Ashu Garg
Board of Directos @ Fortanix
San Francisco, United States
Ashu Garg is a seed investor at Fortanix in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Ashu Garg is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the General Partner at Foundation Capita. Ashu previously worked at TringTring as a Founder. Ashu Garg attended Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Ashu Garg has received the President’s Gold Medal award.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
Last updated:
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Industries Ashu Garg invests in
Stages Ashu Garg invests in
Countries Ashu Garg invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (22%)
- Software 11 (20%)
- Information Technology 11 (20%)
- Analytics 6 (11%)
- SaaS 5 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (30%)
- Series B 11 (20%)
- Series A 10 (19%)
- Series C 6 (11%)
- Funding Round 3 (6%)
Country
- United States 25 (46%)
- India 3 (6%)
- Mexico 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Viven
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Viven is an AI digital twin company that helps enterprises preserve information and enhance decision-making. | $35M / Seed / Oct 15, 2025 | |
Maximor AI
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Maximor provides a unified platform to automate financial operations. It automates the financial close, manages revenue and cash, and generates reports and analysis. The platform uses AI agents and includes human review for accuracy and compliance. | $9M / Seed / Sep 29, 2025 | |
PlayerZero
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PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data. | $15M / Series A / Jul 30, 2025 | |
Spinwheel
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Spinwheel is a software platform that helps Americans get out of debt sooner by embedding solutions in their favorite apps. The company's API infrastructure helps Americans connect, pay, and manage their debts in third-party apps and services. Spinwheel was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $30M / Series A / Jun 23, 2025 | |
Regie.ai
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Regie.ai develops an AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates outbound prospecting and enhances workflow efficiency. The company's platform, RegieOne, integrates sales engagement, parallel dialing, enrichment, and intent data, providing operations teams with a centralized view of their processes | $30M / Series B / Feb 26, 2025 | |
Arize AI
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Arize is a leading AI and agent engineering platform that helps teams design, evaluate, and operate production-grade AI systems with reliability and speed. Built to be independent and interoperable across models, frameworks, and clouds — with open-standard instrumentation at its core — Arize unifies development and production workflows in Arize AX(with Alyx for copilot-powered analysis) and complements them with the open-source Phoenix and OpenInference projects. Arize is headquartered in Berkeley, CA. | $70M / Series C / Feb 20, 2025 | |
Acuvity
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Acuvity is a team of security and AI experts provides the solutions to safely adopt GenAI in enterprises. | $9M / Seed / Sep 05, 2024 | |
Docket
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Docket is an artificial intelligence platform that helps virtual sales engineers to build knowledge graphs using big language models. | $15M / Series A / Jul 25, 2024 | |
Stacklet
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Stacklet is a cloud governance company that provides a platform for enterprises in the cloud computing sector. The company's platform helps organizations with large cloud estates optimize cost, improve security, and ensure compliance by simplifying and automating all aspects of governance through code. Its platform is a governance as codesolution that allows teams to identify and remediate cloud governance issues while establishing preventative guardrails against their recurrence. | $14.5M / Series B / Jun 04, 2024 | |
Anvilogic
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Anvilogic powers the modern Security Operations Center across Data Management, Detection Engineering & Maintenance, and Investigations & Response. By decoupling complex security workflows from data storage, breaking away from the traditional SIEM model, it solves: 1) Security Risks in reducing MTTD/MTTR, detection gaps, alert overload,data quality, detection maintenance & lack of data visibility 2) Accelerates the ability to complete tasks to the equivalent of having 9.5 additional analysts 3) Saves significant storage costs on data storage flexibility (while reducing vendor lock-in) 4) Automate & Orchestrate the most complex security organizational specific workflows. | $45M / Series C / Apr 17, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About Fortanix
Fortanix is building a new security category with its Runtime Encryption(R) technology using Intel SGX. Just like encryption today protects data at rest and data during motion, Runtime Encryption(R) keeps keys, data, and applications completely protected even when infrastructure has been compromised and even root users are malicious.Fortanix's Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS) is a next-generation cloud native solution for your enterprise encryption needs. It offers key generation, management, distribution, encryption-as-a-service, HSM, KMIP, and tokenization all rolled-in as a single product the highest possible level of security and cloud scale. Available as both FIPS certified appliance and a globally available SaaS (with Equinix's strong SLA), SDKMS offers incredible simple central management, server-side load balancing, central tamper-proof logging, RESTful APIs, and Runtime Encryption(R) plugin to run custom code.Fortanix's Runtime Encryption(R) Platform allows customers to bring any docker container and run them securely inside Intel SGX without any modification. It allows customers to share data with each other without losing control of the data, run analytics on sensitive data, run applications securely in remote cloud, move PII-heavy sensitive data to public cloud, etc. Fortanix's Enclave Development Platform (EDP) allows customers to write Rust code to run natively as SGX enclaves. Supported by mainline Rust compiler, developers find EDP as the easiest and the most secure way of developing new applications.In the short time, Fortanix has developed strategic partnership with Equinix and IBM cloud and counts multiple F50 companies as its customers. Fortanix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and also was runner up in RSA Innovation Sandbox among 500+ security companies where judges called it "holy grail of security". Fortanix has more than ten patents pending for its innovation.
Fortanix Contacts
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Faiyaz Shahpurwala
Chief Product & Strategy Officer
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Ambuj Kumar
CEO
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Anand Kashyap
CTO
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Andy Leiserson
Chief Architect
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Ashu Garg
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What does Ashu Garg invest in?
Ashu Garg invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 54 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 Ashu Garg last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ashu Garg closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 54 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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