# Sandhya Venkatachalam

> Sandhya Venkatachalam is a seed investor at Khosla Ventures backing Software and Machine Learning. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sandhyavenkatachalam
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/svenkatachalam
- Website: http://www.khoslaventures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sandhya.venkatachalam.0

Sandhya Venkatachalam is a Partner at Khosla Ventures focused on AI/ML and Enterprise/B2B technology companies Sandhya holds an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and an A.B. in Economics magna cum laude from Harvard University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 47% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 33% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series G | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series F | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yutori | Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own. | $15M | Seed | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Relay | Relay helps to streamline team’s workflows and automate mundane tasks. | $5M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Relay | Relay lets you create playbooks for the operational workflows your team relies on, letting you combine human tasks and automated actions in a single playbook. | $5M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Remio | Remio delivers a pre-configured VR headset to each team member and hosts the entire team for fun team-building experiences. Known as one of "the most fun ways to connect business teams", the VR HQ also offers collaboration tools such as whiteboarding, Jira project planning, and presentation rooms. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Fireflies.ai | Fireflies works across all the major video-conferencing platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, etc. Search your meetings and have your meeting data automatically populated inside apps like Salesforce, Slack, and Dropbox.Fireflies.ai was founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong and is based in San Francisco,California, United States. | $14M | Series A | May 24, 2021 |  |
| Fireflies.ai | Fireflies works across all the major video-conferencing platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, etc. Search your meetings and have your meeting data automatically populated inside apps like Salesforce, Slack, and Dropbox.Fireflies.ai was founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong and is based in San Francisco,California, United States. | $4.9M | Seed | Oct 28, 2019 |  |
| Lunchclub | Lunchclub is an AI superconnector that makes introductions for 1:1 lunch and coffee meetings. Vladimir Novakovski, Hayley Leibson, and Scott Wu founded it in 2018, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $4M | Seed | Sep 18, 2019 |  |
| Forethought | Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge. | $9M | Series A | Dec 04, 2018 |  |
| Groq | Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $52.3M |  | Sep 05, 2018 |  |
| Groq | Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $52.3M | Series B | Sep 05, 2018 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cambium Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambium-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crosslink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosslink-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Khosla Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

5 contacts available at Khosla Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Gartner | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-gartner |
| Ethan Choi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethan-choi |
| Evan Moore | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evan-moore |
| Kanu Gulati | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanu-gulati |
| Sandhya Venkatachalam | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandhya-venkatachalam |

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## FAQ

### What does Sandhya Venkatachalam invest in?

Sandhya Venkatachalam invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 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 Sandhya Venkatachalam last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sandhya Venkatachalam closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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