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Shruti Gandhi

Shruti Gandhi

Shruti Gandhi

Array Ventures, Managing Partner

Shruti Gandhi is a managing partner at Array Ventures. Array Ventures invests in the new wave of enterprise companies.

Shruti brings a strong mix of operating and investing experience. Previously, Shruti was a tech investor at True Ventures and Samsung Electronics, Lightbank, HighBAR Partners, and the i2A Fund, where she has invested in 9 companies 4 of which have had successful exits (7.7x in 3 years).

Shruti started her career as an engineer in an emerging tech group (WebAhead), worked on collaboration tools at IBM (Lotus Sametime), built an incubator (Technology Adoption Program) and created a think/do tank for IBM’s Chairman & CEO, Sam Palmisano’s, office. Shruti was also the Founder of Penseev, a platform that gathered social data to create visual memories of your life.

Shruti is on the marketing and technology committees at SF Ballet and is a co-chair of TiE’s Silicon Valley Mobility Track. Acting on a lifelong passion for helping the advancement of women in engineering and finance, Shruti helped start TiE’s Women’s Forum. Shruti is a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She earned an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University and a BS in Computer Science from Marist College.

Testimonials

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.

George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures, (Midas List, 1st investor in twitter & Yammer, $1.4B under management)

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

It was great to present at SVOD and meet world-class entrepreneurs and investors. Our venture was off to a fast start in the funding round after the conference, we had an early closing to the round, and I look forward to being part of SVOD in the future!

Alexei Dunayev

CEO &CoFounder, TranscribeMe & Stanford MBA

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

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