Sandhya Venkatachalam is an accomplished technology executive, venture capitalist, and startup investor with an impressive track record of building and scaling high-growth technology companies. She studied economics at Harvard University and earned her MBA from The Wharton School. Venkatachalam has helped build and sell two technology companies worth over $9.5 billion and has acquired startups valued at over $7 billion for large technology firms.

Currently, Sandhya Venkatachalam is a Partner at Khosla Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital firm. She is an expert in investing in machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies and is a frequent speaker on the impact of AI on society. Venkatachalam is a guest publisher on AI for Forbes.com and the World Economic Forum. Besides being an advisor at several technology startups, she has invested in category-defining companies in AI, Big Data, SaaS, and Communications technologies.

Her professional experience includes serving as a Director of Corporate Development at Cisco Systems and as the VP Monetization and Head of Corporate Development at Skype. Venkatachalam also worked at J. P. Morgan as a Senior Analyst in Emerging Markets M&A. She has served on the Board of Directors of several companies, including RichRelevance and Mara Sokoni. Venkatachalam has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.