AJ

Arif Janmohamed

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Dad. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

San Francisco Bay Area

Skills

Cloud Computing
Hadoop
Big Data
Data Center
Distributed Systems
Mergers
Venture Capital
Product Management
Mergers & Acquisitions
Entrepreneurship
SaaS
Start-ups
Strategy
Business Development
Salesforce.com
Mobile Devices
Strategic Partnerships
Software as a Service (SaaS)

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2008

    Contact me at arif@lsvp.com I focus on early stage enterprise investing, with a focus on companies that are at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI. I'm currently working closely with the teams at Alif Semiconductor, Appzen, Celona, Cycognito, Moveworks, Navan, Netskope, Normalyze, PredictHQ, RedPanda, Resilience, Theta Lake, Thoughtspot, and Zocks. I was also involved in several Lightspeed investments which have had successful exits including Nutanix (IPO: NTNX), Avi Networks (acquired by VMware), Blend (IPO: BLND), Mist Systems (Acquired by Juniper), LeapYear (acquired by Snowflake), Split Software (acquired by Harness), Qubole (acquired by Idera), Highfive (acquired by Dialpad), Edgespring (acquired by Salesforce.com), Heighten (acquired by LinkedIn), Pertino Networks (acquired by Cradlepoint), IO Turbine (acquired by Fusion-io), RAPsphere (acquired by AppSense), Memoir Systems (acquired by Cisco), and StreamOnce (acquired by Jive Software).

2009

  • Founding Charter Member and Early Board Member

    2009

    The C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership and investment.

2006 - 2008

  • Manager, Corporate Business Development

    2006 - 2008

    Mergers, Acquisitions, Investments, and Strategy in Unified Communications, Collaboration and SaaS. Transaction Leadership and execution on: WebEx ($3.3B), Latigent, Securent ($100M), Postpath ($200M), Jabber

WVP Ventures

2005 - 2006

  • Founder

    2005 - 2006

    I founded, built and ran WVP Ventures while in Business School. WVP Ventures is a student-run venture capital organization, whose mission is: - to train and position Wharton students to enter the venture capital and entrepreneurial communities. - to invest in entrepreneurs and mentor them through the funding process

Novitas Capital

2005 - 2005

  • Associate

    2005 - 2005

2003 - 2004

  • Chief Technology Office

    2003 - 2004

Andes Networks

2000 - 2003

  • Product Manager / Sr. Hardware Engineer

    2000 - 2003

WebTV

1999 - 2000

  • Hardware Engineer

    1999 - 2000