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Varun Jain
General Partner at SE Ventures
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Varun Jain is the Founding General Partner at SE Ventures, focusing on investing in Climate and Industrial SaaS companies, with a strong track record in venture capital, due diligence, and deal sourcing. His career highlights include leading SE Ventures and serving on the boards of companies like Augury and AiDash, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting innovative startups in the tech sector.
Work Experience
Founding General Partner
2019 - Current
SE Ventures is a $1.1B AUM specialist VC fund backed by Schneider Electric and focused on software-centric early growth deals in climate and industrial tech. Learn more at https://www.seventures.com
SE Ventures is a $1B+ global venture capital fund backed by Schneider Electric.
Investor
2025
AI-native cloud that is enabling enterprises to harness open-source large-language models to build scalable and cost-efficient Gen AI applications.
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models.
Raised $228,500,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Soumith Chintala, Lux Capital, Prosperity7 Ventures, Greycroft, Manu Sharma, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Factory and Clément Delangue.
Board Member
2021
#1 AI-enabled production health platform for process manufacturing.
Augury provides machine health diagnostics designed to help reduce downtime and increase supply chain resilience.
Raised $294,000,000.00 from Munich Re Ventures, Insight Partners, Lerer Hippeau, Baker Hughes, Eclipse Ventures, Qumra Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and SE Ventures.
Investor
2022
#1 cloud-based rebate management platform for B2B transactions.
Enable is a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management.
Raised $276,000,000.00 from Gaingels.
Board Member
2022
#1 AI-enabled climate risk management platform for power transmission and distribution assets.
Making critical infrastructure industries climate resilient and sustainable with satellite-first AI applications.
Raised $91,500,000.00 from G2 Venture Partners, SE Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP), Benhamou Global Ventures, Shell Ventures, Duke Investments LLC, Marubeni, Edison International, Sabancı Holding and Lightrock.
Investor
2024
First Street is the fastest growing climate risk financial modeling platform for banks, asset managers and large corporations.
Limited Partner
2023
Investor
2023
Leading AI-enabled quality and yield improvement platform for discrete manufacturing.
Investor
2021
Generative AI based co-pilot for automating customer service operations.
Aquant is an enterprise AI platform that uses machine learning to learn the enterprise's unique language and maximize equipment uptime.
Raised $115,550,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pitango VC, 2050 Capital, ClalTech, Insight Partners, Angular Ventures, Qumra Capital and SE Ventures.
Board Member
2021
Financing solutions for renewable projects in the C&I market.
Unlocking financing for clean energy solutions by underwriting credit risk for unrated or below investment grade organizations.
Raised $11,440,000.00 from Greensoil PropTech Ventures, SE Ventures, MS&AD Ventures, Congruent Ventures and MUUS Climate Partners.