Webinar
Venture Insights: Why We are Investing Early and Often in AI-Robotics
Join Alumni Ventures’ Naren Ramaswamy and Rupika Brito for an in-depth discussion on why AI and robotics are becoming a top priority for venture investors.
Expert VCs will share how advances in machine learning, automation, and intelligent systems are opening up massive opportunities across industries.
You’ll gain insight into why Alumni Ventures is actively investing early and often in this space, and how these technologies are poised to transform sectors from healthcare to manufacturing.
Whether you’re a seasoned investor or exploring venture for the first time, this webinar will offer a strategic look at the future of AI-driven innovation. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear directly from the team identifying and backing the startups leading this technological revolution.
Why Attend?
- HomeIndustry Trends: Understand why AI and robotics are at the center of the next wave of innovation.
- HomeInvestment Strategy: Learn how and why early-stage investments in this space are creating outsized opportunities.
- HomeExpert Insights: Hear from Naren and Rupika on how Alumni Ventures evaluates and selects leading AI-robotics startups.
Reserve your spot today to explore how you can invest in the future of AI and robotics. Alumni Ventures is America’s largest venture capital firm for individual investors.
About your presenters
Naren combines a technical engineering background with experience at startups and VC firms. Before joining AV, he worked with the investing team at venture firm Data Collective (DCVC) looking at frontier tech deals. Before that, he was a Program Manager at Apple and Tesla and has worked for multiple consumer startups. Naren received a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In his free time, he enjoys teaching golf to beginners and composing music.
Principal
Rupika is a dynamic investor who brings experience in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and investment banking. Her career spans both operating and investing roles, with particular expertise in emerging technologies.
Prior to joining Alumni Ventures, Rupika led corporate venture initiatives at Blockstream, a venture-backed Bitcoin infrastructure company, where she sourced and evaluated fintech investment opportunities while also managing product strategy for Blockstream Finance. Previously, she founded a search fund focused on investing in underserved communities, where she helped drive growth through strategic acquisitions, scaling the organization to over $60 million in revenue.
Her experience also includes investment banking at Bank of America, where she executed private equity transactions primarily across the technology and healthcare sectors, working on leveraged buyouts, IPOs, and M&A transactions.
Rupika holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of California, San Diego. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she actively engages with the local startup ecosystem and enjoys exploring the region’s diverse restaurant scene.