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Rohit Sharma

Partner, True Ventures

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2018

    Venture Capital

  • Venture Partner

    2012

    Working for True Founders and founders-to-be.

2011 - 2012

  • President & CEO

    2011 - 2012

    Led small team to build a recommendation engine for e-commerce. The team created a near real-time machine-learning driven platform which mined social profiles, user-interaction on site, and data-mining to deliver personalized recommendations.

2009 - 2009

  • Seed Investor, President & CEO

    2009 - 2009

    Angel invested in Stanford founding team and helped define early product direction for USA/India team. Joined as CEO for six months to lead team through Series A ($4.5MM). Vdopia is now the market leader in online video advertising (India) and an emerging high growth startup in Android/iOS video advertising (USA).

  • Principal

    2006 - 2009

    Served as one of three associates supporting 3 General Partners in IT investment sourcing, due diligence activities. Evaluated opportunities and conducted due-diligence for a variety of MDV investments in IT and LifeSciences.

2004 - 2005

  • Founder

    2004 - 2005

    Founded and led a team of five in defining virtualization for desktop (Windows) platforms. The project was a culmination of a six month EIR stint with MDV.

1997 - 2003

  • SVP and CTO - Metro Networking Group

    2002 - 2003

    SVP & CTO for all Metro Products. Member of Strategy Council led by Chairman of BoD - evaluated multiple L2/L3 switching products for potential M&A. Evaluated technologies and markets for next-gen SONET/Data switching systems.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    1997 - 2002

    Foundational IP and designs for Optical Switching applied to Metro Area Networks, CO-to-Data centers networking. Roles included Defining System-Architecture, Product Strategy, Self-healing switching systems. Founder, Chief Architect, VP of Hardware Engineering, Promoted to CTO in 2000. Venture financing raised from KPCB, MDV, Canaan, Cisco, Bowman, Chase, Fidelity, SUN, and others. Represented company at technical and trade conferences 1998-2002. IPO: June 1, 2000 Secondary Offering: November 2000 Presented at all IPO/Secondary road show meetings with CEO (Hugh Martin) & CFO. Represented company at premier Investment Banking conferences. M & A (ONI acquired Finisar product line 2001, evaluated approximately ten other opportunities). Acquisition by CIENA for $900MM in April 2002.

1992 - 1992

  • Research Scientist

    1992 - 1992

    Research Scientist - Photonics. GaAs MQW devices, Photodetectors - design and fabrication. Technical Liaison to NRC, BNR for TRLabs.