Arthi B
Arthi is Managing Partner at Powerscale Ventures, a venture capital firm backing AI and deep tech founders, where she manages a $100 million fund and brings 10+ years of experience in the startup ecosystem. Her focus is the point where founder-led growth has to become a repeatable system — the transition from early traction to a growth-phase company.
“She’s spent 10+ years backing AI and deep-tech founders, and manages a $100 million venture fund.”
Arthi is Managing Partner at Powerscale Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in AI and deep tech, where she works across the firm’s core focus areas: founder operating, go-to-market, and distribution. Her lens is founder-first — understanding customers, GTM motion, and the point where an early-traction company must become a growth-phase one.
Her diligence is operational before it is financial: she reads cohort behavior and account-level usage before discussing expansion, since a company’s actual commercial health becomes legible only after the early enthusiasm has cleared. In AI businesses specifically, she looks at implementation depth and account usage to judge whether a product has earned its renewal or whether early growth was novelty-dependent.
She manages a $100 million fund and brings 10+ years of experience in the startup ecosystem to the firms she works with, with particular relevance for founders navigating market expansion across the US, EU, and Southeast Asia.
- A founder-first lens on go-to-market and distribution, sharpened by evaluating the same early-traction-to-growth-phase transition across a venture portfolio.
- Operational diligence: judging a company’s health through cohort behavior and account usage, not just headline growth.
She manages a $100 million fund backing AI and deep-tech founders, and evaluates the same founder-to-team scaling transition the company is working through.