Venky Harinarayan

Founding Partner at rocketship.vc

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2002
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Founding Investor, Board Member
2002
Maximum advertising performance and returns. It’s what we’ve been delivering for the world’s largest advertisers since 2002. We built the first unified performance management platform that optimizes across key digital marketing channels including Search, Display, and Facebook. With over $1 billion advertising spend under management globally, our expertise is unparalleled. Our platform gives marketers the control and insights required to manage campaigns effectively, and our technology solves the complexity of performance optimization in the auction-based digital ad markets. Efficient Frontier is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in New York, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and India, and technology licensing partnerships in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
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2025
Partner
Jul 2025
We built Epsilon Ventures the way founders would. Small, fast, deeply technical. AI sits across our entire stack — helping us find outlier founders before others even notice. We invest $200,000 in pre-seed and seed-stage companies in the US
2023
2015
Founding Partner
2015
We are a global venture capital firm with investments in 14 countries. Our portfolio companies represent diversity in about 20 sectors, including AI software, HR Tech, e-commerce, real estate, financial software, and more. As a team, we are passionate about driving innovation and supporting exceptional founders as they scale up their businesses. Our expertise in data mining is reflected in our accomplishment of writing a textbook on the subject that has been downloaded over a million times and translated into 14 languages. We have also contributed to the Mars Exploration Rover Mission in partnership with NASA, having written code that runs on another planet. At Rocketship.VC, we have the largest database of start-up activity, which enables us to stay on top of industry trends and identify promising investment opportunities. Follow our page for updates on our portfolio companies, insights into our investment strategy, and the latest news from the start-up ecosystem.
2005
Founder
2005
Kosmix scours the Web to automatically generate home pages for any topic
2002
Founding Investor, Board Member
2002
Maximum advertising performance and returns. It’s what we’ve been delivering for the world’s largest advertisers since 2002. We built the first unified performance management platform that optimizes across key digital marketing channels including Search, Display, and Facebook. With over $1 billion advertising spend under management globally, our expertise is unparalleled. Our platform gives marketers the control and insights required to manage campaigns effectively, and our technology solves the complexity of performance optimization in the auction-based digital ad markets. Efficient Frontier is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in New York, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and India, and technology licensing partnerships in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
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