Abhi Arunachalam
Investor @ Battery Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Abhi Arunachalam is a Series A investor at Battery Ventures in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Cloud Security. Abhi is the Managing Partner at Alkeon, enterprise-infrastructure investing on the West Coast in sectors such as cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and big-data analytics. He has more than 12 years of operational and investment experience. Abhi is currently involved in Battery investments including Databricks, Expel, Fungible, InfluxData, Jask,JFrog, and Streamsets.Before joining Battery, Abhi was a partner at Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corp., where he focused on early- and growth-stage investing in areas including big-data analytics, mobile/IoT and broader infrastructure. At Intel Capital, he helped lead investments in category-defining companies such as Recon Instruments (acquired by Intel), EyeFluence (acquired by Google), iZettle, Urban Airship, Inrix and Brit+Co. He also served as a board observer at Kaltura, CashStar and Apperian.Prior to Intel Capital Abhi spent over six years at Qualcomm Research in various operational roles. He built the industry leading APM solution for mobile handsets and backbone networks. Abhi was also involved with the incubation and design of Qualcomm’s LTE technology and managed strategic partnerships with OEMs, infrastructure vendors and carriers.Abhi holds an MS in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA, with honors, from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
- Total investments:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (50%)
- Cloud Security 1 (50%)
- Cyber Security 1 (50%)
- Network Security 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (50%)
- Series B 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Expel is a SOC-as-a-service platform that provides security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Expel use the security signals its customers already own so organizations can get more value from their existing security investments. It connects to customer tech remotely through APIs, not agents, so its SOC canstart monitoring a customer’s environment in a matter of hours, letting their internal teams get back to focusing on the most strategic security priorities that are unique to their business.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. | $20M / Series B / Apr 10, 2018 | ||
| Expel is a SOC-as-a-service platform that provides security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Expel use the security signals its customers already own so organizations can get more value from their existing security investments. It connects to customer tech remotely through APIs, not agents, so its SOC canstart monitoring a customer’s environment in a matter of hours, letting their internal teams get back to focusing on the most strategic security priorities that are unique to their business.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. | $7.5M / Series A / Sep 12, 2016 |
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About Battery Ventures
Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.
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Lior Mallul
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What does Abhi Arunachalam invest in?
Abhi Arunachalam invests primarily in SaaS, Cloud Security and Cyber Security startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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