Vidu Shanmugarajah
@vidushanmug
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Partner @GVteam (Google Ventures), based in London. Supporting tech and life science companies.
London, England
Joined November 2020
Another record-breaking stretch at @synthesiaIO: - Crossed $100m ARR in early April 2025 - Doubled revenue YoY (Growth accelerated to 100% from 80% at Series D) - Hit 142% NRR (up from 119% a year ago) - Quadrupled our $100K+ customer base in 12 months - Trusted by +80% of
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Well worth a listen :)
So privileged to have watched your rise, and to have one of our weekly chats in public
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By watching many, many hours of people speaking, our latest model has learnt to replicate the tiny micro expressions and body language that humans make. If their script is sad they’ll look and sound sad. If they’re excited they look upbeat and energetic.
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Congrats to the @deepset_ai team on the release of Haystack 2.0! 🚀 If you want to build production-ready Python LLM apps with a stable, transparent, customizable framework, check out the details here:
haystack.deepset.ai
Meet Haystack 2.0, a more flexible, customizable LLM framework
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Hear directly from our investors @HarryStebbings (@20vcFund ), @vidushanmug (@GVteam ), @20SALES_vc , @mattjackrob, @ttunguz (@Theoryvc) why they invested in https://t.co/A4ztfMyhff
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🚀 Hugely excited to be backing https://t.co/TyDpFcqVD6! Context allows LLM product builders to understand their user behaviour. We've been blown away by the progress @HenrySG and @_agamble have already made and we're delighted to be supporting them in the journey ahead 💪
I’m excited to share that https://t.co/bU8qyHBgoX has raised $3.5M to build product analytics for LLMs and help businesses build better AI products. The raise was led by @GVteam and @ttunguz and you can read more in TechCrunch here https://t.co/tAtW4e3p6H
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🚀 Excited to continue supporting this incredible team @deepset_ai has been deep in the LLM space for years, building a platform for enterprises to bring LLMs to life in real world settings It's been inspiring to watch their progress and they're just getting started 💪
🚀🚀!Breaking News! We 're excited to announce that we just raised $30M in our latest round let by @balderton Capital with the participation of existing investors @GVteam (Google Ventures), Harpoon, System. One, and Lunar. Read the announcement here https://t.co/Z03LeTJ9VB
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📺 At @VivaTech 2023, @deepset_ai co-founder @rusic_milos chatted with GV partner @vidushanmug about scaling an #AI startup against the odds and Deepset’s vision to accelerate natural language processing for enterprises—
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Welcome to the portfolio, @PushSecurity, @ajaybateman, @metall0id, and @jacques_sec 🎉 GV’s @karimfaris and @vidushanmug share more about Push’s approach to help enterprises scale SaaS security —
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One effect of the significant shift to cloud computing is the “shadow IT” phenomenon: individual users and teams subscribe to a host of SaaS tools that don’t go through the enterprise IT budget — nor...
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“We felt it was the right time because we had a strong hypothesis around how NLP technology would develop.” Co-founder @rusic_milos shares how @deepset_ai is building a semantic layer for the modern tech stack in conversation with GV’s @vidushanmug — https://t.co/vRVWHllIyX
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Welcome Luna - it's going to be fun :)
GV’s mission is to support innovative startup founders across the U.S. & Europe. Today, we’re thrilled to announce Luna Schmid as our newest investment partner in London, joining GV’s @thulme and @vidushanmug. Read more in @TechCrunch —
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Another amazing example of a generative pipeline built with @OpenAI GPT3 and #Haystack - by @lars_baunwall from @LEGO_Group to enable search over their engineering. https://t.co/qINA4H7Oiw - leave him a star! #nlp #llm
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Principal Software Architect. Doing open source whenever time allows. - larsbaunwall
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Awesome work by @deepset_ai at the cutting edge of LLMs. Excited to see the applications built with this!
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Hugely excited to be leading @deepset_ai 's Series A. @rusic_milos talk about all things NLP and the launch of deepset Cloud:
Welcome to the portfolio, @deepset_ai🎉 GV’s @vidushanmug talks with Deepset CEO @rusic_milos about creating an open source framework that empowers developers to build NLP applications —
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What a great ad. Like everything @synthesiaIO does, takes powerful tech and packages it in a beautifully simple way 👏👏👏
Our first real Synthesia ad 🤯 Time to make your own AI avatar and get rid of those steaming piles of text... 📝 Finally able to explain to my grandma what this AI Video stuff is all about. Huge! 👏 https://t.co/4ls0mXQl2o
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I’m excited to share that @nothing has raised $70M in Series B financing led by @eqtventures and @CVenturesfund, with participation from @GVteam and others. Growing up as a huge tech fan, I’m proud to be contributing to the industry that once inspired me so much. 🧵👇
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Genesis raises $200M in Tiger-led round to grow its finance-focused low-code application platform https://t.co/w6oynNajoj by @bayareawriter
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Congratulations to the whole @Scandit team. Amazing to witness the incredible progress to date and excited to welcome @warburgpincus for the journey ahead :)
We’re delighted to announce a $150m Series D funding led by @WarburgPincus at a company valuation in excess of $1bn, to accelerate the development of tomorrow’s smart data capture technologies and transform traditional industries. 🚀 #smartdatacapture
https://t.co/qg8LPWFqNT
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🎉 We’re excited to announce that we've raised $312m in a Series G funding round with new investors @PermiraNews & @BlackRock_UK Private Equity Partners We're expanding our footprint in the #OpenBanking space and are on a mission to become the world’s leading bank pay network 🦄
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Congrats to the whole @Currencycloud team - it's been a privilege working with you over the past few years. An incredible journey so far and excited to see what comes next!
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