Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Rajesh
Investments
Work Experience
2020
Partner
2020
Assisting entrepreneurs and managing investments across EV batteries, hydrogen, solar, grid storage, sustainable plastics, carbon capture, industrial chemicals, foodtech, healthcare – focusing on materials science driven innovations that have a large societal impact.
2009 - 2020
Head of Applied Ventures
2018 - 2020
Managed a portfolio of deeptech startups across 13 countries in over 85 companies. Invested in deep-tech/ hardware startups across Climatech (solar, batteries, windows ..), Semiconductors, AI, Life Sciences. Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials.
Investment Director
2015 - 2018
Investment Manager
2009 - 2015
2008 - 2009
Sr Associate
2008 - 2009
Investment focus in Cleantech and Semis. Key Investments: EnPhase energy, R2 Semiconductor
2007 - 2008
Consultant
2007 - 2008
2007 - 2007
Investment Banking
2007 - 2007
IPO on Renesola, a solar wafer materials Co. M&A transactions in Cleantech
2001 - 2006
Lead - Emerging Technologies
2001 - 2006
Drove the technical assessment of several Optical, MEMS, RF device startups and established successful partnerships with many. Led the design for reliability program for Lucent’s 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s telecommunication systems and supported the successful deployment of these systems globally.