Sudheer Kuppam

CEO

Cupertino, California, United States31 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led investments of over USD 600M in 100+ startups.
  • Managed a USD 250M Intel Capital India technology fund.
  • Served on 30+ boards globally.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with extensive experience in Blockchain and AI-driven startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic PartnershipsCorporate DevelopmentAiCloud ComputingVenture CapitalBlockchainLeadershipR&d ManagementR&d

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentTechnology VC InvestmentsKYCAMLCryptocurrencyNFTsProduct DevelopmentInvestment ManagementManufacturingIPOEmerging MarketsPrivate EquityEntrepreneurshipStart-upsStrategy Development

About

Sudheer Kuppam has a process-rich global (US/Europe/APAC) market experience in stage-agnostic equity investments and has invested USD 600M+ in more than 100+ startups generating multiple exits and unicorns. Sudheer has also successfully managed a USD 250M Intel Capital India technology fund with 2.8X (35% Realized IRR) MOIC on his investment portfolio. Over the past two decades, he has been a director on 30+ boards globally and a founder of a few innovative tech start-ups in India and Singapore (Zebi, Pi Datacenters, Exatron), successfully leading USD 10M ICOs and assisting multiple companies in global exchange listings.

Experience

31 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Omvrti.ai

Strategic Advisor

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Corporate Development and Biz Dev
Corporate DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Partnerships

Exafluence

Strategic Advisor

May 2022Apr 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Jersey, United States

Venturerock

General Partner

Apr 2022Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Hyperverge inc.

Strategic Advisor

Apr 2022May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Los Altos, California, United States

  • AI based ID/KYC/AML management solutions for Web3 ecosystem
AIKYCAML

Latoken

Strategic Advisor

Apr 2022Apr 2023 · 1 yr · Estonia

  • Global Crypto Exchange

Enlitenai, inc

Strategic Advisor

Jul 2021Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • EnlitenAI is an early stage startup that is creating an AI based Cloud platform called NeuroLiten to address Neurological conditions and Mental Health
AICloud Computing

Chempower corporation

Strategic Advisor

Apr 2021Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area · Remote

Ξdgξ

Strategic Advisor

Nov 2020Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Newchip accelerator

Mentor

Jun 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · United States

Cricket foundation

Cofounder and Board Member

Apr 2020Apr 2022 · 2 yrs · Singapore

  • Cricket Foundation is a blockchain-based layer 1 platform with a vision to incorporate different aspects of the sport and power it using cryptocurrencies. The first application is Cricket NFTs of iconic moments

Zebi

2 roles

CEO

Jan 2019Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Milpitas, California, United States

  • Built leadership team and generated product revenues
  • Acquired Element42, another blockchain company
BlockchainNFTs

Board Member

Oct 2015Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Milpitas, California, United States

  • Zebi is a public blockchain designed to be a multi-chain and multi-token platform built on Cosmos, with modular libraries for several data and security use cases. Zebi is launching NFT platforms for Cricket and Bollywood in 2021
BlockchainCryptocurrency

International cryptox pte ltd

Cofounder and Board Member

Mar 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Launched state of the art Crypto exchange on 100G private cloud in India
  • Built leadership team
  • Navigated troubled waters due to Crypto's nuclear winter coupled with India Crypto ban
  • Shutdown the biz as company could not get market traction
LeadershipProduct Development

Exatron

Board Member

Jan 2017Nov 2022 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Ssi innovations china ltd

Board Member

Oct 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  • SSI Innovations makes robotic medical surgery equipment and offers robotic surgery services in China

Epsilon venture partners

Managing Partner

Sep 2015Present · 10 yrs 8 mos · Saratoga, California, United States

  • Technology VC Investments
  • http://epsilonventurepartners.com
Technology VC InvestmentsVenture Capital

Pi datacenters

Board Member

Aug 2015Present · 10 yrs 9 mos · India

  • Operates Asia's largest Uptime certified Tier 4 Datacenter in India
  • https://pidatacenters.com

Snapdeal

Advisory Board Member

Apr 2011Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • eCommerce market place
Investment ManagementVenture Capital

World economic forum

Technology Pioneers Selection Committee

Apr 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Potential Technology Pioneer companies are assessed by a committee consisting of the most reputed global technology and industry experts. The Selection Committee includes individuals capable of assessing both the novelty and
  • innovativeness of the technology employed by the potential Technology Pioneer, as well as its potential commercial
  • impact.

Intel capital

3 roles

Vice President and Managing Director

Mar 2007Aug 2015 · 8 yrs 5 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

  • Sudheer Kuppam is a Managing Director at Intel Capital overseeing investments in Asia Pacific region. Sudheer is part of the investment committee that approves all investments in this region. Based out of India, Sudheer manages a team of investment professionals located in Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei & Tokyo. He is also responsible for the $250M Intel Capital India technology fund. Under his leadership, Sudheer and his team invested over $580M in the region and drove multiple exits for Intel Capital globally, including Focaltech (Taiwan) – IPO; V-cube (Japan) – IPO; Montage (China) – IPO (Nasdaq); Aspeed (Taiwan) - IPO; MCX (India) – IPO; Skymedi (Taiwan) – IPO; Powertech (Taiwan) – PIPE deal; Epichem (UK) – Acquired by SIAL; Clearshape (US) – Acquired by Cadence; Trichem (Japan) – IPO; FPT (Vietnam) – IPO; ADA Cellworks (Malaysia) – Acquired by GTL India; Persistent (India) – IPO; Dealmates (Malaysia) – IPO; Crossing (US) – Acquired by Brooks; WSO2 (Sri Lanka) – Acquired by PE firm. Sudheer was on multiple boards during his tenure at Intel Capital.

Director

Promoted

Oct 2000Jan 2007 · 6 yrs 3 mos

  • Intel Capital is the corporate investing arm of Intel Corp (INTC).
  • Intel Capital is a global commitment aimed at investing and supporting profitable enterprises that will drive internet growth, enable new usage models, and advance industry standards. We build companies using our worldwide customer base, technological knowledge, unlimited access to capital, and the power of the Intel brand. While financial return is imperative, our greater mission is to spur innovation and inspire the entrepreneurial spirit to thrive.
  • www.intel.com/capital
Investment ManagementVenture Capital

Engineering Manager

Apr 1997Oct 2000 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Overseeing R&D, manufacturing and HVM transfer in Intel's Technology & Manufacturing Group.
  •  Managed $100M operational area for Intel fab and drove costs down by >50%
  •  Spearheaded several successful logic product ramps of various CPUs (Celeron, Pentium MMX, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV & Mobile CPUs) & Chipsets
  •  Led multiple flash memory product ramps – 4 MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32 MB NOR Flash memory targeted at Mobile communication segment
  •  Managed staffing, training and development of 80 engineers/supervisors/technicians in a dynamic, world-class, engineering and manufacturing organization
  •  Developed “Self Aligned Poly” architecture for smaller die size & CWPSP for better manufacturability
R&D ManagementManufacturing

Real image media technologies pvt ltd

Advisory Board Member

Mar 2007Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

Nanosys

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2005Feb 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Nanotechnology IP

Ovonyx

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2005Feb 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Boise, Idaho, United States

  • Non Volatile Memory technologies

Nanochip

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2005Feb 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Fremont, California, United States

  • Next gen memory tech

Molecular imprints, inc.

Board Observer

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs · Austin, Texas, United States

  • Semiconductor manufacturing technologies
R&DManufacturing

Lsi logic

Process Development Engineer

Jan 1996Apr 1997 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  •  R&D and manufacturing: CMP of Oxide and W and CMP cleaning (0.35 m processes) for ASICS

Sematech/src

Research Assistant

Aug 1994Dec 1995 · 1 yr 4 mos · Albany, New York Area

  • CMP R&D

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MS

Jan 1994Jan 1995

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

B. Tech

Jan 1990Jan 1994

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