Venkat Tadanki

Investor Advisor Mentor Entrepreneur

📍 United States, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United States
14
Total investments
7
Early stage
3
Mid stage
1
Late stage
26y
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Investor and Advisor
Feb 2024
Spyne is an AI-native automotive retail technology company transforming how dealerships sell, service, and engage customers. Headquartered in the US and India, we empower 3,000+ dealerships and OEMs across the globe with AI-powered digital storefronts, studio-quality car visuals, and autonomous assistants that streamline sales and service workflows. Funded with $25M+ from global investors including Vertex Ventures, Accel, Storm Ventures, and Alteria Capital, we are shaping the future of automotive retail by building the AI dealership of tomorrow - faster, smarter, and customer-first.
Investor/Advisor
Apr 2021
Krishi Network enables small and marginal farmers of Indian with better access to the market, quality input, and expertise. Krishi Network is a community platform for progressive Indian farmers to connect with experts, merchants, organized buyers, and each other. Farmers use productivity tools like - crop disease detection, mandi price visibility, merchant visibility, and question & answer forums, and weather prediction.
Investor and Advisor
Jul 2020
Recognized as the Most Innovative Biotech Company, 2024, by Fast Company! Even today Early R&D, Precision Diagnostics and Translational Biomarker teams spend about 80% of their time wrangling data. Elucidatas mission is to empower scientists in the life sciences field by reclaiming every valuable hour for their research endeavors. Elucidata’s data harmonization platform - Polly, helps research teams make multi-modal biomedical data Machine Learning ready. Each dataset on Polly is processed consistently using pipelines of your choice, is custom curated with granular annotations and undergoes robust QA/QC checks to ensure highest data quality standards. Polly transforms multi-modal and multi-source biomedical data (Omics, Assay, Real World Data, Clinical & EHR Data, and CRO data) into a Unified Data Model. With our 10X faster LLM-powered curation and human-in-the-loop model to achieve 99.99% accuracy, we are fast-tracking time to analysis. Today, Polly is facilitating use case like patient stratification, biomarker discovery, target ID & validation, data management, and development of clinical and commercial pipelines across Pfizer, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, NextGen Jane and IMBDx and over 35 premier biopharma companies and research labs. Head-quarted in San Francisco, we are a 120+ multi-disciplinary team of experts based across the US and India. In September 2022, we raised $16 million in our Series A round led by Eight Roads and F-Prime along with our existing investors Hyperplane and IvyCap. Write to us at info@elucidata.io for queries To talk to us, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/book-a-meeting For more information, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/ Visit Our Offices - San Francisco Head Quarters: 114 Sansome Street, Suite 250 San Francisco, CA 94104 Boston Office: 625 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 R&D Hubs, India - Delhi and Bangalore
Investor
Oct 2019
WEVO is a platform that uncovers insights with significantly less effort than typical tools. Research, product and marketing teams get synthesized quantitative and qualitative insights, scores and benchmarks with less than 30 minutes of effort. WEVO’s statistically significant feedback de-risks their decision-making, delivering the confidence to build valuable customer experiences.
Investor and Advisor
Oct 2019
Nektar is the GTM telemetry platform that automatically captures every customer interaction and delivers clean data to your CRM, data warehouse, and AI applications—with zero manual entry or adoption friction. Unlike tools that lock your data in proprietary interfaces, Nektar acts as revenue signals infrastructure: capturing emails, meetings, calls, and Slack, then piping structured intelligence into Salesforce, Snowflake, Claude, and your entire stack. Brex, Mimecast, Cursor, Writer, and Ironclad rely on Nektar to see complete buying committees (not the incomplete fragments in most CRMs), power AI systems with trustworthy data, and preserve institutional knowledge when people leave. Deploy in 2 weeks with historical backfill. No UI. No change management. Enterprise-grade security.
Investor and Advisor
Nov 2018
We at Meddo (Arctern Healthcare) are re-defining how primary and secondary healthcare is provided in India through a connected care delivery platform.
Investor
Sep 2016
THB (Technology | Healthcare | Big Data Analytics) is Asias leading Enterprise Healthcare SAAS company serving large healthcare enterprises to drive digital, data, and technology adoption with their data management platform. THB platform processes over 500mn clinical parameters and a suite of software solutions across 20+ use cases, including patient engagement, doctor engagement, clinical customer relationship management, analytics automation, customer care automation, and real-world evidence.
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2016
Cookifi helps people to build an awesome experience when it comes to food for special meals, house parties, kitty parties, birthday parties, office parties or outdoor events, with variety in food from different cuisines. Be it your better half, your family or larger gathering, Cookifi is a platform to be!
Investor and Advisor
Dec 2014
Innovaccer is the AI infrastructure for autonomous healthcare operations, delivering better clinical and financial outcomes across health systems, payers, governments, and life sciences. Powered by the Healthcare Intelligence Platform, Innovaccer unifies enterprise data and applies AI to automate administrative work, strengthen operational performance, and drive measurable margin expansion. Organizations such as Orlando Health, Adventist HealthCare, and Banner Health trust Innovaccer to integrate intelligence into their existing infrastructure and elevate the quality of care. For more information, visit www.innovaccer.com.
Investor and Advisor
May 2012
In today’s world, consumers are taking control of their every living act. In that sense, travelers have evolved too and for them, going on a holiday is more than just an activity – starts with accessing information from multiple channels, to talking to numerous service providers to strike deal with & to many micro-moments (turning into device whenever needed) to go through. In the end, what they can’t completely comprehend and therefore is fearful of, is going to an unknown territory and the complications associated with it. Thus, comes TravelTriangle – an expert friend and holiday provider who will guide the traveler through the entire process of exploring, planning & booking holiday. We aim to make holiday planning an enjoyable and hassle-free activity and so, we stand for an innovative, reliable & tech-focused travel brand that is geared towards providing an end to end fulfillment of an amazing holiday booking and delivery experience. Currently operating as an online marketplace model bringing both the travelers, and trusted & expert travel agents on a common platform, the aim is to encompass all the components of holiday eco-system and be the one-stop solution for the traveler. We are not only making holiday planning an easy act by providing experts and good prices for holiday packages to the travelers, but also developing this network of experts who are our travel agents and exposing them to the state-of- art SAAS CRM opportunity of in-built algorithms to guide them through the life-cycle of purchase and give them access to million plus travelers. Co-founded by 3 IIT graduates – Sankalp Agarwal, Sanchit Garg and Prabhat Gupta, TravelTriangle is headquartered at Gurugram and operates with a versatile team of 450+ people. It has a highly tech-driven product that witnesses around 20 lakh visitors every month. Currently serving 65+ destinations and hosting a network of 650+ expert holiday planners, that is, our travel agents. Having raised close to a cumulative funding of $20 Million from SAIF Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and RB Investments put together, the company has already achieved operating profitability, and on track to become EBITDA profitable by next year.
Investor and Board Member
2010
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.
Founder, Board Member and VP
2000
IBM Daksh (customer care business) acquired by Concentrix. Hence this is not an official company page.
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2024
Investor and Advisor
Feb 2024
Spyne is an AI-native automotive retail technology company transforming how dealerships sell, service, and engage customers. Headquartered in the US and India, we empower 3,000+ dealerships and OEMs across the globe with AI-powered digital storefronts, studio-quality car visuals, and autonomous assistants that streamline sales and service workflows. Funded with $25M+ from global investors including Vertex Ventures, Accel, Storm Ventures, and Alteria Capital, we are shaping the future of automotive retail by building the AI dealership of tomorrow - faster, smarter, and customer-first.
2021
Investor/Advisor
Apr 2021
Krishi Network enables small and marginal farmers of Indian with better access to the market, quality input, and expertise. Krishi Network is a community platform for progressive Indian farmers to connect with experts, merchants, organized buyers, and each other. Farmers use productivity tools like - crop disease detection, mandi price visibility, merchant visibility, and question & answer forums, and weather prediction.
2020
Investor and Advisor
Jul 2020
Recognized as the Most Innovative Biotech Company, 2024, by Fast Company! Even today Early R&D, Precision Diagnostics and Translational Biomarker teams spend about 80% of their time wrangling data. Elucidatas mission is to empower scientists in the life sciences field by reclaiming every valuable hour for their research endeavors. Elucidata’s data harmonization platform - Polly, helps research teams make multi-modal biomedical data Machine Learning ready. Each dataset on Polly is processed consistently using pipelines of your choice, is custom curated with granular annotations and undergoes robust QA/QC checks to ensure highest data quality standards. Polly transforms multi-modal and multi-source biomedical data (Omics, Assay, Real World Data, Clinical & EHR Data, and CRO data) into a Unified Data Model. With our 10X faster LLM-powered curation and human-in-the-loop model to achieve 99.99% accuracy, we are fast-tracking time to analysis. Today, Polly is facilitating use case like patient stratification, biomarker discovery, target ID & validation, data management, and development of clinical and commercial pipelines across Pfizer, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, NextGen Jane and IMBDx and over 35 premier biopharma companies and research labs. Head-quarted in San Francisco, we are a 120+ multi-disciplinary team of experts based across the US and India. In September 2022, we raised $16 million in our Series A round led by Eight Roads and F-Prime along with our existing investors Hyperplane and IvyCap. Write to us at info@elucidata.io for queries To talk to us, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/book-a-meeting For more information, visit: https://www.elucidata.io/ Visit Our Offices - San Francisco Head Quarters: 114 Sansome Street, Suite 250 San Francisco, CA 94104 Boston Office: 625 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 R&D Hubs, India - Delhi and Bangalore
2019
Investor
Oct 2019
WEVO is a platform that uncovers insights with significantly less effort than typical tools. Research, product and marketing teams get synthesized quantitative and qualitative insights, scores and benchmarks with less than 30 minutes of effort. WEVO’s statistically significant feedback de-risks their decision-making, delivering the confidence to build valuable customer experiences.
Investor and Advisor
Oct 2019
Nektar is the GTM telemetry platform that automatically captures every customer interaction and delivers clean data to your CRM, data warehouse, and AI applications—with zero manual entry or adoption friction. Unlike tools that lock your data in proprietary interfaces, Nektar acts as revenue signals infrastructure: capturing emails, meetings, calls, and Slack, then piping structured intelligence into Salesforce, Snowflake, Claude, and your entire stack. Brex, Mimecast, Cursor, Writer, and Ironclad rely on Nektar to see complete buying committees (not the incomplete fragments in most CRMs), power AI systems with trustworthy data, and preserve institutional knowledge when people leave. Deploy in 2 weeks with historical backfill. No UI. No change management. Enterprise-grade security.
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