Shesh S

Engineer| Investor | Mentor | Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
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Feb 2025
Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, purpose-built for AI engineers and researchers with a full suite of tooling across inference, model shaping, and pre-training. AI natives can use Together AI as a full-stack AI platform — from a high- performance inference engine built for reliable and fast scaling to on-demand GPU clusters and massive-scale AI factories. Together AI continuously pushes the frontier forward by productizing cutting-edge research from our world-leading AI systems research team. By combining research velocity with production-grade infrastructure, we enable companies to reliably scale AI-native applications as fast as the field evolves. Trusted by leading AI natives like Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, and Cartesia, as well as SaaS innovators such as Salesforce, Zoom, and Zomato, Together AI powers the next generation of AI-native applications.
Investor
Dec 2024
The worlds most powerful video intelligence platform for enterprises.
Investor
Jun 2024
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.
Investor & Board Observer
2023
The heart of SiFive is RISC-V! SiFive creates the building blocks of RISC-V-based IP that are the inevitable innovative reimagining of every computing platform.
Investor
2023
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Investor
2022
Phantom AI’s mission is to democratize the use of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. Founded by a team with deep automotive and AI expertise, Phantom AI provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities. Phantom AI has created the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions.
Investor & Board Observer
2022
Inworld AI is a realtime AI model and infrastructure company, and the leading consumer AI infrastructure platform. Inworld provides industry-leading realtime generative models, including the world’s #1-ranked voice AI models, intelligent model routing and optimization, and an Agent Runtime, enabling developers to build and deploy interactive AI applications to millions of concurrent users. Inworld primarily serves use cases where realtime interaction and sophisticated agent capabilities are critical, such as companion apps, developer assistants, and agents for learning & education, health & wellness, interactive media and enterprise. At its core, Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers. The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow, the conversational AI platform acquired by Google. Inworld has raised $125M+ from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford, Microsoft M12, Meta, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT, LG Tech Ventures, and Bitkraft among others.
Investor
2022
GGWP helps games harness their data to create safer and more positive experiences for their players. Our ambition is to transform game moderation: by thoughtfully leveraging AI to identify and respond to toxic incidents and empowering moderators to become superhuman with automation and streamlined tools.
Investor
2021
Pindrop® solutions are leading the way to the future of voice by establishing the standard for security, identity, and trust for every voice interaction. Pindrop solutions protect some of the biggest banks, insurers, and retailers in the world using patented technology that extracts an unrivaled amount of intelligence from every call encountered. Pindrop solutions help detect fraudsters and authenticate callers, reducing fraud and operational costs, while improving customer experience and protecting brand reputation. Pindrop solutions have been implemented in 8 of the top 10 US banks and 5 of the top 7 US life insurers. Additionally, 70% of Pindrop US customers are Fortune 500. Pindrop, a privately held company, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, was founded in 2011 and is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, CapitalG, GV, and IVP. For more information, please visit pindrop.com.
Investor
2019
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.
Investor & Board Member
Mar 2016
etherWhere is the pioneer in low power high sensitivity location services technology. The product is applicable to many industries including wearables, Industrial, automotive, drones, asset tracking and much more. While the chip is leading GNSS performance in all aspects, the AccuWhere Cloud further enhances power and performance for connected devices. The ArrayNav, multi-antenna GNSS is the perfect solution for lane by lane accuracy for car navigation. The etherWhere team is always interested in speaking with exceptional talent, please contact careers@etherwhere.com.
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2025
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Feb 2025
Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, purpose-built for AI engineers and researchers with a full suite of tooling across inference, model shaping, and pre-training. AI natives can use Together AI as a full-stack AI platform — from a high- performance inference engine built for reliable and fast scaling to on-demand GPU clusters and massive-scale AI factories. Together AI continuously pushes the frontier forward by productizing cutting-edge research from our world-leading AI systems research team. By combining research velocity with production-grade infrastructure, we enable companies to reliably scale AI-native applications as fast as the field evolves. Trusted by leading AI natives like Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, and Cartesia, as well as SaaS innovators such as Salesforce, Zoom, and Zomato, Together AI powers the next generation of AI-native applications.
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
The worlds most powerful video intelligence platform for enterprises.
Investor
Jun 2024
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.
Investor
Feb 2024
The Superintelligence Cloud
2023
Investor & Board Observer
2023
The heart of SiFive is RISC-V! SiFive creates the building blocks of RISC-V-based IP that are the inevitable innovative reimagining of every computing platform.
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