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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

VC
Investor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $10,250,000.00

Skills

Early Stage Investment
Venture Capital
SaaS
Web Applications
Product Management
Python
MySQL
Strategy
Leadership
Agile Leadership
Early-stage Startups
C++
Java
Software Development

Education

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Based in SF

3078 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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19695 people

Work Experience

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Thomvest Ventures

2020

  • Principal

    2020

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

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Cohere

2023

  • Investor

    2023

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Isovalent

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.

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Harness

2021

  • Investor

    2021

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Opaque Systems

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.

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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.

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appCD

2024

  • Seed Investor

    2024

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Stealth Startup

2023

  • Seed Investor

    2023

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Stealth

2023

  • Seed Investor

    2023

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CyCognito

2021

  • Investor

    2021