Ravi Mhatre serves as Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at Cloudpassage and Exabeam. Ravi is also a Co-Founder and serves as Partner and Managing Director at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors. He is also a Board Observer at Natera. His current investments include Nutanix, Appdynamics, Natera, Mulesoft, Sailpoint, Edgespring, TheFind and Kixeye. He has also served as a board member or board observer for numerous successful venture-backed companies including net.Genesis (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), Qubole, Riverbed (RVBD), Lifeminders (LFMN), Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), TutorVista (acquired by Pearson), Virsa (acquired by SAP), Waveset (acquired by Oracle), Rapsphere (acquired by Appsense), Masergy (acquired by Abry) and Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors. Ravi has also served on the Board of Directors of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Forum) in Silicon Valley, as a VC advisory board member to DeVenCI, the Department of Defense's start-up technology acquisition forum, and as a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Ravi holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Manu Kumar
Investing in PropTech • Hospitality (& Event...
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Lucid Software Inc:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Daughters of Rosie:
(early stage)
• Compound Eye:
(early stage)
• Crave.io Inc.:
(early stage)
• Traptic, Inc:
• Caarbon Corp.:
(early stage)
• Dishero, Inc.:
(early stage)
• Enuma, Inc. (formerly LocoMotive Labs, Inc.):
(early stage)
• Boomerang:
(early stage)
• LucidChart:
(early stage)
• Zimride:
(mid stage)
• Cardmunch, Inc. (acquired by LinkedIn):
(early stage)
Co's that apply tech/data/AI to cut material costs out of large, non-traditional tech industries either via "full-stack" offerings or marketplaces. Robotics. Smart SaaS. Consumer applications (viral or transactional).
Not Interested In
Trad. software w/ limited data/network effects or long sales cycles to classic IT buyers. Hardware w/o recurring revenue. Incremental improvements.
Chris Farmer is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at SignalFire. He also is an Angel Investor. He also served as Advisor at Stuph. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, software and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses. Previously, he was a Partner with General Catalyst Partners, where he led the seed program and a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, he spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, where he served as led Product Management, Finance & Business Development. Earlier in his career, he founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company. He received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.
Interested in any high-growth companies based in the state of Nebraska! I also help run an early-stage AgTech fund that invests primarily in the Midwest.
Yanai Oron
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Tel Aviv, Israel
Previous Investments
• Verbit.ai:
$11000000 (Seed Round)
• Watchful:
$4000000 (Seed Round)
• OwnBackup:
$167500000 (Later stage VC)
• Cyberhaven:
$13000000 (Later stage VC)
• Get (social ticketing platform):
$2500000 (Seed Round)
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