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Sudheendra Chilappagari
Investor at Battery Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Sudheendra Chilappagari is the Cloud VC at Battery Ventures in San Francisco, focusing on investing in Series A and Seed stages within sectors like Enterprise Infrastructure and SaaS. With a background that includes roles at Twilio and Segment as a Product Lead, he has successfully invested in companies like Coefficient at the Series A stage.
Work Experience
Vice President
2021 - Current
Investing in all things B2B SaaS - AI, Apps, and Data companies. Portfolio: Atomicwork, Coefficient, Neuron7, Jump, Plain, and Postman.
Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.
Investor
2025
Collaborative customer support platform for B2B teams
Investor
2025
AI-native IT Service Management Platform
Atomicwork provides modern service management and conversational ITSM software.
Raised $14,000,000.00 from Neon Fund, Storm Ventures, Blume Ventures, Z47, Storm Ventures, Z47, Blume Ventures and Neon Fund.
Investor
2025
AI copilot for Financial Advisors
Jump is an AI assistant for financial advisors that automatically creates notes, manages tasks, and streamlines compliance.
Raised $4,600,000.00 from Sorenson Capital and Pelion Venture Partners.
Investor
2021
API Development Platform
Postman is a software company that offers a platform for the users to design, develop, test, and organize custom APIs.
Raised $433,000,000.00 from Gokul Rajaram, Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Sahin Boydas, CRV, Coatue, Girish Mathrubootham, Bond and Junipero Capital.
Investor
2022
Data and reporting automation platform for Excel and G-Sheets users.
Investor
2022
Customer Service Intelligence for the Enterprise.
Neuron7.ai is a service Intelligence platform that enables companies to deliver crucial service outcomes.
Raised $58,200,000.00 from Battery Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners and Smith Point Capital.
Seed Investor
2018
Personal investor and a friend to founders at: - Airkit (acq. by Salesforce) - Hightouch (Reverse ETL) - Rocketlane (PSA software) - Stytch (Auth Infrastructure) - Airbyte (Open-source ETL) - Koala (AI Sales Prospecting) - Plum (Insurance benefits)
Product Lead
2020 - 2021
Segment - Twilio integration, developer marketing and other stuff.
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.
Raised $614,415,525.00 from TCV.
Product Lead
2018 - 2021
- PM: Segment’s Developer Center and grew the catalog to 350+ integrations. - Senior PM: Segment Functions and Growth (self-serve business). - Product Evangelist: Led Twilio Segment's Developer Marketing efforts.
Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Raised $283,934,700.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Different Shades of PLG: Free-Trial or Freemium? - Battery Ventures
Talks about Battery Ventures, Investment strategies and Application Software
🔥 vs. ❄️: Databricks and Snowflake Face Off as AI Wave Approaches - Battery Ventures
Talks about Battery Ventures, Databricks and Snowflake
Is PLG the Right Go-To-Market Strategy for My Startup? Three Key Questions to Ask - Battery Ventures
Talks about Battery Ventures, Investment strategies and Product-led growth (PLG)