Shruti Gandhi

General Partner & Founding Engineer

2016

Array.vc is the first lead investor in over 85 AI. infra companies across all industries with a check size of $250k-$2m

LP / Board Member

2021

The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS) administers the City’s $25B+ pension plan, a cost-sharing multiple-employer defined benefit that is funded through employee and employer contributions and investment earnings. Role as a Retirement Board Member is to establish and follow policies governing the administration, management, and operation of the City’s retirement plans; manage the investment of the Retirement System’s assets; approve disability benefit determinations; and approve actuarial assumptions used to fund long-term benefit promises of the SFERS Pension Plan.

Investor

2014 - 2016

Principal, Samsung Next

2012 - 2014

Early-stage venture fund created to invest $250k - $3M in startups Investor in MOVL (acquired by Samsung), Engrade (acquired by McGraw Hill), LearnSprout (acquired by Apple), Ziperium ( raised Series D with Softbank).

CEO and Founder

2010 - 2011

BigData company that analyzed and sorted user's social information and helped them make mindful connections

Software Engineer

2001 - 2010

Think/Do Tank (Global Innovation Outlook) / Chairman’s Office 2008 - 2011 Incubator (Technology Adoption Program) / CIOs Office 2006 - 2008 Software Engineer (Webahead) / Lotus Real-time Collaboration 2001 - 2006 Shruti started her career as a developer in middleware security group at IBM, an emerging tech group (WebAhead) where her research on instant messaging, location-based services, VoIP, & collaboration tools became the next commercial product at IBM (Lotus Sametime). She then built an incubator (Technology Adoption Program) which was adopted by 1/3rd (120K employees) of the company in 2 years. 20% of the technology from the incubator was adopted by product groups such as Websphere, Tivoli, and Lotus. She also helped commercialize the incubator platform and sell it to companies such as Nokia and Sprint. Later she worked at a think tank/do tank for IBM’s Chairman & CEO, Sam Palmisano’s, office. The program was created to solve big problems in the world. Some of the topics addressed by the team were Water, Security, Healthcare, and Media. The National Genographic project in partnership with National Geographic, and current IBM Smarter Planet are two of the few the outcomes of this team.