# Venu Pemmaraju

> Venu Pemmaraju is a seed investor at Wipro Ventures backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wipro Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wiproventure)
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venupemmaraju/

Venu Pemmaraju is a seed investor at Wipro Ventures in Mountain View focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Venu Pemmaraju is the Co-Head and Managing Partner at Wipro Ventures. He attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 33% |
| Database | 1 | 17% |
| Open Source | 1 | 17% |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | 17% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kibsi | Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications. Our cloud native, low-code platform democratizes computer vision, allowing customers to focus on their business needs, not the complexity. | $5M | Seed | Dec 31, 2022 |  |
| Yugabyte | Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, internet-scale apps. It is built using a unique combination of the high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner). YugabyteDBserves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures, and global data distribution. As a cloud-native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease. YugabyteDB is fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $188M | Series C | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Yugabyte | Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, internet-scale apps. It is built using a unique combination of the high-performance document store, auto sharding, per-shard distributed consensus replication, and multi-shard ACID transactions (inspired by Google Spanner). YugabyteDBserves both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures, and global data distribution. As a cloud-native database, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments with ease. YugabyteDB is fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $30M | Series B | Jun 09, 2020 |  |
| Avaamo | Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise. Avaamo is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality. | $14.2M | Series A | May 08, 2018 |  |
| Avaamo | Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise. Avaamo is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality. | $3M | Series A | Oct 06, 2016 |  |
| Avaamo | Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise. Avaamo is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality. | $3M | Seed | Oct 06, 2016 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [WI Harper Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wi-harper-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founder Friendly Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ffl) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Wipro Ventures

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Wipro Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT) and focuses on investing in early- to mid-stage startups. It is a $100 million fund that leverages Wipro’s global reach and market knowledge to accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies. Wipro’s broad customer base of Global 1000 clients gives us a better understandingof customer needs and market trends, enabling us to provide valuable guidance to our startup partners.

3 contacts available at Wipro Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Suhail Refaye | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suhail-refaye |
| Venu Pemmaraju | Co-Head and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venu-pemmaraju |
| Jatin Dalal | President & Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jatin-dalal-e013 |

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## FAQ

### What does Venu Pemmaraju invest in?

Venu Pemmaraju invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Database startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 Venu Pemmaraju last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Venu Pemmaraju closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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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