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Ajay Sudan

Startup advisor and investor

Palo Alto, California

Investor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Product Management
Mobile Devices
Business Development
IT Strategy
Embedded Systems
Computer Security
Location Based Services
Predictive Analytics
Networking
Start-ups
Analytics
Business Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Product Development
Cloud Computing
Venture Capital
Competitive Analysis
Product Marketing
Strategy
Software Engineering

Education

Work Experience

Coda

2014

  • Angel Investor

    2014

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

2016 - 2018

  • Partner

    2016 - 2018

    Board member/observer at: Yugabyte (data infrastructure), Aqua Security (container security), Elemental Machines (enterprise IOT), Thunkable (mobile app development), ThoughtSpot (BI), and Heighten (sales productivity). Lightspeed Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed and helped build more than 200 companies globally, many of which have become market leaders, including Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, Snapchat, and The Honest Company. The Firm currently manages over $6 billion of committed capital and is currently investing out of Lightspeed XII, a $715 million fund and Lightspeed Select III, a $1.1bn fund.

Aqua Security

2017 - 2018

  • Board Observer

    2017 - 2018

YugaByte

2016 - 2018

  • Board Observer

    2016 - 2018

ThoughtSpot

2016 - 2018

  • Board Observer

    2016 - 2018

Palantir Technologies

2009 - 2015

  • General Manager

    2009 - 2015

    From 2013-2015, I grew and managed Palantir's healthcare team and was directly responsible for $100M+ in sales. Prior to that, I led Palantir's new business cultivation team, pursuing high-value greenfield opportunities across a number of commercial verticals. I began at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer working with the US Department of Defense and United States Marine Corps.

Sense Networks

2008 - 2008

  • Product Manager

    2008 - 2008

    Fifth employee at big data location-analytics startup co-founded by MIT and Columbia professors. 2009 $5.5M B-Round led by Intel Capital and Javelin Venture Partners. Product manager for Macrosense platform to enable relevant recommendation, personalization and discovery from mobile location data.

Microsoft Corporation

2004 - 2007

  • Product Manager

    2004 - 2007

    Product management, planning, and marketing for Microsoft’s enterprise architecture, development, database, and testing family of products. Developed global playbook and supported worldwide launch of new product in 60+ countries.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2002 - 2004

  • Research Assistant

    2002 - 2004

    Conducted research under the supervision of Prof. Srinivas Devadas at MIT CSAIL with a focus on computer architecture and computer security. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22ajay+sudan%22&as_ylo=1999&as_yhi=2007 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17986

Credit Suisse First Boston

2003 - 2003

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2003 - 2003

    Technology investment banking.