Avi Bharadwaj

Avi grew up in Bangalore, India and studied electronics engineering in his undergrad. He holds an MS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. In his free time, Avi enjoys traveling and landscape photography.

Aravind “Avi” Bharadwaj is an Investment Director at Intel Capital and is based in the Bay Area.

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Avi led Intel Capital’s investments in Bria AI and Twelve Labs, and focuses on investments in data, analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning platforms, and enterprise software, among other areas.

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Prior to Intel Capital, Avi was a Principal at Innovation Endeavors, an early- and expansion-stage venture capital firm where he primarily focused on enterprise software investments. While at Innovation Endeavors, Avi served as a board director/observer for companies such as AlphaSense, RightBound, Datorama (acquired by Salesforce, Inc.), DataRails, and TuneIn.

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Previously, Avi was a data scientist in the strategy and analytics consulting practice at IBM. Prior to that, he was a full-stack software engineer at Goldman Sachs.