{"id":841070,"date":"2024-08-05T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=841070"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:05:05","slug":"together-fund-ropes-in-former-google-twitter-executive-to-focus-on-ai-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/05\/together-fund-ropes-in-former-google-twitter-executive-to-focus-on-ai-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Together Fund ropes in former Google, Twitter executive to focus on AI investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital firm Together Fund has appointed former vice president of search at Google, Lakshmi Shankar as a general partner to head its San Francisco office. The fund said Shankar will focus on early-stage investments in artificial intelligence (AI) startups in the US-India corridor.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment reinforces Together Fund&#8217;s commitment to software-as-a-service (SaaS), AI, and building a robust US-India bridge, Together Fund said in a statement. The VC firm, was founded by Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham and Eka Software founder Manav Garg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital firm Together Fund has appointed former vice president of search at Google, Lakshmi Shankar as a general partner to head its San Francisco office. The fund said Shankar will focus on early-stage investments in artificial intelligence (AI) startups in the US-India corridor. This appointment reinforces Together Fund&#8217;s commitment to software-as-a-service (SaaS), AI, and building a robust US-India bridge, Together Fund said in a statement. The VC firm, was founded by Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham and Eka Software founder Manav Garg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}