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The Small-Check Strategy Behind A.Capital’s Biggest Bets
A.Capital built its pitch around a Silicon Valley heresy: a venture firm does not need a fixed ownership target to matter. Its wager is that recruiting muscle, technical judgment and the right introduction can make a small slice unusually consequential.
The Fund That Only Swings at the Ones It Can Hit
A Boston venture firm borrowed its name from the last man to hit .400 in baseball - and built a discipline of only swinging at cybersecurity, healthcare, and data + AI deals where it holds an unfair advantage.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is a General Partner at A.Capital Ventures, the San Francisco-based VC firm known for a founder-friendly approach and a portfolio spanning Notion, Anthropic, Databricks, Coinbase, and Replit. An engineer turned product manager turned investor, Ramu brings a rare depth of technical credibility to the table - he helped build VMware's first virtual switch, shaped a16z's Cloud and Big Data thesis during his time as Partner there, and now leads A.Capital's $180M Fund V with a focus on AI and crypto-native companies.