# Raghu Raghuram

> Raghu Raghuram is a seed investor at Andreessen Horowitz backing Artificial Intelligence. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/raghu-raghuram/0/3b/51
- Website: https://x.com/RaghuRaghuram

Raghu Raghuram is a seed investor at Andreessen Horowitz in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology. Raghu Raghuram is based out of San Mateo, California and is the Managing Partner and a General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Raghu previously worked at VMware as a CEO. Raghu Raghuram attended Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 75% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 63% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Israel | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Volta | Volta is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform. The company develops, finances, builds, and operates AI factories by integrating institutional capital, powered land, data centers, compute, software, and operations. | $300M | Series A | Aug 04, 2026 |  |
| Arato | Arato.ai is an advanced AI agent simulation platform that helps organizations test, evaluate, and monitor generative LLM applications for production readiness. The system autonomously generates dynamic, real world user scenarios to execute thousands of multi turn conversations against AI agents to identify hallucinations, security threats, and UXdrifts. | $10M | Seed | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Nexthop AI | Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their networkperformance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies. | $500M | Series B | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Inferact | The aim of Inferact is to make vLLM the leading AI inference engine in the world and advance AI by lowering the cost and speed of inference. | $150M | Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Gimlet Labs | Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on developing next-generation AI infrastructure. | $12M | Seed | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Lanai | Lanai provides an AI-driven empowerment platform to help enterprises discover, protect, and accelerate human-AI collaboration. It offers a suite of tools designed to enhance developer productivity, focusing on improving the workflow for software teams. Its platform provides features that enable better project management, task coordination, andreal-time collaboration. | $10M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Atero | Atero provides a proprietary technology platform that improves GPU management and memory optimization for AI. | $12M | Seed | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| Colabo | Colabo provides a No-Code PaaS for creating and orchestrating AI-powered digital conversations. Business users can create frictionless employee-facing or customer-facing conversational channels in minutes by simply pointing to the relevant knowledge sources, service description, product catalogs, FAQ pages etc. Colabo's platform ingestunstructured and structured data and creates a knowledge graph that is used to answer a wide variety of natural language questions "out-of-the-box". In addition, when the platform encounters a request it can't find a proper answer for, it allows a human agent to show it the path to the relevant information and teach it on the fly. Colabo can be used for different use cases such as new user acquisition and on-boarding, service and product recommendation, customer support and employee support . | $1.5M | Seed | May 07, 2014 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Altimeter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altimeter-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Azora](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azora) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bag ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bag-ventures-428c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Databricks Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/databricks-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Andreessen Horowitz

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services,consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

5 contacts available at Andreessen Horowitz.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Chen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-chen |
| Anish Acharya | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anish-acharya |
| David George | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-george-2 |
| Emily Bennett | investing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-bennett |
| Gabriel Vasquez | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-vasquez-db03 |

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## FAQ

### What does Raghu Raghuram invest in?

Raghu Raghuram invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Raghu Raghuram's check size?

Raghu Raghuram typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$150M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Raghu Raghuram participates in.

### When did Raghu Raghuram last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Raghu Raghuram closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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