# Gayathri Radhakrishnan

> Gayathri Radhakrishnan is a Series A investor at Impact Venture Capital backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Impact Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/impact-venture-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gradhakrishnan/

Gayathri Radhakrishnan is an executive with 15 years of experience in the technology sector. In her current role as Director of Strategy and Corporate Development for Dell’s Software Group, she is responsible for driving the long term strategy for Dell’s enterprise software business. She helps drive strategic partnerships, investments (with DellVentures) and acquisitions for the Software Group. She is broadly focused on areas of IoT, Cloud and Advanced Analytics. Prior to Dell, Gayathri was involved in the startup ecosystem as a Partner and Mentor at TechRanch Austin, a startup accelerator, as a VC at Earlybird Venture Capital, a top tier European VC firm and in an operating role at an early stage technology startup.Gayathri has a MS in EE from The Ohio State University and an MBA from INSEAD. She is a Kauffman Fellow and also serves as mentor at Techstars Cloud.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 58% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 42% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| Computer | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 42% |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Archetype AI | Archetype AI is a group of designers and technologists they are pioneering revolutionary artificial intelligence and interaction technologies for the real world. | $35M | Series A | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Pantomath | Pantomath is an automated data operations platform that detects and resolves data issues in real time. | $30M | Series B | Aug 04, 2025 |  |
| Xaba | Xaba operates as an industrial AI-driven control system. | $6M | Seed | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Lineaje | Lineaje solves critical Software Supply Chain security problems faced by every organization that builds, uses or sells software. | $20M | Series A | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Arrcus | Arrcus offers hyper-scale networking software that provides software-powered network transformation for the interconnected world. The company's software improves human experiences by connecting people, machines, and data, and it provides simple-to-use software that spans the infrastructure, from routers to switches to servers, allowingbusinesses to unify manageability and control with the ease of a single network solution that works across the entire network infrastructure and simplifies operations.Arrcus was established in 2016 in San Jose, California by Devesh Garg. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 18, 2024 |  |
| Trustwise AI | Trustwise is an AI safety startup on a mission to democratize AI that is safe, observable, and compliant. | $4M | Seed | Jun 18, 2024 |  |
| Archetype AI | Archetype AI is a group of designers and technologists they are pioneering revolutionary artificial intelligence and interaction technologies for the real world. | $13M | Seed | Apr 05, 2024 |  |
| Arrcus | Arrcus offers hyper-scale networking software that provides software-powered network transformation for the interconnected world. The company's software improves human experiences by connecting people, machines, and data, and it provides simple-to-use software that spans the infrastructure, from routers to switches to servers, allowingbusinesses to unify manageability and control with the ease of a single network solution that works across the entire network infrastructure and simplifies operations.Arrcus was established in 2016 in San Jose, California by Devesh Garg. | $15M | Series D | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| Avicena Tech | It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects. | $25M | Series A | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Red Leader | Red Leader Technologies is a hardware and software company building HD software-defined lidar systems for 3D mapping. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States. | $10M | Series A | May 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clear Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Prosperity7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosperity7-ventures-d527) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Venrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrock) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lenovo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lenovo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liberty Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liberty-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Impact Venture Capital

VC Fund · Burlingame, United States

Impact Venture Capital is a first-time venture fund managed by seasoned general partners. The firm is headquartered in Northern California but has a global investment mandate. Impact Venture Capital works to invest alongside corporate venture groups in early stage information technology startups, with a focus on Telecom, Media, Civic Tech, CyberSecurity, FinTech, and Data Analytics. Impact Venture Capital also manages the Entrepreneur’s Showcase Innovation Programs. These programs are designed to improve the local entrepreneurial ecosystem by igniting, accelerating, and capitalizing participating startups. These founders are building companies to address global challenges in the areas of clean energy, food and water, healthcare, and government.Dixon Doll (founder of DCM Partners and former chair of the NVCA), Eric Ball (former Treasurer of Oracle Corporation), and Jack Crawford (serial entrepreneur and founding partner of Velocity Venture Capital) serve as the firm’s General Partners.For more information, please visit: impactvc.com

5 contacts available at Impact Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gayathri Radhakrishnan | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gayathri-radhakrishnan |
| Kenneth Bossung | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-bossung |
| Aaron Anderson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-anderson-3 |
| Eric Ball | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-ball |
| Jack Crawford | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-crawford |

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## FAQ

### What does Gayathri Radhakrishnan invest in?

Gayathri Radhakrishnan invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Gayathri Radhakrishnan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gayathri Radhakrishnan closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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