Ram Shriram
Founder & Managing Partner @ Sherpalo Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Ram Shriram is a Series A investor at Sherpalo Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior to that, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Ram Shriram invests in
Stages Ram Shriram invests in
Countries Ram Shriram invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$14M
- Series A
- $2.6M–$31M
- Series B
- $6M–$55M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 26 (30%)
- Artificial Intelligence 15 (17%)
- Internet 10 (12%)
- Information Technology 10 (12%)
- Finance 8 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 31 (36%)
- Seed 24 (28%)
- Series B 8 (9%)
- Angel 6 (7%)
- Funding Round 5 (6%)
Country
- United States 58 (67%)
- India 6 (7%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Sweden 1 (1%)
- Finland 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Runta is the execution layer for AI agents. Agent execution layer for token efficiency, secret protection, and governed access. | $20M / Seed / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Iconic leverages AI and automation for better buyer matching and valuations. | $6M / Seed / May 27, 2026 | ||
| Skyroot Aerospace is an aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider developing launch vehicles for cost-effective access to space. Skyroot builds technologies for responsive, reliable, and economic access to space. They envision a future where spaceflight is as regular, reliable, and affordable as air flight. | $60M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 07, 2026 | ||
| Cosmoserve Space is developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to mitigate the rapidly growing problem of orbital debris. | $3.2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 25, 2025 | ||
| Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company. | $10.5M / Series A / Jul 30, 2025 | ||
| Avantis Labs promises to offer institutional and private investors the opportunity to trade cryptocurrencies and RWAs with up to 100x leverage on their decentralized exchange. Better market-making and trading infrastructure for DeFi derivatives is also intended to be provided, as well as "scalable, capital-efficient composability, | $8M / Series A / Jun 03, 2025 | ||
| Unbound enables employees to securely utilize AI tools in their work while safeguarding company secrets. | $4M / Seed / May 29, 2025 | ||
| GridCARE provides energy security and resilience at a never-before-seen pace, making it the indispensable one-stop power solution for AI data centers. | $13.5M / Seed / May 27, 2025 | ||
World Labs
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World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities. | $230M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 13, 2024 | |
| Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development.. | $33M / Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Sherpalo Ventures
Sherpalo is a mentor capital firm that supports the development and commercialization of early-stage disruptive new technologies. To guide and mentor exceptional entrepreneurs in taking their disruptive ideas and technology and turning them into successful businesses. They're looking for innovative entrepreneurs with an idea - a great idea - who have started to gather a team, develop a plan, and design the defensible technology to bring the idea to fruition. Building a business can be a rugged experience. Young companies face numerous challenges as they seek to grow and gain traction. For Founder leaders it is invaluable to have an experienced sherpa guide to share the load and make success come a little easier, perhaps a little faster and with fewer mistakes. They've done this before at Netscape, Amazon, and Google - some of the foremost online companies of the decade. Ram Shriram and Sherpalo can help guide your enterprise to the summit by providing assistance in; a) Identifying and hiring key management personnel; b) Making the right product choices; c) Defining and adapting your business model to changing market conditions; d) Identifying appropriate market entry points; e) Helping you to secure early customer wins; f) Building momentum from a standing start; g) Generating international growth; h) Providing an independent and pragmatic voice of reason and making necessary judgment calls when you don't have all the facts. Sherpalo works with only a few outstanding teams each year, in order to devote the time, energy and resources required to guide a fledgling company to the summit of business success.
Sherpalo Ventures Contacts
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FAQ
What does Ram Shriram invest in?
Ram Shriram invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ram Shriram invest in?
Ram Shriram typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$14M at Seed, $2.6M–$31M at Series A and $6M–$55M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ram Shriram's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ram Shriram took part in.
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When did Ram Shriram last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ram Shriram closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 86 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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