{"id":15333,"date":"2026-05-13T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15333\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:09:09","slug":"samsung-electronics-hires-cvc-veteran-madabushi-for-its-evergreen-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15333\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics hires CVC veteran Madabushi for its evergreen fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Raghuram Madabushi was previously a director at National Grid Partners, the strategic investment arm of energy utility National Grid.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Raghuram-Madabushi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231814\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Raghuram Madabushi has left his role as director at National Grid Partners, the strategic investment arm of energy utility National Grid, to join Samsung Catalyst Fund as investment director.<\/p>\n<p>Madabushi spent nearly six years at NGP where he invested in early-stage companies in the broad energy transition and enterprise software vertical. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, he invested in deep tech and industrial infrastructure at SRI Ventures, the corporate VC arm of SRI International, and GE Ventures, the investment arm of General Electric; managed a large portfolio of open-source technology projects at the Linux Foundation; and headed early-stage startup investing at Intellectual Ventures\u2019 Invention Development Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2013, Samsung Catalyst Fund is Samsung Electronics\u2019 evergreen multistage fund that invests in deep tech AI infrastructure. The fund invests in deep tech infrastructure and data-enabled platforms spanning AI, cloud and data centre infrastructure, networking, semiconductors, intelligent edge systems and emerging compute architectures.<\/p>\n<p>See all the recent deals by Samsung Catalyst Fund in the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalventuring.com\/corporate-backed-startup-funding-rounds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVC Funding Round Database<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/globalventuring.com\/corporate-backed-startup-funding-rounds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Samsung-catalyst-fund-deals-1024x242.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231815\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"relative z-10 w-[70px] lg:w-[150px]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                Oishani Mitra<\/p>\n<p>Oishani Mitra is the content manager for Global Corporate Venturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raghuram Madabushi was previously a director at National Grid Partners, the strategic investment arm of energy utility National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11198,1453,154,6920,127,276,11199],"class_list":{"0":"post-15333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-samsung-electronics","8":"tag-energy-and-natural-resources","9":"tag-information-technology","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-people","12":"tag-samsung","13":"tag-samsung-electronics","14":"tag-us-and-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}