Shruti Gandhi

Founder & General Partner, Array Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Shruti Gandhi is the founder and general partner of Array Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. She focuses on investments in enterprise and B2B deep technology startups.

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Insight

Gandhi: Venture pattern matching favors founders who mirror the investors

“There's a lot of pattern matching people talk about in venture, and that pattern usually is in people like themselves, right?”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 5:34 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Insight

Gandhi: Teams without a sales strategy build features, not businesses

“And when you're starting out your teams, if you don't have that sales strategy, Hire, which a lot of times people don't, you know, you're not building a business. You're building a feature”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 3:12 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Opinion

Gandhi: Most podcasting tools focus on discovery rather than enterprise needs

“Most of the podcasting tools out there were more around how do you, around discovery, but not many tools around creation and selling to companies.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 10:08 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Disclosure

Array Ventures prioritizes revenue acceleration to $1M and $10M ARR over specific models

“We believe in just. Revenue acceleration as fast as we can. So the lot of the programming we focus on when we invest in our companies is how to get from zero to one and in ARR and then from one to ten million as fast as we can.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 2:28 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Disclosure

Gandhi: Array Ventures' Fund I was $15M to $20M

“Fund one we don't really share our numbers because they're through multiple mediums, but generally in the stage in size of 15 to twenty million.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 4:20 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Disclosure

Gandhi: Array Ventures targets 8% to 10% ownership at pre-seed

“So we come in anywhere owning eight to 10% at that stage.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 7:51 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Disclosure

Gandhi: Array Ventures' sweet spot is a $500,000 first check

“This spot is exactly that, right? Like half a million to founders. It's usually the first round of institutional money.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 8:03 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Disclosure

Gandhi says Simility is Array Ventures' biggest paper return

“Simility.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 15:12 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Disclosure

Gandhi: Array Ventures focuses on enterprise deep tech reviving legacy industries

“Array focuses on enterprise deep tech companies. So founders that want to go solve big industries that are old, but need reviving with data analytics, machine learning, any strong tech.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 1:58 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

What-if

Gandhi: I would have accomplished more by 36 if bolder earlier

“I was too afraid to just go and experiment, and I worried a lot about plan B and backups, and, you know, there's not much to lose at that time, so I would have done a lot more By this age, I was just that bold.”

Shruti Gandhi Jan 1, 2019 ▶ 19:59 1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment	Jan 1, 2019	12m

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