Aarthi Ramamurthy launches Schema Ventures with $20 Mn fund

Aarthi Ramamurthy has launched her venture capital firm, Schema Ventures, with a $20 million fund.

According to her posts on LinkedIn and X, the fund will support early-stage startups founded by "exceptional outsider founders." Ramamurthy previously built two startups herself.

Schema Ventures will focus on the earliest stages of companies across sectors such as industrial software, robotics and intelligence for factories, construction and logistics, workflow intelligence, and developer tools.

Ramamurthy, who has led product and tech teams at Microsoft, Netflix, and Meta, said the fund aims to back founders building from lived experience rather than "pedigree or proximity."

In 2020, she launched a Clubhouse show with her husband, Sriram Krishnan—former Andreessen Horowitz general partner and current White House senior AI policy advisor. The show, titled The Good Time Show, featured organic conversations about startups, venture capital, and cryptocurrencies, with high-profile guests like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

The show later transitioned to YouTube and evolved into The Aarthi and Sriram Show, which secured a podcast deal with iHeartMedia and surpassed one million downloads by early 2023.