1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment
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Nathan Latka
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🗓️ 1 January 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Shruti, Founder & Managing Partnerof Array, brings a strong mix of operating and investing experience. Previously, Shruti was an early stage venture capital investor at True Ventures, Samsung Electronics, Lightbank, HighBAR Partners, and the i2A Fund.
Shruti started working with Machine Learning algorithms while working on her master's thesis in computer science from Columbia University on understanding user behavior on instant messaging platforms. While at IBM she worked on self learning algorithms that detected user location based on IP addresses, which she later incorporated into the Lotus Sametime product. Later, her company Penseev helped users make better connections with their friends based on social data.
When not investing, she is hacking on some app or thinking about ways she can be in many places at one time. Shruti also has an MBA from the University of Chicago, where she polished her finance skills before making the switch from engineer/founder to investor.
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| 0:00.0 | biggest return on paper so far in terms of investments is simility and AI and ML fraud |
| 0:04.0 | management kind of solution made a couple dozen investments most importantly though she |
| 0:09.5 | decided to get into this VC world about three years ago with call it a 15 to 20 million |
| 0:13.5 | ish dollar fund currently jumping in and uh you know and getting more capital essentially to invest |
| 0:18.5 | loves spaces like voice right with her own Check that out. But made a big investment |
| 0:23.9 | in Art 19 in the podcasting space as well. Again, looking at big enterprise data place. More |
| 0:28.3 | importantly, though, people with big visions and underlying it all, you know, doing some |
| 0:31.6 | kind of world good. Agriculture, food, ocean tech, she's looking for you. If you're in that space, |
| 0:36.1 | reach out. this is the top |
| 0:39.1 | entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich |
| 0:44.8 | or crash and burn each episode features revenue numbers customer counts and other insider |
| 0:53.7 | information that creates business |
| 0:56.0 | news headlines. We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. |
| 1:01.2 | I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
| 1:06.6 | We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
| 1:24.6 | Hello everyone, my guest today is Shuthi Gandhi. She is the currently active |
| 1:29.6 | at Array Ventures where she's managing obviously a fund participating in many different |
| 1:33.8 | companies, specifically B2B Sath, some health and tech as well. She has a strong mix of operating |
| 1:39.6 | and investing experience. She was before this, she was an investor at True, Samsung, Lightbank, |
| 1:44.8 | high bar partners, and the I2A fund. All right, Shruti, are you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:49.0 | That sounds amazing. Thanks for having it. You bet. So tell us quickly kind of where you are |
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