Sandhya Venkatachalam

Sandhya is passionate about helping founders transform industries through the use of AI/ML and other new, emerging technologies. Sandhya was previously the founder and Managing Partner of Deep Ventures, a seed investment firm focused on entrepreneurs who were tackling hard, unsolved problems through the use of AI/ML. Prior to Deep Ventures, Sandhya was a General Partner at Social Capital, co-head of the Growth Fund and the lead for AI investments. Sandhya was also 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 Advertising product business for Skype from pre-revenue to $100m that laid the foundation for the company’s planned IPO and eventual sale to Microsoft for $8.5 billion.