Vamsi Patti
Associate
Vamsi spent six years as an entrepreneur/operator before transitioning to venture capital in 2022. At Hitachi Ventures, he focuses on frontier technology approaches that aim to disrupt the de-facto across digital and industrial verticals.
Vamsi is an Electronics engineer by education and holds an MBA from HEC Paris.
Areas of Interest
- AI SaaS
- Digital Infrastructure (Compute, Networking, Storage & Memory, Photonics)
- Industrial Automation (HW & SW)
- Robotics
Perspectives
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April 14, 2025
Portfolio News
Xaba Raises $6M Led by Hitachi Ventures to Build Synthetic Brains for Industrial Robotics
October 29, 2024
Insights
AI is Powering the Future of Material Science: From Lab to Real-World Breakthroughs
April 5, 2024
Why We Invested
The Inevitable Shift: The Evolution of Multimodal Foundation Models to Bridge the Sensory Gap
January 9, 2024
Why We Invested
Empowering Robotics with AI to drive Sustainable Manufacturing: Why we Invested in Xaba
January 9, 2024
Why We Invested
Xaba Closes $2 Million Seed Extension to Deliver Intelligent, Self-programming Robotic Systems for Manufacturing
July 10, 2023
Portfolio News
Investor interest in Arrcus grows as Hitachi Ventures is latest to join Series D
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
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
Groundbreaking Al Connectivity using ultra-low power uLED interconnects
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
