# Venkat Venkataramani

> Venkat Venkataramani is a seed investor at OpenAI backing Security and Developer Tools. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OpenAI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openai)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veeve
- Website: https://x.com/iamveeve
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venkat

Venkat Venkataramani is a seed investor at OpenAI in San Francisco focused on Security and Developer Tools. Venkat Venkataramani is based out of San Francisco, California and is the VP of Platform Infrastructure of OpenAI. Venkat previously worked at Rockset as a co-founder and CEO. Venkat Venkataramani attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 1 | 50% |
| Developer Tools | 1 | 50% |
| Data Visualization | 1 | 50% |
| Cloud Data Services | 1 | 50% |
| Software Engineering | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scanner.dev | Scanner is a SIEM companion that enables teams to augment tools like Splunk, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Elastic for high volume log data, saving up to 90% per log source. After directly indexing your data, teams can find IP addresses and other IOCs in petabytes of logs in seconds.Teams can also leverage features like dashboards, detections-as-code,threat intelligence, and an API to connect with Scanner for Splunk, Grafana, SOARs like Tines or Torq, our library of Jupyter Notebooks for advanced threat hunting, Slack, Jira, or anything else with a custom webhook. | $22M | Series A | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Honeycomb | Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers.Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it helps every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed |  |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MANTIS Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mantis-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About OpenAI

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that conducts research and develops machine learning technologies. OpenAI works on projects that involve autonomous learning and task performance. It serves industries such as technology, healthcare, and education.

5 contacts available at OpenAI.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hemal Shah | Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hemal-shah |
| Hessam Bagherinezhad | Member of Technical Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hessam-bagherinezhad-b28a |
| Sarah Friar | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarah-friar |
| Scott Gray | Member of Technical Staff | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-gray-4 |
| Venkat Venkataramani | VP of Platform Infrastructure | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venkat-venkataramani |

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## FAQ

### What does Venkat Venkataramani invest in?

Venkat Venkataramani invests primarily in Security, Developer Tools and Data Visualization startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 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 Venkat Venkataramani last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Venkat Venkataramani closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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