Venky Harinarayan
Angel Investor · Founding Partner at Cambrian Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Venky Harinarayan is a seed investor at Cambrian Ventures in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Venky Harinarayan is the Founding Partner of Rocketship.vc. Venky previously worked at Cambria. He attended Stanford University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Venky Harinarayan invests in
Stages Venky Harinarayan invests in
Countries Venky Harinarayan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $850k–$3M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$44M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 6 (32%)
- Software 5 (26%)
- Analytics 5 (26%)
- Machine Learning 5 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (21%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (42%)
- Series A 7 (37%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Series D 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 12 (63%)
- India 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Cricket Enterprises is a strategic partner of the professional T20 cricket league. | $44M / Series A / May 18, 2022 | ||
| American Cricket Enterprises is a strategic partner of the professional T20 cricket league. | Seed / Dec 23, 2020 | ||
| DocsApp is an online doctor consultation platform. DocsApp is a mobile platform where people from India can consult a specialist MD Doctors with in 30 minutes in various specialisations through chat or call from the location of their convenience. DocsApp has specialist Doctors in the following specialisations. | $7.2M / Series A / Dec 13, 2017 | ||
| Passage AI is a venture-backed company located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We were founded in 2016 by three Silicon Valley veterans with an extensive background in deep learning and artificial intelligence. We are funded by leading seed/angel investors. Our mission is to make it seamless for businesses to converse with their customers, andhelp businesses put their customers first.Passage AI's platform provides the AI, NLU/P, and deep learning technology as well as the bot building tools to create and deploy a conversational interface for your business. | $3M / Seed / Sep 27, 2017 | ||
| HyperTrack is the location cloud for last mile delivery, field service and gig work. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 06, 2017 | ||
| DocsApp is an online doctor consultation platform. DocsApp is a mobile platform where people from India can consult a specialist MD Doctors with in 30 minutes in various specialisations through chat or call from the location of their convenience. DocsApp has specialist Doctors in the following specialisations. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 28, 2016 | ||
| Cuberon is a customer behavior analytics company that helps product and marketing teams to discover, analyze, and visualize customer behavior that impacts their business metrics. The company allows business users to ask and answer questions without requiring to know query languages, data sciences, and go through reports.Cuberon was founded in2015 by Abhishek Gattani and Digvijay Singh Lamba. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | Seed / Aug 15, 2015 | ||
| Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions about the physical. It enables the analysis of earth observation data at scale, providing services and solutions across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resilience. | $3M / Seed / May 01, 2015 | ||
| San Francisco based Blueshift helps brands deliver relevant, connected experiences across every customer interaction. It’s SmartHub CDP uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. Through unified data, omnichannel orchestration, intelligent decisioning, and unmatchedscale, Blueshift gives brands all the tools to seamlessly deliver 1:1 experiences in real-time across the entire customer journey.Leading consumer brands such as LendingTree, Udacity, Discovery, PayPal, Groupon, and the BBC use Blueshift to drive continued revenue growth through elevated customer engagement. | $2.6M / Seed / Nov 04, 2014 | ||
| Qubole is a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. With Qubole, data scientists can now spin up hundreds of clusters on their public cloud of choice and begin developing ad hoc and/or batch queries faster and have the system autoscale to the optimal compute levels as needed. | $7M / Series A / Apr 24, 2013 | ||
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FAQ
What does Venky Harinarayan invest in?
Venky Harinarayan invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Venky Harinarayan's check size?
Venky Harinarayan typically joins rounds of $850k–$3M at Seed and $1.6M–$44M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Venky Harinarayan participates in.
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When did Venky Harinarayan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Venky Harinarayan closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 19 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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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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