# Sherpalo Ventures

> Sherpalo Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Software and Mobile. See 78 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 78
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last fund: Apr 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.sherpalo.com

Sherpalo Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Mobile. 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 greatidea - 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$6.4M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$20M |
| Series B | $8M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 21% |
| Mobile | 8 | 10% |
| Internet | 7 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 9% |

114 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 31 | 40% |
| Seed | 12 | 15% |
| Series B | 12 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 10% |
| Series C | 7 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 42 | 54% |
| India | 11 | 14% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ram Shriram | Founder & Managing Partner | 86 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ram-shriram |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Skyroot Aerospace | 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 |  |
| Antheia | Antheia is unlocking the medicinal power of nature. Its synthetic biology platform surpasses the limits of conventional drug discovery and manufacturing through a novel approach to whole-cell engineering —reconstructing complex molecules in yeast to bring to market next-generation plant-inspired medicines. | $56M | Series C | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| GridCARE | 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 |  |
| CheQ Digital | CheQ Digital operates as a fintech startup. CheQ is a website that aims to make it easier for users to find and manage their credit products online. | $6.4M | Seed | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| Acryl Data | Acryl Data is to empower data teams with extreme productivity, using trusted, compliant data through a next-generation metadata platform. | $21M | Series A | Jun 21, 2023 |  |
| DataHub | DataHub Core is the #1 open source platform with a uniquely scalable and extensible metadata graph supporting manual and automated data management. DataHub Cloud is an enterprise-ready SaaS solution providing a fully-managed service of DataHub Core with additional AI-powered capabilities in discovery, observability, and governance to accelerateproduction-readiness of AI and data assets. | $21M | Series A | Jun 21, 2023 |  |
| Aisera | Aisera’s AI Agent Platform is a multi-agent system that consists of a universal agent for request orchestration, domain agents with contextual intelligence across IT, HR, Finance, Procurement, and more, and task agents that execute tasks through integrations with ServiceNow, Workday, Salesforce, and other enterprise systems. The platform isfuture-proof and vendor-agnostic, enabling organizations to deploy out-of-the-box agentic solutions or custom-build agents on the same platform. Designed as a horizontal solution, it scales seamlessly across all enterprise functions to deliver autonomous self-service, personalized resolutions, omnichannel engagement, and enterprise-wide productivity gains. Aisera Assistant, grounded in enterprise data and ontologies, delivers instant self-service by enabling employees to securely access information and execute actions across enterprise applications and systems. Embedded in collaboration channels like Slack and Microsoft Teams, it understands context, supports digital and voice channels, provides proactive notifications, retrieves knowledge from public and private sources, extracts insights from documents, and works seamlessly across multiple languages. With capabilities that drive a zero ticket service desk, maximize case deflection, and reduce MTTD and MTTR, Aisera Assistant transforms user experiences.Aisera’s Agent Assist leverages domain-specific LLMs to enhance agent productivity with contextual answers, case summarization, and next-best action recommendations. Embedded into platforms like ServiceNow, Zendesk, and Salesforce, it enables real-time knowledge retrieval, swarm collaboration, case identification, and case wrap-up - empowering agents to resolve complex issues faster. Aisera's AI Agent platform delivers exponential cost efficiencies, higher organizational productivity and an enhanced user experience, enabling enterprises to autonomously understand, reason, and proactively fulfill requests through AI agents. | $90M | Series D | Aug 03, 2022 |  |
| Skyroot Aerospace | 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. | $4.5M | Convertible Note | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Antheia | Antheia is unlocking the medicinal power of nature. Its synthetic biology platform surpasses the limits of conventional drug discovery and manufacturing through a novel approach to whole-cell engineering —reconstructing complex molecules in yeast to bring to market next-generation plant-inspired medicines. | $73M | Series B | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| Kit.com | At-home medical exams, delivered. Kit enables insurers and telehealth companies to test their patients from home. Subsidiary of @Ro. | $3.3M | Seed | Jan 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 78 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Sherpalo Ventures invest in?

Sherpalo Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 78 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 Sherpalo Ventures's check size?

Sherpalo Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$6.4M at Seed, $1.6M–$20M at Series A and $8M–$40M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sherpalo Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Sherpalo Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Sherpalo Ventures?

The team at Sherpalo Ventures includes Ram Shriram (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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