Abishek Surendran

Managing Partner T2D3 Capital

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

I have 9+ yrs of venture investing experience and a total of 17+ yrs experience across investment banking and innovation management. I was one of the earliest investor in Enterprise AI space in the country and have led investments and been part of multiple boards of startup companies. The investments that I led and was on the board are - 1) Mad Street Den, 2) Yobi.ai (Lensbricks), 3) iQlect, 4) Moengage, 5) Locus.sh, 6) MarianaIQ (acquired by 8x8), 7) AbsentiaVR (Pixis.ai), 8) Customersuccessbox, 9) Transper, 10) FrontdeskAI (TrueLark). These companies cumulatively raised $300+ Mn and have a cumulative valuation of USD 2+ bn I am also a co-founders of MindGraph ( AI Services in SE Asia) and Metagraph (Cloud services focussed on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud)

Experience

  • Founder & Managing Partner at T2D3 Capital
    May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

    Investment Firm focussed on Enterprise Tech / SaaS / Deep tech investments and acquisitions. Investments include, 1) Goldsetu 2) Zapscale 3) Ethereal Machines 4) Mojocare 5) Bluecopa 6) Decentro 7) Punt partners 8) Postman 9) SpaceX 10) Groq 11) BREX 12) Varda Space Industries 13) Perplexity AI 14) Kobold Metals 15) PsiQuantum 16) OpenAI 17) Figure.ai 18) Mach Industries 19) WHOOP

  • Co-founder and Head of Acquisitions at MindGraph
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

    Rollups for IT services - 4 acquisitions so far

  • Partner at pi Ventures
    Sep 2017 - Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    pi Ventures is India's first and only Artificial Intelligence focussed early stage venture capital fund based out of Bangalore, India. We are INR 225 Cr fund and invest INR 3 Cr to INR 10 Cr per startup. The fund will focus on backing product & technology companies in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain and IoT. I am a General Partner and Member of Investment Committee.

  • Member Board Of Directors at MarianaIQ
    Jan 2017 - Aug 2017 · 8 mos

    Mariana is the targeted B2B demand generation platform that leverages Deep Learning to find and convert existing and new prospects. For more information, visit Mariana's website - https://www.marianaiq.com/

  • Member Board of Directors at YobiAI
    Oct 2015 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

    YobiAI is a video analytics platform that uses AI to distil key insights from streaming or archived video.