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Entrepreneur
22-05-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Aarthi Ramamurthy Launches USD 20 Mn Schema Ventures to Back Early-Stage Startups
Schema Ventures will invest across sectors such as industrial software, robotics, intelligence for factories, construction, logistics, workflow intelligence, and developer tools. You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Startup investor and podcast host Aarthi Ramamurthy has launched her own venture capital firm, Schema Ventures, with a USD 20 million fund focused on early-stage startups. Announced via LinkedIn and X, Ramamurthy said Schema will back "exceptional outsider founders"—entrepreneurs building from lived experience rather than elite credentials or networks. With deep experience leading tech and product teams at Microsoft, Netflix, and Meta, Ramamurthy brings both operational depth and founder empathy, having previously built two startups herself. Schema Ventures will invest at the earliest stages across sectors such as industrial software, robotics, intelligence for factories, construction, logistics, workflow intelligence, and developer tools. In 2020, Ramamurthy co-created the viral Clubhouse show The Good Time Show with her husband Sriram Krishnan, a former Andreessen Horowitz GP and current White House senior AI policy advisor. Featuring guests like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the show evolved into The Aarthi and Sriram Show on YouTube, later securing a podcast deal with iHeartMedia and surpassing one million downloads. Through Schema Ventures, Ramamurthy aims to champion unconventional builders tackling hard problems—those often overlooked by traditional venture capital.
Time of India
21-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Aarthi Ramamurthy launches VC firm Schema Ventures with first fund of $20 million
Silicon Valley technologist and media personality Aarthi Ramamurthy on Wednesday launched her venture capital firm, Schema Ventures , with a $20 million fund. The fund will back early-stage startups founded by "exceptional outsider founders ", Ramamurthy said in posts on LinkedIn and X. "I grew up an outsider. I moved to San Francisco, built two startups. My story — figuring it out without a roadmap — is the blueprint for Schema," the post read. — aarthir (@aarthir) Schema will focus on the earliest stages of a company in various fields, including industrial software, robots and intelligence for factories, construction and logistics, workflow intelligence and developer tools. Ramamurthy, who has previously headed product and tech teams at Microsoft, Netflix and Meta, said her fund will back outsiders who build from lived experience, not "pedigree or proximity". "Sometimes there's no pitch deck yet, no co-founder, no capital — just conviction and technical insight. That's where we come in," she said. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories The entrepreneur became a media personality in 2020, when she launched a Clubhouse show with her husband Sriram Krishnan, former Andreessen Horowitz general partner and current White House senior AI policy advisor. The show, titled ' The Good Time Show ', featured organic conversations about startups, venture capitalism, and cryptocurrencies. It had high-profile guests like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The show later transitioned to YouTube and evolved into 'The Aarthi and Sriram Show', which secured a podcasting deal with iHeartMedia and amassed over a million downloads by early 2023.
