# Ash Ashutosh

> Ash Ashutosh is a Series A investor at Pinecone (Boston) backing Analytics and Virtualization. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pinecone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pinecone)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashashutosh
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ashashutosh
- Website: https://x.com/ashashutosh
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ash.ashutosh

Ash Ashutosh is a Series A investor at Pinecone in Boston focused on Analytics and Virtualization. Ash Ashutosh is based out of Boston, Massachusetts and is the CEO of Pinecone. Ash previously worked at Google as Global Director Solution Sales. Ash Ashutosh attended Penn State University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 1 | 100% |
| Virtualization | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |
| Information Services | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Actifio | Actifio delivers Enterprise Data-as-a-Service to hundreds of global enterprise customers and service provider partners in more than 30 countries.Actifio helps hundreds of global enterprise customers and service provider partners in more than 30 countries around the world virtualize their data, just as they virtualized their servers and networks.Their Virtual Data Pipeline™ technology decouples data from infrastructure, enabling dramatic improvements in business resiliency, agility, and access to the cloud.Actifio replaces siloed data management applications with a radically simple, application-centric, SLA-driven approach that lets customers capture data from production applications, manage it more economically, and use it when and where they need. The result is enterprise data available for any use, anytime, anywhere, for less. | $8M | Series A | Jul 21, 2010 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [83North](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock-partners-israel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-bridge-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pinecone

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Pinecone provides a similarity search as a service. It lets developers search through billions of items for similar matches to any object, in milliseconds. It’s the next generation of search, an API call away.

4 contacts available at Pinecone.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ash Ashutosh | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ash-ashutosh |
| Amir Sadoughi | Head of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amir-sadoughi |
| Greg Kogan | VP of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-kogan |
| Lior Ehrenfeld | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lior-ehrenfeld |

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## FAQ

### What does Ash Ashutosh invest in?

Ash Ashutosh invests primarily in Analytics, Virtualization and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 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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