# Sanjay Pichaiah

> Sanjay Pichaiah is a Series D investor at OpenX (Los Altos) backing Enterprise Software and SaaS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OpenX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openx)
- Location: Los Altos, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Nov 2012
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pichaiah/
- Website: http://www.mitsuiventures.com/en/member/mcvp_member.html#mcvp_sanjay

Sanjay Pichaiah is a Series D investor at OpenX in Los Altos focused on Enterprise Software and SaaS. Sanjay brings 10 years of collective experience in Principal Investments, Investment Banking/M&A, Operations and Engineering. Previously, he worked at Bear Stearns & Co, providing M&A advisory work in Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) sector. He also worked at Millennium Technology Ventures, where he was involved intraditional and alternate venture investments and helped launch a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). Sanjay also held various roles within Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives Group a venture incubator arm of Intel Capital. While at Intel he focused in communications infrastructure and technology sector. He joined Intel through the acquisition of Level One Communications, where he started his career as a R&D engineer.He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Madras, India, MS in Electrical Engineering from California State University and a MBA from Cornell University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Mobile | 1 | 14% |
| Computer | 1 | 14% |
| Internet | 1 | 14% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 3 | 43% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kaltura | Kaltura’s mission is to power any video experience for any organization. Our Video Experience Cloud offers live, real-time, and on-demand video products for enterprises of all industries, as well as specialized industry solutions, currently for educational institutions and for media and telecom companies. Underlying our products and solutions is abroad set of Media Services that are also used by other cloud platforms and companies to power video experiences and workflows for their own products. Kaltura’s Video Experience Cloud is used by leading brands reaching millions of users, at home, at school and at work, for communication, collaboration, training, marketing, sales, customer care, teaching, learning, virtual events, and entertainment experiences. | $25M | Series D | Nov 20, 2012 |  |
| Virident Systems | Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory (SCM), a class of disruptive technologies which includes flash memory, that can revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by redefining the memory-storage hierarchy. However, these technologies have traditionally presented significant performance, reliability,and serviceability problems. Virident Systems brings its substantial know-how and intellectual property in this area to create hardware and software solutions that solve these problems. The tachIOnâ„¢ solid-state disk eclipses competing storage products by enabling customers to tackle data-intensive applications with 4-10x predictable performance, sustained over the life of the product, and with enterprise-class reliability and serviceability. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. The company has built world-class expertise in flash and flash-like technologies and assembled a world-class team focused on the use of these technologies by modern applications. This expertise gives the company a unique view into how such disruptive technologies can be used to solve some of the most challenging problems in data centers and cloud computing deployments. | $26M | Series D | Sep 18, 2012 |  |
| Virident Systems | Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory (SCM), a class of disruptive technologies which includes flash memory, that can revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by redefining the memory-storage hierarchy. However, these technologies have traditionally presented significant performance, reliability,and serviceability problems. Virident Systems brings its substantial know-how and intellectual property in this area to create hardware and software solutions that solve these problems. The tachIOnâ„¢ solid-state disk eclipses competing storage products by enabling customers to tackle data-intensive applications with 4-10x predictable performance, sustained over the life of the product, and with enterprise-class reliability and serviceability. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. The company has built world-class expertise in flash and flash-like technologies and assembled a world-class team focused on the use of these technologies by modern applications. This expertise gives the company a unique view into how such disruptive technologies can be used to solve some of the most challenging problems in data centers and cloud computing deployments. | $5.7M |  | Jul 01, 2012 |  |
| MoBeam | Mobeam, inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light-based communications technology. Overcoming the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with laser scanners at checkout, Mobeam’s technology provides universal access at the point of sale (POS), enabling the transmission of coupons, gift cards,tickets, and other barcode data at retailers worldwide. Mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure. Mobeam was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $1.5M | Series A | Feb 06, 2012 |  |
| MoBeam | Mobeam, inc. is transforming mobile commerce with its unique and patented light-based communications technology. Overcoming the technical barrier preventing mobile phones from interacting with laser scanners at checkout, Mobeam’s technology provides universal access at the point of sale (POS), enabling the transmission of coupons, gift cards,tickets, and other barcode data at retailers worldwide. Mobeam’s technology powers new capabilities for existing mobile phone designs, and requires no changes to retailer POS infrastructure. Mobeam was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $4.9M | Series A | Oct 03, 2011 |  |
| Redwood Systems | Redwood Systems' LED lighting system architecture helps customers reduce energy costs while providing a degree of control and automation of commercial lighting never before possible. | $3.5M |  | Jun 02, 2011 |  |
| OpenX | OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format. The company’s leading technology aggregates, curates and values consumer interest in real time on one of the world’s largest and highest quality ad exchanges to ensuremarketers reach exactly the audience they want. OpenX serves more than 30,000 of the world’s most recognized brands, more than 1,200 websites and more than 2,000 premium mobile apps. | $20M | Series D | May 31, 2011 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Artiman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artiman-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Globespan Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globespan-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aol Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aol-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About OpenX

VC Fund · Pasadena, United States

OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format. The company’s leading technology aggregates, curates and values consumer interest in real time on one of the world’s largest and highest quality ad exchanges to ensuremarketers reach exactly the audience they want. OpenX serves more than 30,000 of the world’s most recognized brands, more than 1,200 websites and more than 2,000 premium mobile apps.

5 contacts available at OpenX.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sanjay Pichaiah | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjay-pichaiah |
| Andrew Tu | Managing Director, APAC | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-tu-ddf1 |
| Jason Fairchild | Title Co-Founder & Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-fairchild |
| John Gentry | president & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-gentry-2 |
| Mark Liao | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-liao |

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## FAQ

### What does Sanjay Pichaiah invest in?

Sanjay Pichaiah invests primarily in Enterprise Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series D and Funding Round 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 Sanjay Pichaiah last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sanjay Pichaiah closed in Nov 2012. 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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