Venkat Ramana

Venkat Ramana is the co-founder of Splice Capital, a venture capital and investment-management firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India. According to his own LinkedIn summary, he is a "business leader with 17+ years of international management experience in IT and e-commerce," and his career spans business scaling, turnarounds, and mentoring across India, the US, and Europe, including work with Fortune 500 companies. He earned a B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering), reportedly in Computer Science, from a Regional Engineering College (REC) between 1989 and 1993.

Before moving into investing, Ramana held operating and consulting roles in the IT services industry, including a stint at Sierra Atlantic (a Hyderabad-rooted IT services company later acquired by Hitachi) as a project leader. That operating background underpins Splice Capital's positioning: the firm markets itself as providing not just capital but "operational expertise," bringing training, incubation, mentoring, and professional networks to the companies it backs.

At Splice Capital, Ramana is part of a small team (the firm describes a team of roughly three, with one partner). The firm's stated philosophy rests on three principles — integrity, "creativity in speed to scale," and operational excellence — and it has built ties to India's startup-support ecosystem, citing partnerships with RTBI (the IIT-Madras incubator), the Indian Angel Network, IIM-Ahmedabad's CIIE, Nurture Talent, and Mentor Square. He is currently based in the South Croydon area of greater London.

• Invests primarily at the seed / early stage, making what the firm calls "micro investments" backed by hands-on operational support rather than capital alone.
• Targets "businesses that can improve productivity, access, and quality of life, particularly in rural and semi-urban communities" in India (the firm's own framing).
• Core sectors: agriculture, education, healthcare, and high tech, plus consumer internet, enterprise applications, and retail/consumer plays.
• Looks for ventures that expand educational access, increase efficiency and profitability, improve health outcomes, and build digital solutions for emerging and underserved markets.
• Differentiator: offers venture capital + operational expertise — training, incubation, mentoring, and access to professional networks — leveraging the founders' Fortune 500 and cross-border (India/US/Europe) operating experience.