The Syndicate

Building a Successful Corporate Venture Fund with Venu Pemmaraju of Wipro Ventures


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Venu Pemmaraju is Managing Partner at Wipro Ventures, a $100M fund out of Wipro Ltd. focused on early to mid-stage startups investments that leverage their Global 1000 clients to help startups grow and acquire enterprise-level customers. He also serves as a board observer for Avaamo, CloudGenix, Emailage, and ImanisData and prior to this was an Investment Director at Intel Capital.
Listen and Learn:

* What it is like building a successful corporate venture arm
* What Venu learned living through two boom and bust cycles
* Why cybersecurity is always a safe bet for investments
* How startups should think about corporate VCs
* Are headed for another crash
* Why automation is a great trend to ride
* Why so many more enterprises are starting investment arms



Venu’s Main Projects:
Wipro Ventures
Twitter: @wipro
Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.
Venu Pemmaraju is Managing Partner at Wipro Ventures, a $100M fund out of Wipro Ltd. focused on early to mid-stage startups investments that leverage their Global 1000 clients to help startups grow and acquire enterprise-level customers. He also serves as a board observer for Avaamo, CloudGenix, Emailage, and ImanisData and prior to this was an Investment Director at Intel Capital.
Listen and Learn:

* What it is like building a successful corporate venture arm
* What Venu learned living through two boom and bust cycles
* Why cybersecurity is always a safe bet for investments
* How startups should think about corporate VCs
* Are headed for another crash
* Why automation is a great trend to ride
* Why so many more enterprises are starting investment arms



Venu’s Main Projects:
Wipro Ventures
Twitter: @wipro
Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.
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The SyndicateBy Matt Ward