Rocketship.vc
Rocketship.vc is a data-driven, generalist venture capital firm in Los Altos, California, that backs early-stage startups worldwide. It is best known for picking companies with algorithms and a vast startup database, not for water. In the Leviathan directory it holds one water company, Uravu Labs, across two deals since 2017.
Compiled by Antoine Walter, (don't) Waste Water, from official filings and direct intelligence in Leviathan.
The take
Rocketship.vc runs venture capital like a data-mining problem. Its founders, Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, sold Junglee to Amazon and Kosmix to Walmart, co-wrote a textbook on mining massive datasets, and then built a fund around the same instinct: let a model trawl a huge database of startup activity and flag the companies with what they call an Escape Velocity growth engine, often before a human ever takes the meeting.
That model points almost everywhere except water. Rocketship.vc is a generalist, spread across roughly twenty sectors and fourteen countries with a heavy India tilt, from AI software and fintech to HR tech and e-commerce. In the water category I track, it surfaces exactly once: Uravu Labs, an Indian company that pulls drinking water out of thin air. That is one water company across two deals, which is why (don't) Waste Water rates Rocketship a One-Off rather than a water investor.
For a newcomer mapping who funds water, Rocketship.vc is a useful edge case. It is the kind of deep-pocketed, sector-agnostic fund that wanders into water when its algorithm spots a breakout, then wanders back out, not a specialist that lives in the sector. If you are tracking who commits to water year after year, Rocketship belongs on the watch-list, not the core roster.
Water Commitment Score
Compiled from official filings, third-party records, and direct intelligence from investors and founders, in Leviathan · recomputed monthly · as of Jun 2026.
How they invest
Portfolio · 1 water companies
Invests alongside
Highlighted = profiled on (don't) Waste Water.
Frequently asked
- What does Rocketship.vc invest in?
- Rocketship.vc is a generalist venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups across about twenty sectors and fourteen countries, including AI software, fintech, HR tech and e-commerce. It picks companies using a proprietary startup database and growth-scoring algorithms rather than a single sector thesis.
- Is Rocketship.vc a water investor?
- No. Rocketship.vc is a sector-agnostic fund, not a water specialist. In the Leviathan water directory it holds one water company, Uravu Labs, across two deals since 2017, which is why (don't) Waste Water rates its water commitment One-Off rather than core.
- Who runs Rocketship.vc?
- Rocketship.vc was co-founded by Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, the serial entrepreneurs behind Junglee and Kosmix. Day-to-day it is led by Managing Partners Sailesh Ramakrishnan, a former NASA and Walmart Labs engineer, and Madhu Shalini Iyer, previously chief data officer at Gojek.
- Where is Rocketship.vc based?
- Rocketship.vc is headquartered in Los Altos, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and invests globally across fourteen countries with a particularly strong presence in India. Its portfolio spans the United States, India and emerging markets where its data models flag fast-growing startups.