Aravinda Seshadri
Founding Partner, Venturous Counsel, a Professional Corporation
Aravinda is the Founding Partner of Venturous Counsel, a uniquely mission-driven firm dedicated to exclusively representing underestimated startups and investors who are also committed to prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion in their own organizations, as well as assisting such business to find the right legal partner, to help level the playing field for these startups and investors in terms of access to quality legal counsel. As a part of that work, she actively maintains and expands her network of diverse-led law firms and diverse attorneys to whom she can refer startups and investors needing the right legal partner. To this end, she has initiated a series of Diversity Referral events, organized to give diverse lawyers in various specialty areas the opportunity to showcase their practices to other attorneys, particularly those in large law firms, in-house and government positions, to broaden networks and facilitate community support across the board. She is the chair of the Solo/Small Firms committee of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. She also participates in various technology and legal forums that focus on women and women of color, advising accelerators with diverse cohorts and judging startup pitch events at UC Hastings. Aravinda has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2015. She was previously a Partner at Silicon Legal Strategy in San Francisco, before which, she was a corporate associate in the startup practice of Hogan Lovells in Palo Alto. She started her career in Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group in Menlo Park. Aravinda received her law degree with distinction from Stanford University Law School and her undergraduate degree with honors in Language and Mind from New York University. She has represented a broad range of startups, entrepreneurs, venture capital firms and public companies, working directly with high-level executives and directors, advising companies and investors in various equity financing structures, M&A transactions, licensing and strategic partnerships, as well as day-to-day counseling. She has worked with companies from formation through financing rounds to acquisition or public offering and been primarily responsible for SEC reporting obligations thereafter.
