# Arun Penmetsa

> Arun Penmetsa is a Series A investor at ShoCard backing Software and Information Technology. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ShoCard](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shocard-inc)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunpenmetsa/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/arun_penmetsa

Arun Penmetsa is a Principal at Storm Ventures where he invests in early stage Mobile and SaaS companies. He has extensive experience building enterprise software solutions. At Oracle, Arun helped build the data management platform for Enterprise Manager where he focused on software and product development. Prior to Oracle, he was an early memberof the Google Apps for Business team at Google. Arun is passionate about entrepreneurship and focuses on working with founders to create innovative solutions.Arun was born in India. He has earned an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and served on the school’s Academic Committee. He has a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he was the recipient of the Terman fellowship.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 25% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 19% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 44% |
| Series B | 4 | 25% |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 69% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tote.ai | Tote.ai presents an AI-native point-of-sale system that unifies pump-to-checkout shopping, streamlines operations, and supports associates. | $22.6M |  | Aug 18, 2025 |  |
| Carta Healthcare | Carta empowers hospitals to personalize the delivery of care to the individual needs of each patient. The approach Carta Healthcare is advocating and enabling is to: find past patients similar to the current one being treated; quantify what exactly happened to them during their journey through the hospital (this is where our model comes in) and;use machine learning to project what the particular patient in question will need, and what the patient can expect their experience to be in the hospital. Carta was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States. | $18.3M | Series B | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Atomicwork | Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that allows users to find information and get help at work. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $25M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Flywl | Flywheel Dynamix is a cloud meta-marketplace transforming how enterprises buy and sell cloud software with unmatched trust, visibility, and efficiency. | $7M | Seed | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Atomicwork | Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that allows users to find information and get help at work. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Atomicwork | Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that allows users to find information and get help at work. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $11M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Compa | Compa provides a software platform that supplies compensation data and analytical tools for corporate pay decision processes. The company offers real-time market compensation information drawn from internal systems and a secure network to support benchmarking of employee cash, offers, equity, and skills-based pay. It also delivers AI-drivenanalysis agents that help interpret market trends, assess pay strategy, and support compensation planning workflows. Compa’s platform connects with human capital and applicant tracking systems to automate data integration and reduce manual work. The service emphasizes structured insights that align compensation strategy with market conditions and organizational policies. | $10M | Series A | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| Dasera | Dasera is a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform that automates security and governance controls across structured and unstructured data in your cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. It empowers organizations to manage risk across their entire data lifecycle, from creation to deletion, ensuring compliance with evolving data privacyregulations. | $12M | Series A | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| Airgap Networks | Ransomware threat is growing rapidly. While there are a whole bunch of security companies that are trying to prevent ransomware from getting into your network, Airgap's "Zero Trust Isolation Platform" protects your organization even if your perimeter is breached or if you have unpatched vulnerable servers inside your data center.Additionally, Airgap's "Ransomware Kill Switch" is the most potent ransomware response for the IT organization. Airgap can be deployed in minutes without any agents, forklift upgrades, or design changes. The company is founded by highly experienced cybersecurity experts and the solution is trusted by large enterprises and service providers. For more details, check out https://airgap.io | $13.4M | Series A | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Clear Skye | Clear Skye delivers a complete Identity and Access Governance (IAG) solution. It provides employee lifecycle automation, access requests, access certifications, and business intelligence. It allows for complete integration of governance and business processes, which supports the explosion of applications and complex workflow needs. | $14M | Series A | Mar 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Z47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-india) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cervin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cervin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Emergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergent-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Frontline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontline-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mass General Brigham Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mass-general-brigham-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About ShoCard

VC Fund · Cupertino, United States

ShoCard is a digital identity that protects consumer privacy and is as easy to understand and use as showing a driver’s license. It’s optimized for mobile and so secure that a bank can rely on it.

5 contacts available at ShoCard.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ali Nazem | Vice President, Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-nazem |
| Arun Penmetsa | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-penmetsa |
| Bhavya Chauhan | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bhavya-chauhan |
| Dennis Sugar | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-sugar |
| Gaurav Khot | Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaurav-khot |

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## FAQ

### What does Arun Penmetsa invest in?

Arun Penmetsa invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Arun Penmetsa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arun Penmetsa closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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