Before Junglee and Amazon, Shriram was a member of the Netscape executive team, joining them in 1994, before they shipped products or posted revenue.

[4] Shriram holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Loyola College, Chennai, University of Madras.

[6] Shriram started Sherpalo, a venture capital firm that invests in promising new disruptive technologies, in January 2000.

[6][8] They have also funded $57 million to establish Shriram Center for Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.

[6] They have two daughters, Jhanvi and Ketaki, graduates of Stanford University and founders of Palo Alto–based AI startup Krikey.