Invests in
Sectors:
Min Investment:
$3,000,000.00Max Investment:
$20,000,000.00Target Investment:
$15,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- TW
- Uo
- E
- Uo
Lists including Arif
Investments
Zocks
Total Funding: $6M
Resilience Cyber Risk Solution
Total Funding: $180M
Endor Labs
Total Funding: $95M
Redpanda Data
Total Funding: $170M
XFactor
Total Funding: $26M
Xembly
Total Funding: $15M
Normalyze
Total Funding: $26M
Theta Lake
Total Funding: $68M
CyCognito
Total Funding: $150M
ThoughtSpot
Total Funding: $640M
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
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
2005 - 2005
Associate
2005 - 2005
2003 - 2004
Chief Technology Office
2003 - 2004
2000 - 2003
Product Manager / Sr. Hardware Engineer
2000 - 2003
1999 - 2000
Hardware Engineer
1999 - 2000