Connect with a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist | TiEcon 2023

Raghu Madabushi is a Director at National Grid Partners investing in early stage companies in the broad enterprise SW vertical. Raghu has 20+ years of experience with technology, capital markets, and IP/innovation.

He comes from SRI Ventures and GE Ventures prior to that, where he invested in deep tech and industrial infrastructure (SW, HW, and telecom). Prior to this, he managed a large portfolio of collaborative open-source technology projects while at the Linux Foundation and headed the startup investing business at Intellectual Ventures (IV) helping invest in early stage startups.

Prior to IV, Raghu held buy-side and sell-side roles at Wall Street firms (Oppenheimer & Co, Collins Stewart) and brings extensive experience in the hardware and software design space having worked in various roles including, semiconductor fabrication, chip design, systems architecture, strategy, and marketing (Texas Instruments, Intel, Cadence Design Systems).

Raghu received an MBA in Finance and Investments from Southern Methodist University, an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, and serves as a Kauffman Fellow. You can often catch him honing his mean backhand at a badminton court, with fellow investors and founders.

Gayathri is a Director Venture Capitalist at Micron Tech. Micron is a world leader in innovative memory solutions that transform how the world uses information. We have approximately 40,000 team members in 17 countries who work with the world’s most trusted brands, delivering memory and storage systems for a broad range of applications and sparking countless possibilities in technology.

Before Micron, Gayathri was a Venture Partner at Impact Venture Capital, VP Product Management at Pensa Inc., Head of Product at Catalina Labs Inc., and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development and Senior Manager Strategy and Corporate Development at Dell.

"Susan has over three decades years of operating, management, and venture capital experience. Prior to co-founding Aligned Partners in 2011, she spent 15 years with ONSET Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with $1 billion under management located in Menlo Park, California. Susan has specialized in investing in the information technology area, specifically communications and security. As an investor and board member, Susan has played a pivotal role in the development of companies including Securent, Alteon, Gadzoox, SilverTail Systems, Actineon, and many others. Prior to joining ONSET Ventures as a Kauffman Fellow in 1996, Susan held positions in high-technology engineering, marketing and business development. She led a highly successful consulting practice, helping Fortune 1000 corporations capitalize on emerging markets and technologies. Early in her career, she held positions in marketing and engineering design of high-performance systems and microprocessors for Fujitsu Microelectronics, Fairchild Semiconductor and NCR Microelectronics. Susan received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a regular guest speaker on entrepreneurial topics at Stanford University, UCLA and many local events in Silicon Valley. Susan is a founding board member of the Center for Venture Education, which operates the Kauffman Fellows Program. She currently serves as its Chairman. Susan is also the Chairman of the Finance and Investment Committee for the town of Los Altos Hills, California."

I help support early stage (Seed/Series A) entrepreneurs as they disrupt the healthcare industry.

Prior to venture capital, I had been a data scientist and helped manage data operations at firms ranging from 4 to 200 people for 7+ years. I have a lot of experience within different types of data organizations in the healthcare and advertising industries.

Satya is a Technology Investment Banking leader with 15+ years of experience in advising CEOs, CFOs and Board of Directors on Strategic Advisory, M&A, Private Placements and IPO.

Preethy Padmanabhan is a seasoned technology executive with experience across marketing, product, sales and engineering. She is currently the Sr.Director of Platform Product Marketing at Freshworks. Her past roles include VP of Marketing at Panzura and Director of Marketing at Nutanix. Preethy has an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from UCLA Anderson School of Management and an MS Information Systems from BITS Pilani, India. She is an angel investor with Portfolia, How Women Invest and serves as a Board Director for Nextstem.ai. She has served in various non-profit boards focused on economic empowerment, women, children and education.

"Prashant is a Partner at Monta Vista Capital. He has been an early stage venture investor since 2001 when he was with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, an early stage VC focused on enterprise and infrastructure software. Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack, with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. He is also an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley, where he formerly was a member of its Board of Directors, Chair of TiE Angels, and Managing Director of TiE LaunchPad. Prashant received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Areas of expertise: Product strategy Enterprise software Fund raising"