Chinnu Senthilkumar
General Partner and Chief Technology Officer @ Exfinity Venture Partners
Bangalore, India
Chinnu Senthilkumar is a Director in board/ Technical Advisor in half a dozen start-up Technology firms both in India and US. He has worked in High-Tech companies focused on Semiconductor/HW industry for nearly two decades, in leading companies like SanDisk Corp., Intel Corp., Texas Instruments, both in US and India. As country head atSandisk, Chinnu played a key role in forging partner relationships with companies like Wipro and HCL to outsource Engineering and IT turnkey projects. Chinnu has authored/co-authored 9 US patents in Semiconductor design/HW systems. Chinnu received "National Technology" award from President of India during his college days for an innovative Technology project (1990). Couple of Tech start-ups Chinnu associated with, were shortlisted for TiE50 (2013) in a worldwide competition. Chinnu holds MSEE from University of Utah, Salt Lake City and B.Tech from Guindy Eng. College.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Chinnu Senthilkumar invests in
Stages Chinnu Senthilkumar invests in
Countries Chinnu Senthilkumar invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (29%)
- Information Technology 3 (21%)
- SaaS 2 (14%)
- Security 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (43%)
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- India 7 (50%)
- United States 2 (14%)
- Singapore 1 (7%)
Investments
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| Optimized Electrotech builds high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at India's most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. The company is currently raising funds for commercial production. | $3.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 27, 2026 | ||
| Chara Technologies is building a scalable, cloud-controlled, and rare-earth-free platform for designing, building, and deploying electric motors for various applications. | $5.9M / Series A / Oct 13, 2025 | ||
| Maieutic Semiconductor aims to revolutionize the traditionally manual and complex process of analog chip design by introducing a GenAI-first platform | $6M / Seed / Jun 03, 2025 | ||
| CloudSEK provides AI-driven cybersecurity solutions that help organizations identify, monitor, and respond to digital risks and external threats. Its platform uses contextual artificial intelligence to scan a wide range of online sources, offering insights into data leaks, brand impersonation, exposed infrastructure, and supply chainvulnerabilities. CloudSEK’s suite includes tools for digital risk protection, attack surface monitoring, supply chain risk tracking, and proactive threat intelligence alerts that support security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential issues. The technology correlates threat data across surface web, deep web, and dark web signals to give contextualized alerts and visibility into an organization’s external attack surface. CloudSEK also supports integration of its threat insights into existing security systems to streamline risk management workflows. | $19M / Series B / May 20, 2025 | ||
| Aarna Networks solves enterprise edge and private 5G management complexity through zero-touch edge infrastructure, applications, and network services orchestration at scale. The company provides GPU-as-a-Service through a GPU Cloud Management Software for AI cloud providers. | $1.2M / Series A / Sep 25, 2024 | ||
| Chara Technologies is building a scalable, cloud-controlled, and rare-earth-free platform for designing, building, and deploying electric motors for various applications. | $4.8M / Seed / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| During our lifetime, 1 in 3 of us will get cancer. But cancer diagnosis is slow and expensive because doctors are not equipped with modern automated tools. Qritive provides an AI-powered solution to help doctors analyse both microscopy images and text from patient data. As a result, hospitals will be more efficient in making cancer diagnoses,allowing them to save costs. | $7.5M / Series A / Jan 09, 2023 | ||
| Awidit offers a video intelligence OS by utilizing the applications of computer vision and AI. | $7M / Series A / Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| Log 9 Materials Scientific Private Limited is a graphene research and development company. At Log 9 Materials we are determined to accelerate the commercialization of graphene nanotechnology. We have just developed the first commercial product on graphene- 'Smoke-safe'. This innovative graphene based cigarette filter reduces the risk ofgetting cancer by 90%. We offer a wide range of graphene (CVD graphene, rGO) and its derivatives. We bring to you graphene as researchers and not just manufactures, so we understand the triviality of the grade of our products. | $5M / Series A / Aug 09, 2021 | ||
| Vernacular.ai is an AI-first SaaS business driven with the mission to end bad call center experiences. We help enterprises in enhancing customer experience through intelligent voice conversations by automating call center queries.VIVA (Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant) is our Voice AI-powered call center automation platform that helpsenterprises streamline contact center operations and enhance customer experience & engagement.Empowered by our speech recognition engine and natural language understanding technology, you can now hold human-like conversations every time and Increase your self-service effectiveness. | $5.1M / Series A / May 06, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
Exfinity Venture Partners LLP is focused on funding Technology Ventures but with a difference. We seek to act as a strategic partner to portfolio companies through high impact interventions. Exfinity is promoted by Technology Industry leaders having collective operating experience of over 200 years in a global environment. Our approach seeks toleverage our understanding of global markets, technology trends and proprietary networks to add unmatched value to portfolio companies.
Exfinity Venture Partners Contacts
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Arundhati Menon
Analyst
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Chinnu Senthilkumar
General Partner and Chief Technology Officer
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Nihar Ranjan
Venture Partner
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Shailesh Ghorpade
Managing Partner and CIO
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V Balakrishnan
Partner, Co-Founder
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What does Chinnu Senthilkumar invest in?
Chinnu Senthilkumar invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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