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Quick background: engineer, founder, investor. Ten years of engineering experience and ten years of venture experience.
Array invests in B2B enterprise companies, and our biggest focus is helping founders get from that zero-to-one stage. Usually that's focusing a lot on go-to-market.
When Champ came to me, the deck said everything about community and video and all sorts of consumerish words — and most people would have literally looked at it and said, if their focus wasn't that…
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Who is Shruti Gandhi?
The founder and general partner of Array Ventures, the San Francisco pre-seed firm she started in 2016. She spent a decade in engineering, including at IBM, before moving into venture, and also teaches computer science at Columbia and sits as a commissioner of the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System.
What does Array Ventures invest in?
Enterprise software, increasingly AI-first — data infrastructure, security, developer tools and AI agents — at pre-seed, usually as the first institutional cheque. Gandhi told TechTO the firm's focus is helping technical founders get from zero to one, largely on go-to-market.
Why did she invest in Capsule?
She looked past the pitch's language. She said on the TechTO stage on 2021-03-19 that Capsule's deck read as consumer — community, video — and that most investors with an enterprise focus would have passed on it for that reason. Array led the company's $2-million pre-seed.