# Chinnu Senthilkumar

> Chinnu Senthilkumar is a Series A investor at Reservoir Investment Managers backing Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Reservoir Investment Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reservoir-investment-managers)
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinnu-senthilkumar-45b2ab5/

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| Security | 2 | 14% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 43% |
| Seed | 4 | 29% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 7 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Singapore | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Optimized Electrotech | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Qritive | 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 |  |
| Awiros | Awidit offers a video intelligence OS by utilizing the applications of computer vision and AI. | $7M | Series A | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Log 9 Materials | 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 |  |
| Skit | 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 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inflexor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inflexor-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kalaari Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalaari-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mela Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mela-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [StartupXseed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startupxseed-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IIMA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ciie-iim-ahmedabad) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MassMutual Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massmutual-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Reservoir Investment Managers

VC Fund · Bangalore, India

Reservoir Investment Managers LLP (Reservoir) is an investment management company focused on funding Technology Ventures but with a difference. Reservoir seeks to act as a strategic partner to the investee companies providing high impact interventions to make them successful.

2 contacts available at Reservoir Investment Managers.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chinnu Senthilkumar | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chinnu-senthil-kumar |
| Shailesh Ghorpade | Managing Partner & CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shailesh-ghorpade |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Chinnu Senthilkumar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chinnu Senthilkumar closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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