Shri Ganeshram
Founder of Awning
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2025 - Current
Thought to text.
Chief Executive Officer
2025
Seed Investor
2014 - 2024
I led Eaze's first round at inception and joined the team full time.
Founder / SVP Engineering & Product / VP Growth
2015 - 2019
I grew and led the 50+ person Product, Growth, and Engineering teams at Eaze (encompasses Product, Engineering, Analytics, and IT). Grew from $0 to $250M revenue/year.
Eaze is an online marketplace and technology platform that helps provide legal access to cannabis through safe and convenient delivery.
Raised $212,500,000.00 from DCM Ventures, FJ Labs and Rose Capital.
CTO -> CEO / Founder
2019 - 2024
Acquired, April 2024. Founder, CTO (until summer 2021), then Founder, CEO & CTO (summer 2021 - April 2024).
Advisor
2022 - 2023
Mortgage as a service platform.
Building the mortgage-as-a-service infrastructure platform
Raised $8,500,000.00 from Citi Ventures and Citi SPRINT.
Seed Investor
2015 - 2023
Seed. AI Medical Practices.
Seed Investor
2014 - 2023
Seed. Compliance as a service.
Empowering developers to focus on ideas, not infrastructure
Raised $12,120,000.00 from Tamarind Hill, Maverick Ventures, Western Technology Investment and Thrive Capital.
Seed Investor
2014 - 2023
Seed. AI powered security audits.
Conveyor is a SaaS platform helping companies speed through their customer security reviews (with a little help from AI)
Raised $19,000,000.00 from Cervin Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
Managing Partner & Founder
2013 - 2023
Fresh VC is a micro VC fund started by Shri Ganeshram and Brian Sheng. Fresh VC primarily invests in seed stage technology startups. The Fresh VC portfolio includes high growth companies like Eaze, Fiscal Note, Radar, Akido Labs, Eight Sleep, and Aptible.
Fresh VC is a micro VC fund started by Shri Ganeshram and Brian Sheng.
Seed Investor
2013 - 2023
Seed. Contactless checkout used by top stores worldwide.
RADAR is an RFID and computer vision platform that automates inventory management, analytics, and checkout in physical stores.
Raised $89,401,385.00 from Beanstalk Ventures, Pathfinder, Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, Novel TMT Ventures, The Ferrante Group, Future Archives Unlimited, LLC, NTT DoCoMo and Align Ventures.