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Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan

Partner

G is an experienced and well rounded investor with operational and strategic experience both at startups and large companies. In this age of AI, she believes in the power of human resilience and imagination to chart a new future.

Gayathri Radhakrishnan

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan has over two decades of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A, and venture investments at both Fortune 500 companies (Corning, Dell, Micron) and early-stage startups in the technology sector. Currently, a Partner at Hitachi Ventures, she focuses on technology startups driving digital transformation. Previously, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups applying AI in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare, Mobility, and also data center and storage related technologies. She also worked as an earlystage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. Gayathri holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Hitachi Ventures has been an invaluable partner in Ema's growth journey, providing not just capital, but unparalleled access to top-tier talent, industry expertise, and most importantly, real customer leads. Their hands-on support and commitment to driving tangible value have set them apart as a true value-added investor.

Surojit Chatterjee, Founder & CEO
Ema Unlimited

Areas of Interest
  • AI
  • DeepTech (Infra and Semi)
  • Enterprise & Infrastructure SW
Previous Investments

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The Future of AI: Scalable Models, Advanced Inference, and Efficient Workflows
September 2, 2025
Portfolio News

The Future of AI: Scalable Models, Advanced Inference, and Efficient Workflows

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Teramount: Foundational Technology Enabling the Future of Optical Interconnects
July 31, 2025
Why We Invested

Teramount: Foundational Technology Enabling the Future of Optical Interconnects

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Xaba Raises $6M Led by Hitachi Ventures to Build Synthetic Brains for Industrial Robotics
April 14, 2025
Portfolio News

Xaba Raises $6M Led by Hitachi Ventures to Build Synthetic Brains for Industrial Robotics

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https://medium.com/@HitachiVentures/from-pipelines-to-insights-the-ai-driven-data-stack-revolution-in-2025-64a58c070b5d
April 3, 2025
Insights

From Pipelines to Insights: The AI-Driven Data Stack Revolution in 2025

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Opsera Why We Invest
April 2, 2025
Why We Invested

Unifying AI-Driven DevOps for All Teams: Why We Invested in Opsera

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Opsera Raises $20M to Drive AI-Powered DevOps Platform Innovation
April 2, 2025
Portfolio News

Opsera Raises $20M to Drive AI-Powered DevOps Platform Innovation

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Powering the Future: The Path to Energy-Efficient AI
February 6, 2025
Insights

Powering the Future: The Path to Energy-Efficient AI

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Hitachi Ventures raises $400M fund to invest in everything from fusion to AI
February 5, 2025
Firm News

Hitachi Ventures raises $400M fund to invest in everything from fusion to AI

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Hitachi ups startup investment to $1bn as AI wave grows
February 5, 2025
Firm News

Hitachi ups startup investment to $1bn as AI wave grows 

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August 15, 2024
Why We Invested

Trustwise: Powering Reliable and Efficient AI Systems

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August 14, 2024
Insights

The Dawn of Agentic AI: Transforming Enterprise Automation and the Future of Work

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August 6, 2024
Why We Invested

Lineaje, or do you know what’s in your software?

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July 31, 2024
Why We Invested

Ema: Multi-Agents Transforming Enterprise Automation

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July 25, 2024
Insights

Scaling the Data Stack: The Impact of Generative AI on Data Workflow

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April 5, 2024
Portfolio News

Archetype AI Introduces Foundation Model to Pioneer Physical AI

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The Inevitable Shift: The Evolution of Multimodal Foundation Models to Bridge the Sensory Gap
April 5, 2024
Why We Invested

The Inevitable Shift: The Evolution of Multimodal Foundation Models to Bridge the Sensory Gap

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Riding the Wave - Arrcus
July 10, 2023
Why We Invested

Riding the Wave of Network Transformation: Investing in Arrcus

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Arrcus Featured
July 10, 2023
Portfolio News

Investor interest in Arrcus grows as Hitachi Ventures is latest to join Series D

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Emerging Leaders 2023: Gayathri Radhakrishnan
March 13, 2023
Firm News

Emerging Leaders 2023: Gayathri Radhakrishnan

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Arcee AI Logo

SLM and Agentic Workflow Automation Platform

Arcee AI is focused on creating highly efficient, secure, and domain-specific AI solutions that drive automation, streamline workflows, and deliver measurable value across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, and legal.

CEO

Mark McQuade

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series A

HQ

California

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Aditi Purandare
Pratik Malhotra

Archetype AI Logo

Physical AI: Developer of a Multi-modal Foundation Model that aims to bridge the 'sensory' gap

Developer of Newton, a physical AI foundation model designed to provide an unprecedented understanding of the real world. The company offers a multimodal AI foundation model that fuses real-time sensor data with natural language, enabling individuals and organizations to ask open-ended questions about their surroundings and take informed action for improvement.

CEO

Ivan Poupyrev

Sectors

Digital

Industrial

Stage

Seed

HQ

California

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Vamsi Patti

Arrcus Logo

Hardware agnostic network OS for datacenter, edge, telco and multi/hybrid cloud environments

From the edge to the core to multi-cloud environments, Arrcus offers a software defined network OS with programmable control and data plane to seamlessly integrate networking solutions for unparalleled access to distributed workloads. Enabling network-aaS with low latency, high performance, lossless connectivity, power efficiency and robust security.

CEO

Shekar Ayyar

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series D

HQ

California

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Vamsi Patti

Avicena Logo

Groundbreaking Al Connectivity using ultra-low power uLED interconnects

CEO

Marco Chisari

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series B

HQ

California

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Vamsi Patti
Aditi Purandare

Ema Logo

AI Agent company building universal AI employees

Ema helps automate most of the mundane tasks that human employees perform today and free them up to do more valuable work in the enterprise. Ema has built a universal AI employee which can morph into taking on any role in the organization — from customer support, employee experience, sales & marketing to legal & compliance.

CEO

Surojit Chatterjee

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series A

HQ

California

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Aditi Purandare

Lineage Logo

Unified software supply chain security management platform

Lineaje Inc. provides Continuous Software Supply Chain Security Management to companies that build or use software. Destructive supply chain attacks, undetectable by existing cybersecurity tools, are growing dramatically impacting thousands of companies with one compromise. From SolarWinds to Kaseya to OSS compromises, these attacks put software & digital brands and their customers at risk. Lineaje secures your Company from these attacks.

SBOM360 is the first product on this journey enabling you manage your entire supply chain consisting of applications you build, or buy in one place with common policies shared by your entire company.

CEO

Javed Hasan

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series A

HQ

California

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Tobias Graf
Aditi Purandare

Opsera Logo

The AI-powered DevOps platform for all apps and teams.

Opsera is your one-stop, single pane of glass look into your entire DevOps lifecycle for any use case; SDLC, SaaS Apps, Data & Analytics and Security.

CEO

Kumar Chivukula

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series B

HQ

California

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Aditi Purandare

Pantomath Logo

Automating data operations in one unified platform

Pantomath delivers automated data operations for modern enterprises, unifying real-time monitoring, cross-platform lineage, AI-driven root-cause and impact analysis into a single platform.

CEO

Shashank Saxena

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series B

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Aditi Purandare
Tobias Graf

Teramount Logo

The World’s First Self-Aligning, Detachable and HVM Ready Fiber-to-Chip Connector

Teramount is a developer of advanced optical connectivity solutions for the semiconductor industry, focusing on the integration of fiber optics with silicon photonics. Their patented Universal Photonic Coupler and Photonic-Plug technologies, enable scalable and cost-effective assembly of optical fibers to silicon photonic chips using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes. These solutions are designed to meet the growing demand for high-speed, high-bandwidth applications such as AI, data centers, and telecommunications by simplifying fiber-to-chip connectivity and supporting high-volume, wafer-level packaging and testing.

CEO

Hesham Taha

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Series A

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Vamsi Patti
Pratik Malhotra

Trustwise Optimize:ai accelerates the development of trustworthy GenAI systems.

Trustwise Optimize:ai accelerates the development of trustworthy GenAI systems while enabling enterprises to run applications and workloads efficiently across cloud, data center, and edge infrastructures. Optimize:ai, delivered through a single API, provides developers with four NIM microservices to reduce operational costs and carbon emissions.

CEO

Manoj Saxena

Sectors

Digital

Stage

Seed

HQ

Texas

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Vamsi Patti

Empowering robotics with AI to improve performance and adaptability in manufacturing processes.

Xaba develops new processes and AI-powered software solutions to automate and enable sustainable manufacturing with its xCognition, xTrude and PLCfy platforms. These platforms leverage digital twins of industrial robotic systems, physics AI, language models and multi-modal datasets to enable accurate, repeatable task execution with minimal human oversight delivering cognitive industrial automation and ensuring consistency, robustness, and high-quality execution. Xaba reduces the need for constant human supervision, reprogramming, and waste, improving ROI in manufacturing and construction processes.

CEO

Massimiliano Moruzzi

Sectors

Digital

Industrial

Stage

Seed

HQ

Ontario

Deal Team

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Vamsi Patti

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