Sandhya Venkatachalam spent the first half of her career building technology companies. She led product at an early data center hardware company that was sold to Cisco, then became a product executive at Skype before its sale to Microsoft. Those roles brought her into data and machine learning years before AI became venture capital’s dominant theme.

She later became a general partner at Social Capital, where she led early institutional investments in AI chipmaker Groq, and later invested at Khosla Ventures. Now she’s founder and managing partner of Axiom Partners, a $52 million fund backing startups that use AI to do work in industries such as construction, industrials and insurance. READ MORE