Santosh Sankar is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Dynamo Ventures, the Chattanooga based pre-seed and seed fund for supply chain and the physical economy. Before Dynamo he spent five years on Wall Street in banking and equity research covering the insurance and technology sectors. An entrepreneur from an early age, he founded Razor Studios, an IT support and web development firm, at 13, and co-founded the financial media publication Bullish Bankers while at Penn State, where he earned a BS in Business and managed technology investments for the Nittany Lion Fund. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 for venture capital in 2017, became a Kauffman Fellow in 2021, and serves as a Commissioner of the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority.
Education
BS in Business, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University
Previous Experience
Banking and equity research covering insurance and technology, Wall Street (5 years)
Graduated from Penn State's Smeal College of Business, where he managed about 1 million dollars in technology investments for the student-run Nittany Lion Fund.
2016
Co-founded Dynamo in Chattanooga, launching its supply chain accelerator and 18 million dollar Fund I.
2017
Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for venture capital.
2021
Selected as a Kauffman Fellow, a two-year executive education program for venture capital leaders.
2025
Closed Dynamo's 54 million dollar Fund III alongside a secondary sale that returned capital to Fund I investors.