Seetharam Venkatesh

Seetharam Venkatesh is a Partner at 8VC based in San Francisco, California, where he leads investments in enterprise infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Before joining the investment firm in 2022, he served as a Principal at Battery Ventures and previously worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Amazon. At 8VC, a venture capital firm that manages over $10 billion in total assets, his portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Snyk, Pinecone, and Hex. In 2025, he directed a $100 million Series B funding round for an artificial intelligence security startup and recently presented on enterprise software trends at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Holding a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University, Venkatesh leverages his technical engineering background to identify and fund early-stage technology founders building transformative data infrastructure and machine learning tools.