we take with our company is as positive as the destination we hope to reach.
Investor - Series A
2019
Outlier shut down in 2022, this page remains as a memory of our company and on the resumes of our team. Business intelligence is ready for a change. We dont believe the world needs any more dashboards, charts or data warehouses. What leaders need today is help to make better use of the tools they already have. That is what we do at Outlier: we improve the relationship between people and their data. We believe that success in life and success in business are not separate things, but intertwined as part of our lives. It is important to us that the journey we take with our company is as positive as the destination we hope to reach.
Investor - Series A
2019
Enveil is a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Enveil’s business-enabling and privacy-preserving capabilities change the paradigm of how and where organizations can leverage data to unlock value. Defining the transformative category of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions for secure data usage, collaboration, and monetization protect data while its being used or processed. Customers can extract insights, cross-match, search, and analyze data assets at scale without ever revealing the content of the search itself, compromising the security or ownership of the underlying data, or exposing their interests and intent. A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer founded by U.S. Intelligence Community alumni, Enveil is deployed and operational today, revolutionizing data usage in the global marketplace.
Investor - Series Seed
2018
Open source test and development tools for microservices applications. Modern applications rely on complex interactions among services and APIs. Engineering teams must create service tests with extensive API mocks to shift testing left, as well as E2E API tests. Current approaches to API test creation are effort-intensive and inefficient, adding a costly layer of API testing tasks. Mesh Dynamics is the first developer product that enables low-code API testing by learning from API traffic in lower environments. Teams can now easily create different types of API tests (service tests, E2E API tests, API consumer contract tests) for the CI as well as for pre-submit service testing locally. Benefits include: - Rapid creation of service tests with auto-created mocks. - Rapid creation of E2E API tests. - Rapid creation of API consumer contract tests
Investor - Series A
2017
Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API.
Investor, Board Observer
2017
Hazelcast modernizes applications with a unified real-time data platform to act instantly on streaming data to create new revenue streams, mitigate risks and operate efficiently. Top brands trust Hazelcast to simplify real-time architectures for next-gen applications requiring high-performance at scale, security, and resilience. Unlock instant action. Visit www.hazelcast.com.
Investor
2017
**Snowflake is proud to be the Official Data Collaboration Provider for LA28 and Team USA.** Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the AI Data Cloud.
Investor
2017
Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API.
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2024
Co-Founder
Jan 2024
**Spotonix is an agentic analyst for your data warehouse.** Ask a question the way youd ask a person. Spotonix composes a plan from your validated Segments and Calculations, shows you that plan **before the query runs**, and returns an answer that shows its work — so you can trust it, not just read it. The trust comes from a **Context Graph**: Spotonix learns from your warehouse, semantic models, and the queries your team has already approved, so accepted answers compound instead of starting over each session. It proposes; your team decides. Built by a team from the semantic-layer, Druid, and Apache metadata worlds — the people who built the systems this depends on. We prove it on your data, against a baseline we set together, in four weeks. Working with a small group of design partners now → spotonix.com
Co-Founder
2024
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2021
Investor
2021
8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.8VC.com
2020
Angel Investor & Startup Advisor
2020
Notícias, estudos e análises sobre startups e tecnologia
early stageInternet News
2019
Investor
2019
Outlier shut down in 2022, this page remains as a memory of our company and on the resumes of our team. Business intelligence is ready for a change. We dont believe the world needs any more dashboards, charts or data warehouses. What leaders need today is help to make better use of the tools they already have. That is what we do at Outlier: we improve the relationship between people and their data. We believe that success in life and success in business are not separate things, but intertwined as part of our lives. It is important to us that the journey we take with our company is as positive as the destination we hope to reach.
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