Vidu Shanmugarajah

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  Scaling Europe · 30 Jan 2026 · 20 min

  Vidu Shanmugarajah, GP at Google Ventures, on backing Synthesia from Series B to a $200m Series E

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  About this episode

  Synthesia has announced a $200m Series E at a $4bn valuation led by Google Ventures. Vidu Shanmugarajah has backed the company since before ChatGPT and the AI boom. I spoke with him about the team’s early foresight, how they navigated both opportunity and challenge as AI took off, and what built… More on the show's page

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