Know Your Investors

Yashwanth Hemaraj, a venture capital investor at Benhamou Global Ventures, specializes in digital enterprise transformation, focusing on cloud technologies, cybersecurity, IoT, and analytics. His investments include Tagnos, Totango, and Macrometa. He offers startup mentorship, covering fundraising, market strategies, and product development. Previously, he was an engineer at SpiderCloud Wireless and holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Viraj Phanse, a venture capital investor at Arka Venture Labs, specializes in enterprise AI, SaaS, infrastructure, data, analytics and cloud. Viraj brings deep cross-border operational, investment and entrepreneurial experience. He was the CEO and co-founder of a venture-backed AI and data startup that achieved an exit in two years, a product and strategy leader at AWS and Oracle, and a go-to-market and business leader at Aerospike and Persistent Systems. He was also a Venture Partner at U First Capital and a Fellow and Selection Committee Member at Berkeley Angel Network. He earned his MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, an MS in Computer Science from UCLA, and a B.Eng from Pune University.

A venture capital investor at Arka, Aarushi Khanna specializes in early-stage SaaS investments and corporate partnerships. She brings a diverse background in corporate mergers & acquisitions, solution architecture, and business development across various geographies. A founding team member at two tech startups in the mobile intelligence and robotics space, Aarushi holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and a B.Tech. from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka.