Arun Ramamoorthy

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Biography

Mr. Arun Ramamoorthy served as General Partner at Pinnacle Ventures. He serves as Board Observer at Nirmata. He is a Founding Partner at Z5 Capital. He serves as Board Member at CoreStack. He serves as Board Member at qiibee and SmartApps. He focuses on mobile, internet, and enterprise investments, where technology shifts disrupt the market. He led Pinnacle's assets and served on the boards of Telestax, a leading open-source platform that enables companies to deploy RTC applications involving voice, video, messaging, and IOT, and Evie, a mobile launcher with universal search, He also led Pinnacle's investment in OpsClarity that provides monitoring for modern applications and data infrastructure. He served as Board Member at AutonomIQ. He is currently involved with HotChalk, an educational technology provider partnering with universities to bring degrees online; Boost Media which helps source, manage, and test ad copy for paid search and Nextbit, a developer of a cloud Android phone. Some of his prior involvements include TinyCo (SGN), Pentaho (HDS), Newport Media (ATML), WiChorus (TLAB), and Zecter (MOT/GOOG). Before joining Pinnacle Ventures, he spent over 8 years in various operating roles spanning strategy, marketing, product development, supply chain, and investments. In the Sales and Marketing Group at Intel, his focus was on strategic marketing and branding covering all product lines. He has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He holds 8 patents and has an additional 3 in process.