Srikanth Raghavan

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Principal at Sandstone Ventures · B2B SaaS · pricing, venture capital

Sandstone Ventures
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
7+ years experience
Shri Ram College of Commerce
English, Hindi, Tamil
Investing
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Overview

I invest in B2B SaaS at Sandstone Ventures, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 5 years before investing. Led or co-led 35 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in B2B SaaS
  • Second opinions on go-to-market decisions
  • Questions about B2B SaaS
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Fund-of-funds solicitations
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Decks without a clear ask

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Skills
pricingventure capitalgo-to-market
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into pre-seed B2B SaaS in North America

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
B2B SaaS, AI applications
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Chennai, Indiapricingventure capitalgo-to-market
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Feb 2023 - Present
    Sandstone Ventures · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 13 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 21 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Business Analyst
    Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
    Nvidia · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped 17 launches on the search team without a rollback.
  3. Business Analyst
    Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
    Wipro · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 30% in two quarters.
    • Moved 91% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Shri Ram College of Commerce
    B.Com, Computer Science
    2014 - 2018

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