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Arvind Ayyala

Investments at Geodesic Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Arvind Ayyala is currently a Partner at Geodesic Capital, where he has helped lead investments and advised on scaling strategies for nine boards. He has achieved four IPOs and four M&As throughout his career, demonstrating a strong track record of successful exits in the industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner, Investments

    2022 - Current

    Love to connect with founders! Years of investing, and still love the art/science of investing/value creation for portfolio! I have the privilege to partner founders operating across AI, enterprise software, financial services, healthcare IT.

Geodesic Capital is a venture capital firm that provides mid and late stage funding to technology companies.

  • Investor | (+Sourced)

    2025

    CDW-native composable CDP and AI Decisioning platform enabling enterprises to activate their data

Hightouch is a data platform that helps sync customers' data from the data warehouse to CRM, marketing, and support tools.

Raised $92,200,000.00 from Databricks Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Amplify Partners, Y Combinator, The New Normal Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Afore Capital, Barr Moses and Alex Pall.

  • Creator | Co-Host

    2023

    Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unpak3d-podcast/id1715726133 For operators, by operators - Reach me at aa@unpak3d.com Guests (CEOs/Founders) - Snowflake, Transcarent, Nutanix, Taulia, Cloudflare, Jellyfish, Phenom, Endor Labs, Infinitus, Alteryx/Insight, Punchh, Shape Security.... and so many more coming up ... so many!

  • Investor | (+Sourced)

    2025

    Digital Native Vertical Wealth Management Software Stack + with custodial backend = supporting RIAs’ growth

Altruist is a digital investment platform that offers commission-free trading and financial advice to individuals.

Raised $449,500,000.00 from Adams Street Partners, ICONIQ Growth, Granite Capital Management and Sound Ventures.

  • Investor | (+Sourced)

    2024

    AI-first fraud & compliance platform - tackling data and tooling problem in the space

Sardine is fraud prevention and compliance software company for the digital economy.

Raised $75,600,000.00 from Visa, Andreessen Horowitz, Activant Capital, Nyca Partners, ING Ventures, ConsenSys, The General Partnership, XYZ Venture Capital, Eric Schmidt and Cross River Digital Ventures.

  • Investor | (+Sourced)

    2024

    Bringing AI into enterprise - with pre-built models, guardrails and powering BU-specific workflows

Writer is a software firm that develops a full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for enterprises.

Raised $326,000,000.00 from Radical Ventures, PremjiInvest, Insight Partners, Gradient, Workday Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, B Capital, Accenture, Citi Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

  • Investor | (+Sourced)

    2024

    Data Engine for AI Lifecycle Development

Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.

Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.

  • Investor | (+Sourced)

    2024

    Reimagining networking in age of AI

Alkira is a network infrastructure as-a-service company that unifies multiple clouds, sites, and users via an enterprise network.

Raised $176,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Geodesic Capital, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Dallas Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins, LIAN Group, Sequoia Capital and NextEquity Partners.

  • Investor | Board (Observer) | (+Sourced)

    2024

Transcarent is a provider of a healthcare platform that facilitates improved outcomes and cost-effective decisions.

Raised $424,000,000.00 from 7wire Ventures, Human Capital, Memorial Hermann Health System, General Catalyst, Leaps by Bayer, Alta Partners, Ally Bridge Group, Kinnevik, Geodesic Capital and Threshold.

  • Investor

    2024

    Foundational model lab leveraging nature-inspired intelligence amongst other approaches + focused on non-Latin languages

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