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. In an interview with Crunchbase News, Venkatachalam discusses why she looks beyond familiar founder profiles, what makes an AI company durable, and how an early investment in Groq shaped her approach. Venkatachalam: One thing I took was Vinod Khosla's open view of where great founders can come from....
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