# SRI International

> SRI International is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sri-international
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SRI_Intl
- Website: http://www.sri.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sri.intl

SRI International is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Silicon Valley-based SRI International is one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. Its mission: World-changing solutions to make people safer, healthier, and more productive. Founded by Stanford University as Stanford Research Institute in 1946, SRI became independent in 1970. Perhaps bestknown for its invention of the computer mouse, interactive computing, and Siri, SRI is responsible for major advances in computing, chemistry and materials, education, energy, health and pharmaceuticals, national defense, robotics, sensing, and more. The nonprofit institute performs sponsored research and development for government agencies, businesses, and foundations. SRI brings its innovations to the marketplace through technology licensing, new products, and spin-off ventures. In 2014, SRI's consolidated revenues were approximately $540 million.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 39% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 35% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 32% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 23% |
| Health Care | 4 | 13% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 65% |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 87% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Giedrius Burachas | Principal Investigator of DARPA AI projects | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giedrius-burachas |
| Luther Lau | Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luther-lau |
| Michael Page | Vice President, Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-page-4 |
| Peter Marcotullio | Vice President, Commercial Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-marcotullio |
| Stephen Ciesinski | President | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-ciesinski |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pienso | Pienso is a machine learning platform for non-programmers. Pienso’s end to end Intelligent Development Environment allows non-programming experts to create and train their own machine learning models without the need for external support. Founded in 2016 by Birago Jones, CEO and Karthik Dinakar PH.D, CTO. Pienso is headquartered in the BrooklynNavy Yard’s New Lab in Brooklyn, New York. For more information visit: http://pienso.com/ and follow @Pienso_ML. | $10M | Series A | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| GoCharlie.AI | We are a generative AI company leading the development of a goal-driven and multi-model deep language engine: Charlie!What does Charlie do? Imagine asking an AI to write you the best social media post that maximizes impressions, or create a photo-realistic image of a coffee ad that makes you feel warm and excited, or even draft a narrative for anentire marketing campaign. That's what we're working on at Gaudium.At Gaudium, we believe the future of work is one where the use of generative AI, like Charlie, plus human input will be fundamental to stay competitive in an ever-increasing automated world. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2023 |  |
| GoCharlie.AI | We are a generative AI company leading the development of a goal-driven and multi-model deep language engine: Charlie!What does Charlie do? Imagine asking an AI to write you the best social media post that maximizes impressions, or create a photo-realistic image of a coffee ad that makes you feel warm and excited, or even draft a narrative for anentire marketing campaign. That's what we're working on at Gaudium.At Gaudium, we believe the future of work is one where the use of generative AI, like Charlie, plus human input will be fundamental to stay competitive in an ever-increasing automated world. | $800K | Seed | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Lisa Health | Midday is a digital platform for menopause and midlife women's health. Menopause is a transition every woman around the globe will experience. Eighty-five percent will have symptoms that adversely impact their health, quality of life, relationships, and productivity at work. Lisa Health manages the menopause journey and midlife wellbeing withpersonalized, science-based, community-supported guidance. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 22, 2022 |  |
| Tauk | Tauk is a platform that enables developers to release their apps with confidence at massive scale. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Medical Devices Corner | Medical Devices Corner specializes in providing commercial medical products. |  | Seed | Dec 17, 2021 |  |
| Prevasio | Prevasio is a next-generation cloud security posture management with a built-in vulnerability and anti-malware scan for docker containers.The mission of prevasio is to combine in one affordable solution the lightness and convenience of a classic CSPM with the attack prevention capabilities of a CWPP.Prevasio achieves that by combining 3products in one solution.1. Cloud Security Posture ManagementPrevasio requires only a few minutes to complete a full scan of all your assets. The scan will reveal any misconfiguration issues in the cloud platform according to best practices and compliance standards.2. Vulnerability Assessment and Anti-malwareIf you have any public or private containers, Prevasio will also perform a full vulnerability assessment of all packages and libraries found to be installed in those containers.Prevasio will perform an anti-malware scan of all files found to be present in any discovered public or private containers.Main features: - Prevasio creates no agents and runs no code in your cloud - It uses no servers, thus having a very low cost per scan - Being serverless, it scales up quickly to process any load - It starts an analysis in milliseconds and finishes in minutesIt only takes a few mouse clicks to connect Prevasio to your Cloud account. Once connected, it will scan your assets within minutes, revealing any misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, or malware.3. Secret Sauce - As a portfolio company of SRI, Prevasio is also leveraging proprietary SRI AI intellectual property to empower Virtual Private Assistant (VPA) technology to assess and detect cybersecurity threats using unsupervised machine learning. | $1M | Seed | Dec 10, 2021 |  |
| Wingsure | Wingsure is a farmer-first, technology-first digital insurance enterprise that provides simple solutions for risk management to help farmers. It is a farmer-first, technology-first digital insurance enterprise. |  |  | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| Vitrina A.I. | Vitrina A.I. is a SaaS platform for the video content industry to facilitate and enable cross-border transactions. |  | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| AccuKnox | AccuKnox Zero Trust CNAPP is an industry leading cloud security product. With its differentiated DevSecOps and open-source approach, it secures infrastructure and applications, ensuring comprehensive safeguarding of the software development lifecycle. Our support covers public clouds, private clouds, Kubernetes, VMs, bare metals, IoT Edge, and 5Gsecurity. | $4.6M | Seed | Apr 27, 2021 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gravity Ranch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gravity-ranch) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Horizons Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/horizons-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mayo Clinic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mayoclinic) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SRI International invest in?

SRI International invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at SRI International?

The team at SRI International includes Giedrius Burachas (Principal Investigator of DARPA AI projects), Luther Lau (Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Financial Officer) and Michael Page (Vice President, Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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