Sumanth Channabasappa

Sumanth Channabasappa is a Venture Partner at 3Lines Venture Fund, while also serving as a Strategy and Tech Advisor at Embodied Labs and interim-CEO at SafeAccess. Over a 20-year career, he has incubated more than half a dozen for-profit and non-profit entities, contributing to global technologies and services that have generated multi-billion dollar returns. He previously served as President of The CORE, enabling corporate innovation portfolios, and has spent over a decade mentoring startups through organizations such as Techstars, the Rockies Venture Club, and the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network. At 3Lines Venture Fund, he actively supports a growing portfolio of over 20 companies, including investments in Tastry, Motiv, and Presagen. His current focus centers on scaling early-stage companies developing emerging technologies across artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, telecommunications, healthcare, and the Internet of Things.