Raghuram Madabushi

Raghu is Director, Investments at National Grid Partners. Raghu focuses on investing in early stage companies in the broad enterprise and energy infrastructure SW vertical. Raghu has 20+ years of experience with technology, capital markets, and IP/innovation. During his time at National Grid Partners, he has invested in founder-centric, technology differentiated startups like AccuKnox, Sync Computing, Leap.energy, Baffle.io, and AptEdge.

Before working at National Grid Partners, Raghu worked at SRI Ventures and GE Ventures investing in deep tech and industrial infrastructure (SW, HW, and telecom). He also brings extensive experience in the hardware and software design space having worked in various roles including, semiconductor fabrication, chip design, systems architecture, strategy, and marketing (Texas Instruments, Intel, Cadence Design Systems).

Raghu received an MBA in Finance and Investments from Southern Methodist University and an MS in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, and currently serves as a Kauffman Fellow. You can often catch him honing his mean backhand at a badminton court, with fellow investors and founders.