Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

• Solo General Partner at Schema Ventures - first‑check capital for outsiders building the essential software that quietly runs the world.

Nov 2024 – May 2025 · 6 mos

May 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

Nov 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr

• Led engineering and product teams at Rithum, driving profitable growth for major retailers and brands.
• Developed AI-powered solutions to scale faster and drive efficiency across e-commerce platforms.
• Spearheaded the transformation of Rithum into a leading player in the 3P e-commerce industry.

Jan 2023 – Nov 2023 · 10 mos

May 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco, California, United States

• Scaling Clubhouse product + partnerships in international markets and launching products catered to strategic Tier 1 markets such as localization in 30+ languages. Launched programs such as Creator First in India and Brazil, partnering with local influencers, creators and brands to scale Clubhouse, and overall setting international product and operations strategy.

Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Hosting The Aarthi and Sriram Show, a top technology podcast featuring prominent founders, builders, and creators worldwide.
• Interview industry leaders like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Calvin Harris, and The Chainsmokers to share insights and stories.
• Manage show production, guest scheduling, and audience engagement to grow listenership and brand recognition.

Jan 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Leading product efforts at CPG (Communities Product Group) at Facebook. This org is responsible for helping people build healthy, sustainable communities on Facebook (on FB Groups, Profiles and Pages), find ways to engage with each other meaningfully, and express their unique and diverse values. Some of these products and tools launched at Facebook Communities Summit this year (FCS 2020), including Prompts, Q&A, creating online events and content organization for Facebook Groups.

Dec 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Product lead on creator monetization at Facebook - building payments infrastructure + payments and monetization tools and experiences (such as tipping, subscriptions, ticketing etc.) for creators using Video, Games, Social Good and other digital commerce experiences and virtual goods on Facebook and Facebook's family of apps.
• Built the first digital subscription product for Facebook used by video content creators to make meaningful income on Facebook. Built Facebook Stars - a successful one time tipping payment product that gaming fans use to pay gaming streamers.

Jul 2018 – May 2025 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Investor in over 30 startups including Meter, Photon Health, Agnikul, Laylo, Moonpay, Karbon card, Brilliant, Pinwheel, and Rowy (Buildship).
• I bring my founder knowledge, operational experience, and my network to help founders build and scale their companies.

May 2013 – Feb 2020 · 6 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Founder and CEO of Lumoid - Lumoid is a YCombinator-backed company that provides a try before you buy service for consumer electronics such as drones, photography gear, health and wellness devices and audio gear.
• Launched the company in Jan 2014 as solo founder, hired and scaled the team across San Francisco and New York, raised multiple rounds of seed and venture capital and have established multiple partnerships with manufacturers and retailers.
• Best Buy Partnership - Structured a complex 3-part strategic partnership with Best Buy, by working with multiple teams within Best Buy. Today, Lumoid powers Best Buy's try-before-you-buy service, which provides a dual benefit for Best Buy - it reduces their 'open box' returned inventory and increases additional revenue by introducing paid trials.
• Recent partnership with Best Buy - http://fortune.com/2017/06/13/best-buy-amazon-apple-rent-try-buy/
• Recent partnership with Ritz Carlton - https://unmanned-aerial.com/ritz-carlton-san-francisco-bay-area-offers-guests-drone-academy
• Women in Business Q&A - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-dunn/women-in-business-qa-aart_b_6721104.html

Oct 2012 – Apr 2013 · 6 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• http://allthingsd.com/20121102/trueco-co-founder-ramamurthy-joins-battery-as-eir/

Oct 2011 – Sep 2012 · 11 mos

• https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/bra-startup-trueco-sold-to-calvin-klein-owner-pvh/

Mar 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr · Los Gatos, CA

• Product Manager of Netflix Ready Device Platform (NRDP), the SDK used by internal and external partners to integrate Netflix into CE devices.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2011 · 6 yrs

• Xbox LIVE experience:
• Built Xbox LIVE APIs for awarding gamer score, achievements, leaderboard access and other parts of the Xbox LIVE experience. Built the application model for running Xbox LIVE games on Windows Phone.
• CLR (Common Language Runtime) experience:
• Was responsible for several runtime components including the CLR Loader and Binder. Designed a new GAC (Global Assembly Cache) and improvements in how the Binder located assemblies at runtime as part of Visual Studio 2010. Co-authored an MSDN article on CLR Binder - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd727509.aspx
• Visual Studio experience:
• PM for various Managed parts (written on CLR) of the Visual Studio IDE for 'smart' devices such as Pocket PCs and Smartphones. Built the Device Security Manager as part of Visual Studio 2008.