Varsha Tagare

Qualcomm Ventures

📍 Santa Clara, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Oct 2025
Upscale ai delivers scalable, standards-based open AI backend networks designed to meet the speed, scale, and control that AI workloads require.
Board Observer
Mar 2025
Pioneer in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, privacy, and AI
Board Observer
Mar 2025
Velaura AI, Inc. (formerly Auradine) is a leader in ultra-low power compute solutions for data center, edge and physical AI applications. Founded by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and technologists, the company combines deep technical expertise, proven IP and execution, and breakthrough silicon innovation. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
Investor
Jan 2025
Mobility leaders want to explore open and scalable middleware solutions that can set foundation for the future generation of vehicles and bring significant quality and productivity improvements. Appropriate middleware solutions help transition to a solid central-compute architecture.
Board Observer
Sep 2023
At Ethernovia, we’re inventing the future of automobile’s communication . We are transforming automobiles’ communication network to enable the autonomous driving and electrical vehicle (EV) revolutions. Our breakthrough compute, communication, and software ushers in a new era of car connectivity and capabilities. We bring together, accelerate, and unify the car’s sensors, compute, and outside world to enable new advanced driver assistance features and services.
Board Observer
Aug 2023
HDVI delivers modern insurance driven by safety, service and savings to small and mid-size trucking fleet operators. Our goal is to become a partner to the fleet business owner by providing next-generation insurance integrated with best-in-class telematics hardware, advanced software and services to help them manage their vehicles and business each day. By incorporating telematics and dash cam data from our customers into our integrated risk management model, HDVI is able to select, price, manage, and retain risk more accurately and efficiently than incumbent commercial auto insurance providers.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer and Investor
Mar 2022
Zuddl is a unified events and webinars platform, which helps B2B event marketers simplify their event tech stack. Instead of using 8-10 different tools and platforms for running one event end to end, use Zuddl to manage your in-person, virtual and hybrid event programs and webinars from one platform. Zuddl is trusted by companies like Stack Commerce, Rocket Lane, ServiceNow, Storyblok, Mindtickle, Cloudsmith, Expensify, Partnership Leaders, United Nations, NAMIC, HBA, NASSCOM, Google, Microsoft, Kellogg’s amongst others to help them unify their event stack
Board Observer Sibros
Jan 2022
Sibros gives automakers a single source of truth and visibility into all software and data for globally connected fleets while automating workflows for full-vehicle over-the-air software updates, data collection, and remote diagnostics in an industry compliant manner. By connecting software and data for every ECU seamlessly from edge-to-cloud in one vertically integrated system, Sibros helps automakers accelerate time-to-market, reduce code defects and enable hundreds of connected vehicle use cases at global scale. The company has raised over $85Mn in growth capital from leading investors including Energy Impact Partners, Fontinalis Partners, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Iron Pillar, Qualcomm Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners and Moneta Ventures. Interested in joining our rocket ship journey to change the future of connected automotive technology? Explore your next role and apply at www.sibros.com/careers.
Board Observer and Investor
Jul 2021
Shadowfax is Indias Fastest Growing End-to-End fully integrated Logistics Provider. The only platform with capabilities to serve multiple categories- E-commerce & D2C, Hyperlocal & Quick commerce & Personal Courier. Building a better customer experience with a network of 2500+ cities & 18000 + pin codes, Shadowfax is a one-stop solution for merchants to deliver to customers. As Indias largest crowdsourced last-mile delivery platform, weve successfully shipped over 1 billion+ orders. Now experience Express Delivery from 1 hour to same-day and next-day services with the benefits of doorstep quality checks, instant refunds, and hassle-free returns at your fingertips with our optimized solutions. Our new identity Flash by Shadowfax(Personal Courier service)reflects the speed, reliability, and affordability that define our on-demand pickup and drop within the city delivery service. What truly defines us is our unwavering commitment to sustainability. Reducing carbon footprint with our Electric Vehicle Fleet, offering green solutions through eco-friendly scooters and vans, driven by our passionate executives. Join us at Shadowfax, where innovation meets reliability, and lets redefine the future of logistics together! 📦
Investor
Jul 2020
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, d/b/a Jio, is an Indian telecommunications company and wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It operates a national LTE network with coverage across all 22 telecom circles
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Award-winning Blue Canoe is the #1 app for spoken English recommended by ESL teachers around the world. Blue Canoe uses a proven brain-science based methodology and applies AI and speech recognition. Blue Canoe's mobile app exercises and games to help non-native English speakers improve their and confidence and clarity when speaking English in only 10 minutes a day. Download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play store to start for free with great limited access with the option to upgrade to a Premium plan with access to thousands of words and hundreds of sentences to practice. FOR BUSINESSES: Global teams and global clients means that clear spoken English is mission critical. Blue Canoe improves productivity, and communication with customers and colleagues. SAP Japan and EY Japan worked with Blue Canoe improve their executives' confidence in English. Blue Canoe shines as a workforce development tool for international teams and BPO to make a qualitative leap in customer experience. FOR EDUCATION COMPANIES: We also partner with English-language learning companies like Berlitz to distribute Blue Canoe to learners as a new revenue opportunity. FOR SCHOOLS & NONPROFITS: Blue Canoe has a robust and well-respected program to make Blue Canoe available to schools and learning institutions globally. Contact us at partners@bluecanoelearning.com to talk about how we can help your school or nonprofit. Contact us at info@bluecanoelearning.com to talk about how we can help you achieve your team's goals in improving confidence and clarity English.
Investor
Apr 2019
Zinier is a leading Field Service Management platform with AI and low-code/ no-code automation that helps organizations to improve field operations, manage frontline workforce and maintain critical assets, thus helping to create a connected, sustainable and safe world. Guided by a deep understanding of the field work, Zinier helps orchestrate customizable workflows to allow organizations to stay in full control of and have complete visibility into their field operations, workforce, assets and customers. Our platform enhances productivity by automating scheduling, dispatching, and maintenance tasks while providing real-time tracking and intuitive mobile support for technicians and field operators. Scalable and user-friendly, our solution seamlessly integrates with existing systems, serving industries like telecommunications and fiber, utilities, energy, EV infrastructure, and manufacturing among others. Through a world leading pure play FSM Platform with AI and low-code/ no-code automation, Zinier empowers service delivery teams - and the people supporting them - to unlock their full potential. Our global customers realize cost savings through improved resource productivity, higher revenues through deeper customer relationships, and better employee engagement. Transform your field service operations with Zinier for optimized efficiency and superior service delivery!
Board Observer
Jun 2016
ideaForge is the pioneer and the pre-eminent market leader in the Indian unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”) market. In India, the company has the largest operational deployment of indigenous UAVs, with an ideaForge-manufactured drone taking off every five minutes for surveillance and mapping. Our customers have completed over 300,000 flights using our UAVs. According to a report published in December 2022 by Drone Industry Insights, ideaForge ranked 7th globally in the dual-use category (civil and defense) drone manufacturers. ideaForge UAVs are equipped with industry-leading specifications and capabilities that are comparable to those of other well-established global players in the UAV industry. Our indigenous design and technological ability to invent, design, and deliver customer-centric offerings enable us to design, develop, engineer, and manufacture our UAVs in-house while maintaining control over performance, reliability, and autonomy. ideaForge's UAV platforms are designed with a 'mission first' approach, i.e., to deliver UAVs that meet our customers' needs and that, we believe, can reliably sustain a large number of flights and can be operated autonomously without special skills or training. In addition to being one of the first few players in India to enter the UAV market, ideaForge was the first company in India to develop and manufacture vertical take-off and landing ("VTOL") UAVs in 2009. The company has industry-leading product portfolios aimed at civil and defense applications (dual use).
Board Observer
Sep 2015
Mindtickle helps businesses grow revenue and retain customers by improving performance in sales and customer support teams. Our award-winning Revenue Enablement Platform combines on-the-job learning with customer engagement activities. This unified approach helps managers and enablement teams to capture data on rep behaviors, benchmark them with ideal rep profiles, and improve their performance with personalized training and coaching. Brands like Cisco, Splunk, Henkel, Juniper Networks, and Janssen use Mindtickle to increase productivity for customer-facing teams.
Board Observer
Aug 2015
Housejoy is one of India’s first tech-enabled, customer centric, Integrated Construction Management service providers for Independent houses & Residential properties. We partner with homeowners nationwide to meet all their home construction & home improvement needs, with a promise of quality & ease of delivery. An expert in Design, Build & Maintenance, Housejoy has an in-house team of architects, designers, project managers and relationship managers with a cumulative experience of over 25 years in the construction industry. Our clients can opt in to avail high-tech App interface that allows customers with real time visibility of project status, right from booking experience, design phase, documentation, project execution, quality checks, payment flow and final handover . Headquartered in Bangalore, Housejoy serves 6 major cities, with home construction projects. We promise highest standard quality, on-time project delivery, extended warranty and a hassle-free experience from plan approval to handover on all our construction projects to all our customers. We also promise a lifetime maintenance contract with the house owners providing home repair, renovation & improvement services. Housejoy - We are all about the House!
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2025
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Oct 2025
Upscale ai delivers scalable, standards-based open AI backend networks designed to meet the speed, scale, and control that AI workloads require.
Board Observer
Mar 2025
Pioneer in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, privacy, and AI
Board Observer
Mar 2025
Velaura AI, Inc. (formerly Auradine) is a leader in ultra-low power compute solutions for data center, edge and physical AI applications. Founded by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and technologists, the company combines deep technical expertise, proven IP and execution, and breakthrough silicon innovation. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
Investor
Jan 2025
Mobility leaders want to explore open and scalable middleware solutions that can set foundation for the future generation of vehicles and bring significant quality and productivity improvements. Appropriate middleware solutions help transition to a solid central-compute architecture.
2023
Board Observer
Sep 2023
At Ethernovia, we’re inventing the future of automobile’s communication . We are transforming automobiles’ communication network to enable the autonomous driving and electrical vehicle (EV) revolutions. Our breakthrough compute, communication, and software ushers in a new era of car connectivity and capabilities. We bring together, accelerate, and unify the car’s sensors, compute, and outside world to enable new advanced driver assistance features and services.
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