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Shruti Gandhi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
192 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

I think it's a recurring SASE.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Yeah, we have another company called Passage AI, which is in the conversational AI space, which what they do is basically you're able to, it's a chat bot, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

But instead of communicating with a Coles or a Macy's,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

over the regular mediums we do today, you can talk to Alexa and say, Alexa, talk to Coles about whatever, buying these pair of pants, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

So that's an interesting approach, but what we're also looking for is interesting ways to use voice in

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

everyday life, um, and how enterprises can access and use and take, go after what Alexa and Google home have done, but be more closer to their customer through these, through the voice medium.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Actually, yeah, there are a lot of, um, the biggest reason why I got into something like this, like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

investing in venture and solving big problems, was I wanted to solve core fundamental needs in the world, which is food, water, shelter, all those kind of like the original Maslow hierarchy problems, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

Not the Wi-Fi and so forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

But we ended up investing in that Wi-Fi and connectivity and all those categories, which is great, and I love that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

But what we largely think about as well is

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

How do you go solve the problems in agriculture, in ocean, in food, in transportation?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

very large industries that affect our lives and create a pain point that if we solve that, that there's a large opportunity to increase the world GDP by a huge percent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

So we constantly think about those large markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

We haven't made a bet in agriculture, ocean tech, or any of those industries yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

We have invested in transportation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

A couple of our companies are a company called Zendar and X-Wing that used up perception to solve the autonomous industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

car and the autonomous airplane industry problems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1256 How Array.VC Raised First $15m, Why They Like Art19 Investment

But generally, we're open to anyone who's thinking large in any industry.