{
  "id": 10428105,
  "title": "This Early Groq Investor Expects Half Her Bets To Fail",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/this-early-groq-investor-expects-half-her-bets-to-fail",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-28T11:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Crunchbase News",
    "slug": "crunchbase-news",
    "url": "https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/early-groq-ai-investor-qa-venkatachalam-axiom/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Sandhya Venkatachalam, a successful investor and founder, talks about her investment strategy and her early experience with Groq. Venkatachalam invested at Khosla Ventures before starting Axiom Partners, a fund that supports startups using AI in various industries. She takes inspiration from Vinod Khosla's open view of founder backgrounds and focuses on accepting that many bets won't work out while aiming for the outliers. Axiom Partners evaluates startups based on their potential to benefit broader populations and deliver tangible results, rather than conventional enterprise software tools.",
  "summary": "In an interview with Crunchbase News, Sandhya Venkatachalam, founder and managing partner of Axiom Partners, discusses why she looks beyond familiar founder profiles, what makes an AI company durable, and how an early investment in Groq shaped her approach.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}