Sandhya Venkatachalam

Sandhya is a Partner at Khosla Ventures and invests in founders who are tackling hard, unsolved problems through the use of AI/ML. She was an early investor in One Concern, LunchClub.ai, Helm.ai, Forethought.ai, Fireflies.ai and Groq. Before becoming a VC, Sandhya was both an entrepreneur and an executive. She was the Head of Corporate Development and Vice President of Product at Skype, reporting to the CEO, post the spinout from eBay. Sandhya led the team that built an entirely new data-driven product business for Skype from pre-revenue to $100M that laid the foundation for the company’s eventual sale to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Sandhya began her technology career as the first product manager at Andiamo Systems, a leading data center startup that was acquired by Cisco for $1.5 billion. Sandhya holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business and an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University.