Anurag Bist

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Artiman Management LLC (Artiman Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Amit Dilip Shah. The firm is headquartered in East Palo Alto, California.

Ariva Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2007 by Robert Simon and Ajit S. Shah. The firm is headquartered in Portola Valley.

Upaya Social Ventures builds the businesses that will create jobs and improve the quality of life for the ultra poor. It providing startup enterprises with technical assistance and financial resources through its business incubator, and consulting with established companies on innovative projects targeting deeply impoverished communities. The company was founded by Sriram Gutta, Steve Schwartz and Sachi Shenoy in 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Ampool, Inc. develops an in-memory computing platform. Its product Ampool Enterprise platform accelerates performance analytics while combining streaming and historical data. The company was founded by Milind Bhandarkar in 2015 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

PrimaryIO, Inc. develops software solutions to dramatically increase application performance. The firm offers Application Performance Acceleration (APA) technology to deploy policy based acceleration profiles based on important application components to deliver maximum I/O performance. The company was founded by Lorenzo Salhi, John Groff and Murali Nagaraj in 2012 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

AkriData, Inc. develops artificial intelligence data pipelines. It offers edge-to-cloud AI data filtering and analytics services. The company is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

3i Partners (3i Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Kumar Ganapathy. 3i Partners is headquartered in Los Altos, California.