VK

Venky Karnam

Shift Left Ventures | former Afore Capital

San Francisco, California

VC
Investor

Invests in

Stages:

Pre-seed

Locations:

SF

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $250,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $250,000.00

Education

Investments

ShoprTV

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Method Financial

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $22M

Gamma.AI

Seed

Total Funding:

Meesho

Series A

Total Funding: $1B

Work Experience

Shift Left Ventures

2023

  • General Partner

    2023

Afore Capital

2017 - 2022

  • Venture Partner

    2017 - 2022

    Afore Capital is a $300 million fund to support product-oriented founders at the very earliest stage (pre-seed).

Various

2010 - 2018

  • Angel Investor

    2010 - 2018

    FamPay (YC S19) Basis (YC S19) Groww.in (YC W18) Meesho (YC W17) Iterable

Google

2010 - 2017

  • Ads Infrastructure

    2010 - 2017

    - Integrated AdMob into AdWords and AdSense.

AdMob

2006 - 2010

  • Infrastructure

    2006 - 2010

    - Early hire. - AdMob grew from $1M -> $100M ARR - Acquired by Google for $750M

Yahoo

2005 - 2006

  • Shopping Search

    2005 - 2006