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Ashish Kakran

VC investor in early-stage Gen AI & cloud infrastructure startups | Helping technical founders build enduring companies | Investor in Harness, Cohere, Isovalent, Opaque..

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

Sectors:

Cloud Infrastructure

San Francisco Bay Area

Locations:

San Francisco Bay Area

Min Investment:
$500,000.00
Max Investment:
$20,000,000.00
Target Investment:
$10,250,000.00

Skills

Early Stage Investment

Venture Capital

Web Applications

Product Management

Agile Leadership

Early-stage Startups

Software Development

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
(2017 - 2018)
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
(2012 - 2013)
B.Tech
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
(2005 - 2009)

Work Experience

Thomvest Ventures

2020

Principal
2020
Deals: Cohere, Harness.io, Isovalent, Unqork, CyCognito, Opaque.co, AppCD Portfolio Companies: Clari, Shiftleft, Bolster, Baffle

2023

Investor
2023

2022

Investor, observer
2022
* Acquired by Cisco * sourced the deal and attended Board meetings * Isovalent created eBPF and Cilium open-source projects. eBPF makes the kernel programmable and Cilium is used by massive enterprises to connect, secure and observer their Kubernetes clusters.

2021

Investor
2021

2022

Investor and Board Observer
2022
Opaque is the first confidential computing platform that enables secure data sharing, multi-party analytics and machine learning on encrypted data.

Carnegie Mellon University

2023

CMU TECH Advisory Board
2023
CMU's Technical Entrepreneur Coaching Hub (TECH) focuses on helping technical professionals in Silicon Valley who aspire to become technical founders.

2024

Seed Investor
2024

Stealth Startup

2023

Seed Investor
2023

2023

Seed Investor
2023

2021

Investor
2021