Ramu Arunachalam
General Partner at A.Capital
San Francisco, California
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$100,000.00Max Investment:
$500,000.00Target Investment:
$250,000.00
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General Partner
2014
A Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies. We have offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco. Select investments: Forward Networks (2014) Buoyant (2015) Styra: (2015) Notion Labs (2016) Armorblox (2017) Cyral (2018) Repl.it (2019)
2010 - 2014
Partner
2010 - 2014
Investing in Enterprise startups. Joined in 2010 as the first hire into the venture deal team. Representative investments: Databricks (Series A), Platfora (sold to Workday) Illumio (Series A) Pindrop Security (Series A) Apollo (fka Meteor) Mesosphere (Seed) Cumulus Networks (sold to Nvidia) Actifio (Series C)
2010 - 2010
Consultant
2010 - 2010
Product Management and Product Marketing for an early-stage startup
2009 - 2010
Product Management
2009 - 2010
• Responsible for road map planning and strategy for the Aster nCluster product series • Authored Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for a number of key features in the nCluster product series • Supported sales organizations with product, market and competitive information; designated product manager responsible for all accounts on the west and mid-west • Crafted joint value proposition with target markets and mutual success metrics for a key strategic partnership
2007 - 2009
Associate Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking
2007 - 2009
2002 - 2006
Senior Member Technical Staff
2002 - 2006
• Designed and Developed next-generation virtual switch infrastructure for the VMware ESX server. • Implemented software TCP offloading engine (TOE) for Windows virtual machines designed to alleviate virtualization overheads with high speed networking • Ported FreeBSD 4.9 TCP/IP stack for use in the VMware vmkernel to support VMotion, iSCSI and NFS • Performance enhancements to VMkernel TCP/IP • Shadow TCP/IP stack to unify Console OS and VMkernel networking traffic • Network drivers for VMware ESX
1999 - 2002
Software Engineer
1999 - 2002