Venu Pemmaraju

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📍 Mountain View, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
VC🌍 United States
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Investor
Oct 2023
At Codoxo, formerly Fraudscope, we’re on a mission to make our healthcare system more affordable and effective. Our Forensic AI Platform uses a patented algorithm to identify problems and suspicious behavior earlier than traditional techniques which helps ensure our scarce healthcare dollars go to real patient care. If you would like to schedule a demo, please contact sales@codoxo.com
Investor
Feb 2022
LILT is the leading AI solution for enterprise translation. Our stack of Contextual AI, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive feedback enable global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. We bring human-powered, technology-assisted translations to global enterprises. We give organizations everything they need to scale their translation programs, go-to-market faster than ever, and improve the global customer experience. Speaking of – with Lilt, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI-powered technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Lilt is based in San Francisco with global offices in Berlin, Dublin, Indianapolis, Washington, D.C., London, and Argentina, and are backed by Intel Capital, Sequoia, Redpoint, Zetta, and XSeed.
Board Observer
Feb 2021
Immuta is The Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations safely and intelligently deliver governed data access to every consumer, human or AI. Since 2015, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies automate data provisioning at enterprise scale. As data demand surges and AI adoption accelerates, manual ticketing systems can’t keep up. Immuta removes these bottlenecks by automating the entire access lifecycle, from policy enforcement to request handling, delivery, audit, and recertification. What Immuta Does - Automates data provisioning by policy (birthright) and by request (governed self-service). - Writes policies once, enforces everywhere with native integrations across warehouses, storage, BI, and catalogs. - Delivers secure access in minutes, not months while maintaining continuous compliance. - Supports humans and AI agents that need governed data at machine speed. How We Help - Faster time-to-data: Reduce access delays from weeks to minutes with automated approvals and birthright access. - Less manual governance: Eliminate repetitive policy work and ticket triage for IT, stewards, and data owners. - Continuous compliance: Unified audit + automated recertification keep access accurate over time. - AI-ready provisioning: Governed access for LLMs, agents, and machine-driven workflows. Core Provisioning Workflows - Policy Authoring: Write once, enforce everywhere. Go from weeks of engineering to minutes. - Data Identification & Classification: Auto-detect and tag sensitive data to drive decisions. - Access Request Management: Governed self-service with automated approvals. - Behavior Monitoring: Detect unusual or risky access patterns in real time. - Unified Audit: See who accessed what, when, and why, in minutes, not days. The Outcome Organizations unlock data faster, reduce risk, and scale AI safely, with governed access delivered at the speed of need.
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Yugabyte is the company behind open source YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, high-performance, PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed database for mission-critical cloud native applications. Built using a unique combination of high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner), YugabyteDB serves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures and global data distribution. As a cloud native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease. We are backed by top-tier investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Meritech Capital, 8VC, Wipro Ventures, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. We are hiring across the board in Engineering, Sales and Marketing. Apply on our Careers page: https://www.yugabyte.com/about/careers/ GitHub (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db Docs: https://docs.yugabyte.com To discover more, join the Yugabyte Community via our Slack channel and connect with database experts from across the world: https://inviter.co/yugabytedb
Board Observer
Sep 2018
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE is the industry’s most complete single-vendor SASE solution, helping organizations automate costly and complex IT operations with AI-powered Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM); connect and secure branch offices and the hybrid workforce with SD-WAN, ZTNA 2.0, and Cloud SWG; and unlock better ROI through consolidation of point solutions into a single cloud-delivered service.
Investor
Feb 2018
See Exactly What Attackers See. Take full control over your attack surface by uncovering and eliminating critical security risks – the ones you didnt know existed. Our botnet and discovery engine use graph data modeling to map and classify the assets across your attack surface.
Investor
Dec 2016
Leading AP automation software | Reduce processing cost by 90% | For large and mid-sized companies | Our customers include DHL, Danone, HSBC, Kuehne + Nagel, and Air France KLM. Our platform automates accounts payable, e-invoicing, and procurement, generating huge efficiencies and cost savings for buyers and suppliers. Advanced AI-driven invoice processing eliminates manual tasks, reducing manual coding by up to 99.5%. Last year, we saved customers over 3 million hours of manual work, cutting invoice processing costs tenfold. Tradeshift ensures e-invoicing compliance in over 70 countries, including China, and is a registered Plateforme Dematerialization Partenaire (PDP) in France. Our global compliance-as-a-service capabilities keep you ready for e-invoicing and clearance mandates worldwide. Our tailored onboarding approach and unique supplier value proposition deliver 80%+ e-invoicing adoption across our customers’ supplier bases. The Tradeshift network connects over one million businesses in 190 countries. We add an average of 30,000 new supplier connections each month. Recognised as the top Procure to Pay solution by Spend Matters, Tradeshift helps businesses Digitise, Automate, and Grow—delivering tangible value across your digital transformation. Find out more at: www.Tradeshift.com
Board Observer
May 2016
Avaamo is an advanced multimodal generative AI platform empowering global enterprises to automate and deliver outstanding self-service experiences. Avaamo supports self-service interactions across HR, IT service desks, and customer service for leading global companies. Facilitating over 2 billion interactions annually in 114 languages, Avaamo seamlessly integrates with hundreds of common enterprise applications. Avaamo is founded by enterprise veterans from TIBCO, SAP, Siebel and Apple. Visit avaamo.ai to witness how Avaamo is shaping the future of generative AI-enabled conversational enterprises. Join us at the forefront of innovation
Board Observer
Mar 2016
Vectra AI, Inc. is the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks. When modern cyber attackers bypass existing controls, evade detection and gain access to customers’ data center, campus, remote work, identity, cloud, and IoT/OT environments, the Vectra AI Platform sees their every move, connects the dots in real-time, and stops them from becoming breaches. With 35 patents in AI security and the most vendor references in MITRE D3FEND, organizations worldwide rely on Vectra AI to see and stop attacks their other tools can’t. For more information, visit www.vectra.ai.
Board Observer
Jan 2016
Emailage, now LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, is a global leader in fraud prevention and risk management. Through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology, Emailage provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core.  We’re outsmarting fraud together with our clients, and helping businesses around the world realize significant return on investment through improved detection of fraudulent transactions. To learn more, visit: https://risk.lexisnexis.com, @lexisnexisrisk on Twitter, or the company’s LinkedIn page. 
Investor
Jun 2015
The Vicarious business has been acquired by Intrinsic, a robotics software and AI company at Alphabet. Together, we share an exciting mission to unlock the economic and creative potential of industrial robotics for millions of businesses, entrepreneurs and developers. Learn more about the work we will do together at www.intrinsic.ai. — Before joining Intrinsic, Vicarious built a thriving business as a turnkey robotics solutions integrator using AI to automate tasks too complex for traditional automation, by leveraging their deep expertise in neuroscience. Vicarious was founded in 2010 by Scott Phoenix and Dileep George, and backed by over $200M from investors like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Samsung. Its technology has been published in peer-reviewed journals like Science and Science Robotics and featured by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MIT, Wired, and more.
Board Observer
Jun 2015
Imanis Data is the enterprise data management company powered by machine learning. We enable customers to harness the full value of their data by delivering solutions that protect their data, as well as orchestrate and automate all their data management tasks. Imanis Data’s customers include leading Fortune 500 businesses in the retail, financial services and technology industries, among others. Backed by Canaan Partners, Intel Capital, Onset Ventures, and Wipro Ventures Imanis Data is located in San Jose, CA. With Imanis Data's machine-learning powered data management, enterprises can: - protect all their data whether on-premises or in the cloud - automate migration across databases and cloud boundaries - identify and prevent threats such as Ransomware attacks - simplify compliance for regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI Imanis Data supports all leading NoSQL and Hadoop data platforms as well as leading public cloud platforms. For more information, visit www.imanisdata.com or follow us on Twitter @ImanisData.
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2023
Investor
Oct 2023
At Codoxo, formerly Fraudscope, we’re on a mission to make our healthcare system more affordable and effective. Our Forensic AI Platform uses a patented algorithm to identify problems and suspicious behavior earlier than traditional techniques which helps ensure our scarce healthcare dollars go to real patient care. If you would like to schedule a demo, please contact sales@codoxo.com
2022
Investor
Feb 2022
LILT is the leading AI solution for enterprise translation. Our stack of Contextual AI, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive feedback enable global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. We bring human-powered, technology-assisted translations to global enterprises. We give organizations everything they need to scale their translation programs, go-to-market faster than ever, and improve the global customer experience. Speaking of – with Lilt, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI-powered technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale. Lilt is based in San Francisco with global offices in Berlin, Dublin, Indianapolis, Washington, D.C., London, and Argentina, and are backed by Intel Capital, Sequoia, Redpoint, Zetta, and XSeed.
2021
Board Observer
Feb 2021
Immuta is The Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations safely and intelligently deliver governed data access to every consumer, human or AI. Since 2015, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies automate data provisioning at enterprise scale. As data demand surges and AI adoption accelerates, manual ticketing systems can’t keep up. Immuta removes these bottlenecks by automating the entire access lifecycle, from policy enforcement to request handling, delivery, audit, and recertification. What Immuta Does - Automates data provisioning by policy (birthright) and by request (governed self-service). - Writes policies once, enforces everywhere with native integrations across warehouses, storage, BI, and catalogs. - Delivers secure access in minutes, not months while maintaining continuous compliance. - Supports humans and AI agents that need governed data at machine speed. How We Help - Faster time-to-data: Reduce access delays from weeks to minutes with automated approvals and birthright access. - Less manual governance: Eliminate repetitive policy work and ticket triage for IT, stewards, and data owners. - Continuous compliance: Unified audit + automated recertification keep access accurate over time. - AI-ready provisioning: Governed access for LLMs, agents, and machine-driven workflows. Core Provisioning Workflows - Policy Authoring: Write once, enforce everywhere. Go from weeks of engineering to minutes. - Data Identification & Classification: Auto-detect and tag sensitive data to drive decisions. - Access Request Management: Governed self-service with automated approvals. - Behavior Monitoring: Detect unusual or risky access patterns in real time. - Unified Audit: See who accessed what, when, and why, in minutes, not days. The Outcome Organizations unlock data faster, reduce risk, and scale AI safely, with governed access delivered at the speed of need.
2020
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Yugabyte is the company behind open source YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, high-performance, PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed database for mission-critical cloud native applications. Built using a unique combination of high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner), YugabyteDB serves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures and global data distribution. As a cloud native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease. We are backed by top-tier investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Meritech Capital, 8VC, Wipro Ventures, and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. We are hiring across the board in Engineering, Sales and Marketing. Apply on our Careers page: https://www.yugabyte.com/about/careers/ GitHub (Apache 2.0): https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db Docs: https://docs.yugabyte.com To discover more, join the Yugabyte Community via our Slack channel and connect with database experts from across the world: https://inviter.co/yugabytedb
2018
Board Observer
Sep 2018
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE is the industry’s most complete single-vendor SASE solution, helping organizations automate costly and complex IT operations with AI-powered Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM); connect and secure branch offices and the hybrid workforce with SD-WAN, ZTNA 2.0, and Cloud SWG; and unlock better ROI through consolidation of point solutions into a single cloud-delivered service.
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