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Sumanth Channabasappa

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Denver Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Founding President

    2015

    Boutique management and tech consulting firm that advises and partners with scale-ups and enterprise CXOs for rapid growth. ✓ Assembled this multi-disciplinary team, managed P&L, and provided oversight. ✓ Engaging with CXOs for rapid scale: both scale-ups (1-10M in ARR) and enterprise innovation portfolios; for: G2M strategies, execution strategy and biz growth. ✓ Augmenting leadership in B2B SaaS companies to leverage business model innovations, and emerging tech (e.g., AI) for rapid scale.

  • Venture Partner | Deal Flow Lead

    2017

    Growth-stage investor in startups with $1-10M net ARR. Portfolio of 20+ investments. See: https://www.3lines.vc/#portfolio ✓ Created deal flow to screen 800+ startups per year. ✓ Lead deal-screening, resulting in Series A/B lead/co-lead/follow-on investments. ✓ LP (investor) in the fund. Focus: enterprise SaaS in edtech, digital health, fintech, etc.; leveraging tech innovations and advancements in AI, cybersecurity, web3 technologies (outside of Crypto) etc.

2021 - 2023

  • Chief Strategy & Technology Officer

    2022 - 2023

    B2B SaaS: High-impact immersive caregiver training used by over 75 large medical centers, key universities, and State Departments of Human Services, senior services, etc. ✓ Led strategy for rapid growth, via revised business models, partnerships, and innovation via technology advancements for differentiation.

  • Executive Advisor // Strategy & Technology

    2021 - 2021

2020 - 2022

  • Executive Advisor

    2022 - 2022

    ✓ Mentored follow-on CEO and leadership team.

  • CEO, Product & Tech

    2020 - 2022

    B2B SaaS: Highly scalable risk management platform for events, media studios & academia. ✓ Led rapid scale (2M+ users in the first year) while competing with established companies. ✓ Managed P&L, resources, product, sales, marketing and partnerships.

  • Chief Architect, Office of the CTO

    2016 - 2020

    Applied R&D organization funded by major healthcare providers to create secure and interoperable products and services. Developed operating layer to significantly enhance interoperability and risk management for medical devices, to prevent over 250K yearly deaths in the US due to avoidable errors, while significantly reducing deployment costs. Key accomplishments: ✓ Swift launch of a cloud-based trust platform in collaboration with the CDC and over 75 hospitals across 17 states within four months, enhancing staff safety & supply chain resilience during the pandemic. ✓ Created interoperable specifications to increase interoperability, provide threat resilience (e.g., against WannaCry) and significant CapEx/OpEx savings. ✓ Demonstrated solutions to save lives concerning sepsis surveillance (affecting over 1.5 million US adults/year with over 250K fatalities) and pediatric code blue situations (impacting ~ 4K US children/year with a 27-38% survival rate).

2015 - 2017

  • Co-founder, CPO & CTO

    2015 - 2017

    B2B SaaS startup that built tech solutions for the blind/visually-impaired (BVI) to safely explore indoor/outdoor areas. FYI, BVI community: ~23mi(U.S.)/~285mi(global) I was a co-founder and investor, inspired by personal connections (parent, co-founder.) ✓ Designed and product managed a safe exploration platform (indoors & outdoors) for BVI users. ✓ Hired and managed engineers to build the API-based platform, visual and data analytics components, and partnered with BVI users for lab & live testing. ✓ Partnership development with industry and academia. Based on technology & market analyses, transitioned assets to Blind Institute of Technology (non-profit) & partners.

2004 - 2015

  • Director, Innovation | Network Technologies

    2013 - 2015

    CableLabs is creating technologies used by 500mi+ subscribers in 80+ countries; market impact $450B+. [As a report to the SVP of Network Technologies.] ✓ Established and program managed a technology pipeline, each with potential for $2B+ annual revenues; partnered with engineering to incubate 30+ proposals in networking (cable, fiber, wireless,) cybersecurity, AR/VR, telehealth, etc. Collaborators included Senior Technical Staff, Directors, and VPs.

  • Director, Advanced Networks & Applications

    2012 - 2013

    [As a report to the SVP of Network Technologies.] In this role I led a team of senior technical experts in IPv6, cloud/virtualization, and home networks.

  • Director, Network Design & Signaling Protocols

    2010 - 2012

    [As a report to the CTO] I led a team of 30+ Directors, Principal Architects, and Senior Engineers who were technical program leads for globally deployed technologies across broadband, voice and video communications, cloud technologies, SMB offerings, content distribution networks, IoT, business services and video technologies.

  • Senior Manager

    2009 - 2010

    Reported to: Director, PacketCable. Product owner of efforts such as proactive network maintenance to enhance customer experience by remotely and precisely detecting and fixing network failures across millions of broadband users.

  • Senior Systems Architect

    2004 - 2009

    Reported to: Director, PacketCable. Drove market requirements for provisioning & security teams of multi-national experts for PacketCable VoIP, deployed in 50M+ U.S. homes and more worldwide by cable companies. Designed a RESTful IoT architecture for home security and automation in partnership with technical leaders from 15+ global companies.

2004 - 2004

  • Product & Partners

    2004 - 2004

    Product management responsibilities at Alopa Networks continued following C-Cor's acquisition. C-Cor was subsequently acquired by Arris, Inc., which was eventually acquired by Commscope.

2000 - 2004

  • Product and Partnership Management

    2000 - 2004

    Alopa was a B2B SaaS startup that built broadband, VoIP & security products (acquired by C-COR.net, which was acquired by Arris, Inc., which is now part of Commscope). Expanded and managed product portfolio to include additional products for VoIP and security, was the key technology partner for major customers in US and Europe (e.g., Comcast, Liberty Global); and, established new partnerships with 30+ global hardware/silicon providers (e.g. Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Arris, etc.)

  • Engineering & Product Management Roles

    2000 - 2002

  • Product Management & Software Engineering Roles

    1999 - 2000

  • Software Engineering

    1997 - 1998