# Gaurav Tewari

> Gaurav Tewari is a Series D investor at Omega Venture Partners backing Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Omega Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omega-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gtewari
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/GTMIT
- Website: https://x.com/GTMIT
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gtmit

Gaurav Tewari is an accomplished and experienced technology investor, innovation leader, entrepreneur, strategist, and dealmaker. Mr. Tewari currently holds, or has held, senior investment management roles at Omega Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, SAP Ventures, and Highland Capital. His professional experience additionally spans leadership rolesat globally-renowned organizations including Microsoft, IBM, and McKinsey & Company. Mr. Tewari has been honored with awards and recognized for his contributions by national and international organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Ford Foundation, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Computing Research Association (CRA), Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), IBM Corporation, Microsoft, the Omnicom Media Group, and others. Mr. Tewari has invented 9 issued US patents and has authored original research papers relating to innovation, technology, and society that have been published in conference proceedings, academic journals, and books.Mr. Tewari graduated as Valedictorian of the MBA program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science and Economics with distinction from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 57% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Email | 1 | 14% |
| Computer | 1 | 14% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tungsten Automation | Tungsten Automation, formerly Kofax, is the global leader in intelligent workflow automation solutions with a trusted legacy of 40 years, Our commitment to innovation and customer success has earned us industry recognition, including being named a Leader in IA and IDP by Everest Group and Process Orchestration by Forrester. |  |  | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Forward Networks | Forward Networks delivers an innovative platform that provides network visibility, policy verification, and change modeling. Designed to help network teams eliminate costly network outages, the Forward Networks platform enables engineers and operators to easily visualize and search complex networks, quickly debug problems, verify network-widepolicy correctness, and predict network behavior prior to making changes to production equipment — for legacy, SDN, or hybrid environments. Fortune 100 financial institutions, telcos, and IT service providers use Forward Networks to de-risk business operations and drive operational efficiency. Founded by a team of PhDs who helped pioneer SDN at Stanford, Forward Networks is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and funded by Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, A Capital, and several luminaries in the networking and systems space. | $50M | Series D | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Elemental Machines | Elemental Machines is revolutionizing science-based industries with a smart lab platform that offers powerful, data-driven insights to improve laboratory operations, research, development, and manufacturing outcomes. Continuously monitoring equipment and environmental variables provides new levels of clarity, transparency, consistency, and improvedrepeatability and gathers new data sets for advanced analytics. | $41.9M | Series B | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| Language I/O | The future of translation is conversational and Language I/O’s proprietary machine translation optimization technology ensures that every conversation is understood. Their machine translation optimizer can translate difficult to translate user-generated content such as jargon, slang, abbreviations, and misspellings in 150 languages over chat,email, article, and social support channels.Language I/O seamlessly integrates within all major CRMs and also provides an API. Finally, we let customers decide whether to use professional human linguists, our machine translation optimizer, or a combination of the two. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Tungsten Automation | Tungsten Automation, formerly Kofax, is the global leader in intelligent workflow automation solutions with a trusted legacy of 40 years, Our commitment to innovation and customer success has earned us industry recognition, including being named a Leader in IA and IDP by Everest Group and Process Orchestration by Forrester. |  |  | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| aPriori Technologies | aPriori is a provider of digital manufacturing simulation software. By leveraging the digital twin with our digital factories, they automatically generate design for manufacturability (DFM) and design to cost (DTC) insights, helping manufacturers collaborate across the product development process to make better design, sourcing and manufacturingdecisions, drive product costs lower, and create higher value products in less time.aPriori also provides discrete manufacturers and product innovation companies with the most technologically advanced and comprehensive product cost management software and service solutions available on the market today. These solutions fundamentally change the way companies calculate and manage product costs, enabling more informed design, manufacturing, and sourcing decisions that drive significant cost out of products, both pre- and post-production. | $30M | Series D | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| VIOLIN systems | Violin, the disruptive innovator in Extreme Performance Storage, is revolutionizing how businesses operate by enabling storage technology to be Instrumental to their company by changing the SLAs and capabilities of information and application storage infrastructure. Violin extreme storage platforms, powered by Concerto OS™, a fully integratedstorage operating system, is the industry leader in the combination of every significant category measured in all-flash arrays: low latency, reliability, affordability, density, scalability, and of course extreme performance. With tightly integrated data services, Violin storage platforms provide a unique and leading combination of data protection, business continuity, and data reduction services in a flexible, delivering significant CAPEX and OPEX savings.Violin Systems is headquartered in San Jose, California. Violin Memory, founded in 2005 was acquired in 2017 by Quantum Partners LP, a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC, fueling the emergence of new Violin Systems. | $50M | Series D | Mar 30, 2012 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gutbrain Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gutbrain-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Caruso Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caruso-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Digitalis Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digitalis-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Seeds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-seeds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Omega Venture Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Omega invests in Intelligent Software for the Enterprise breakout companies that leverage Artificial and Machine Intelligence to deliver best-of-breed solutions and new revenue streams. The firm strives to be the partner of choice for rapidly growing and consequential companies that can benefit society-at-large and help maximize human potentialthrough technology.

5 contacts available at Omega Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Gounares | Equity Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-gounares |
| Alex Bilzerian | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-bilzerian |
| Craig Johnson | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-johnson-7 |
| Gaurav Tewari | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaurav-tewari |
| Josh Goldman | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-goldman |

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## FAQ

### What does Gaurav Tewari invest in?

Gaurav Tewari invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and SaaS startups, most often at Series D and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Gaurav Tewari last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gaurav Tewari closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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