# Dharmesh Thakker

> Dharmesh Thakker is a Series A investor at Battery Ventures backing Software. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dthakker/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dthakker02
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Dharmesh Thakker is a Series A investor at Battery Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Dharmesh Thakker is based out of Boston, Massachusetts and is the General Partner of Battery Ventures. Dharmesh previously worked at Intel Capital as a Managing Director. Dharmesh Thakker attended the Wharton School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 34% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 13% |
| SaaS | 4 | 11% |
| Database | 4 | 11% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 24% |
| Series B | 9 | 24% |
| Series C | 3 | 8% |
| Series D | 3 | 8% |
| Series E | 3 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 53% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Freehand | Freehand provides an AI-powered supply chain spend management platform that uses AI teams to analyze contracts, invoices, vendor data, and operational records. The platform automates tasks such as invoice auditing, spend analysis, contract enforcement, exception handling, and dispute resolution, with outputs integrated into enterprise systems. | $75M | Series B | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| AegisAI | AegisAI is a next-generation email security technology that uses self-driving AI agents to analyse each email like a human analyst would. | $36M | Series A | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Opal Security | Opal Security is a modern, data-centric identity security platform. Opal Security helps organizations reduce access sprawl, manage identity attack surfaces, and enforce policies that are secure by default. Opal Security is based in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please visit www.opal.dev or reach us at hello@opal.dev. | $23M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Orkes | Orkes provides a cloud-based platform for orchestrating workflows across microservices, APIs, and distributed systems, enabling developers to manage complex application processes and integrations. Its platform is built on the open-source Conductor project and delivers a managed service that supports workflow execution, event-driven architectures,and long-running processes. The system includes capabilities such as workflow modeling, state management, monitoring, and access control, which help track executions and maintain operational reliability. It also supports integration with various programming languages, cloud environments, and external services, allowing teams to define workflows as code and coordinate business logic across systems. Additionally, the platform incorporates features for observability and governance, offering visibility into workflows and tools to manage performance, errors, and system behavior in production environments. | $60M | Series B | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Jump | Jump is an AI-powered assistant that redefines how wealth advisors manage their client interactions and compliance tasks. Created to turn conversations into actionable tasks, comprehensive notes, and compliance records, Jump offers a complete solution for advisors seeking efficiency and accuracy in their daily operations. | $80M | Series B | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Unify | Our vision is to reinvent how outbound sales works. | $40M | Series B | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| ClickHouse | ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system that focuses on real-time analytical reporting. It enables users to execute complex SQL queries efficiently, making it suitable for applications that require fast data processing and analysis. The system is particularly effective for big data environments, allowingorganizations to manage and analyze large volumes of information seamlessly. ClickHouse supports various data ingestion methods and offers features that facilitate data warehousing and observability. Its architecture is designed to optimize performance and scalability, catering to the needs of sales teams and data analysts seeking actionable insights from their data. | $350M | Series C | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Arize AI | 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 |  |
| Jump | Jump is an AI-powered assistant that redefines how wealth advisors manage their client interactions and compliance tasks. Created to turn conversations into actionable tasks, comprehensive notes, and compliance records, Jump offers a complete solution for advisors seeking efficiency and accuracy in their daily operations. | $24.6M | Series A | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| ZeroTier | ZeroTier, Inc. offers the fastest, most flexible solution to deploy and maintain secure peer-to-peer networks. Supporting over two million devices globally with a proud open-source heritage, ZeroTier provides unrivaled ease of connectivity and management for modern networking use cases. ZeroTier is trusted by organizations in an expansive range ofglobal industries including Information Technology, Cloud, Telecommunications, IoT, Manufacturing, Media, Automotive, Aerospace, and Defense. For more information, visit https://www.ZeroTier.com or follow us on Twitter @ZeroTier. | $13.5M | Series A | Jul 26, 2024 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Battery Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

5 contacts available at Battery Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brandon Gleklen | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-gleklen |
| Dharmesh Thakker | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dharmesh-thakker |
| Lior Mallul | Early and Growth Software Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lior-mallul |
| Max-Julian Kaye | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-julian-kaye |
| Scott Tobin | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-tobin |

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## FAQ

### What does Dharmesh Thakker invest in?

Dharmesh Thakker invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 38 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 Dharmesh Thakker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dharmesh Thakker closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 38 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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