Shruti Gandhi

Shruti Gandhi brings a strong mix of operating and investing experience. She has invested in 9 companies which have resulted in 4 successful exits over last 3 years. Previously, Shruti was a tech investor at True Ventures where she helped invest in Murj & Datoscloud. As an investor at Samsung Electronics, she helped acquire MOVL and was on the board of Engrade (acquired by McGraw Hill Education), LearnSprout, Agnitus, and Zimperium. Shruti has also worked in the venture investing space at Lightbank, HighBAR Partners, and the i2A Fund, where she participated in investments in Vyatta (acquired by Brocade). Shruti started her career as an engineer in an emerging tech group (WebAhead), worked on collaboration tools at IBM (Lotus Sametime), worked on an internal incubator (Technology Adoption Program) and a think/do tank (Global Innovation Outlook) for the Chairman & CEO, Sam Palmisano’s, office. Shruti was also the Founder of Penseev, a platform that gathered social data to create visual memories of your life. Shruti is on the marketing & technology committees at SF Ballet and is a co-chair of TiE’s San Francisco. Acting on a lifelong passion for helping the advancement of women in engineering and finance, Shruti helped start TiE’s Women’s Forum. Shruti is a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She earned an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University and a BS in Computer Science from Marist College.