Srikanth Sundararajan

Active Investor

General Partner at VenturEast

Hyderabad, Telangana

Srikanth Sundararajan, General Partner at VenturEast is an active investor based in Hyderabad, Telangana. This profile covers what Srikanth Sundararajan backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Srikanth Sundararajan serves as General Partner at VenturEast. Dr. Sundararajan is the Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer & Chairman at Pretzel Logic. Dr. Sundararajan serves as Member of Board of Advisors at iCrederity. Dr. Sundararajan is an Angel Investor. Dr. Sundararajan served as Advisor at Active.Ai. He brings with him over 25 years of innovative IT and entrepreneurial experience with a host of leading technology firms in India and the US. Prior to Ventureast, he was the Worldwide Head of Corporate Strategy and Technology and previously, Chief Operating Officer of Persistent Systems, Pvt. Ltd. He was instrumental in establishing industry-leading practices in the areas of Cloud Computing, Mobility, Analytics, and collaboration, which today drive 50% of the company's revenues; and serviced marquee clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Force.com, Google, Rack Space, Yahoo, VM Ware, Wells Fargo, among others. During his tenure, the company more than tripled its revenue and had a very successful public offering in April of 2010. Before Persistent Systems, he founded Pretzel Logic, a wining software product services business and, over a nine-year period, provided design/architecture/implementation consulting expertise to companies like SUN, SGI, HP, and SAIC, registering triple-digit growth for six straight years and gaining recognition as one of the Top 100 Private Companies in the Bay Area three years in a row. His firm was acquired in 2001 by a BEA Systems Inc. spin-off. He was also the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of HCL, responsible for delivery and all strategic technology initiatives, after which he transitioned to become the worldwide CTO for Cognizant. He was responsible for setting up and driving worldwide product development for International Decision Systems, a financial services product startup, which was eventually acquired by a large private equity firm. During this tenure at HP, he was part of the original team that architected and implemented the first IDE on Unix for C/C++/Cobol called SoftBench. Industry leaders such as IBM, CDC, Informix, and Honeywell-Bull licensed this technology. He has a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras and earned his MS and Ph.D. in Computer & Information Sciences from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has made innumerable contributions to conferences over the years and is also the holder of patents. He is a Visiting Faculty at Virginia Tech and IIT Bhubaneswar, where his focus areas are Cloud Computing and Software Engineering.

Investor type: AngelVCPE
Stages: Early Stage VenturePre SeedSeries A
Invests in: FintechHealthcare & BiotechDigital Health & HealthTechBiotech & PharmaSaaS & EnterpriseConsumer & RetailConsumer Goods (CPG)E-commerce & D2C
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 8

Notable investments

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