Arash Afrakhteh

Arash Afrakhteh Email and Phone Number

Partner at Pear VC, formerly co-founder at Cariden Technologies @ Pear VC
Arash Afrakhteh's Location
Menlo Park, California, United States, United States
Arash Afrakhteh's Contact Details
About Arash Afrakhteh

Ex founder turned VC, partnering with founders at zero to one stage on technical, PMF, engineering, product management, enterprise sales, GTM and fundraising. My areas of focus are AI/ML, Modern Data Stacks, Security and Developer tooling. Co-founded and bootstrapped a software startup to 80% market share with a successful exit. Effective in both venture-funded or self-funded startups as well as large organizations like Microsoft, Apple and Cisco.An entrepreneurial and deeply technical leader with established track record in bringing new products to market, innovating on established products, experienced in all aspects of software design and implementation.Also experienced in forming and building successful teams, mentoring and coaching, establishing culture, and forging cross-functional collaboration.

Arash Afrakhteh's Current Company Details
Pear VC

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Partner at Pear VC, formerly co-founder at Cariden Technologies
Arash Afrakhteh Work Experience Details
  • Pear Vc
    Partner
    Pear Vc Jun 2020 - Present
    Menlo Park, California, Us
    Investing in AI, Modern Data Stacks, Developer tooling, Security and cloud. Enterprise & Infrastructure.Board Director at Orby AI, Causal Labs. Board observer at quadric.io
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  • Pear Vc
    Visiting Partner
    Pear Vc Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
    Menlo Park, California, Us
    0 to 1 venture capital. We partner with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.
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  • Daffodil.Ai
    Executive Consultant To Ceos / Advisor / Angel Investor / Entrepreneur
    Daffodil.Ai 2016 - Jun 2020
    Strategic business, technical and product consulting for software startups in Cloud networking, mapping, education, enterprise and green technologies. Launched projects in Environmental (patent pending), Mapping software and education.Companies: Teeb, Taygo, Blueword.ai, Map2door, Volta NetworksLearning sabbatical through Stanford University and MIT classes in Machine Learning, Deep Learning (general, vision), Distributed and Parallel Systems, Design Thinking/ Product Design/ Design Execution/ Design Research
  • Cisco Systems
    Head Of Tech For Wan Infrastructure Sdn
    Cisco Systems Dec 2012 - Sep 2015
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Following the acquisition of Cariden, I led the WAN infrastructure SDN development known as WAN Automation Engine (WAE) as chief architect and head of tech. WAE is part of Cisco Crosswork Network Automation suite of products and is a distributed controller with northbound REST / Thrift APIs, Southbound near real time collection, analytics and modeling and many Apps including Design, Live Analytics, Optimization, Traffic Engineering and Bandwidth on Demand.
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  • Cariden Technologies
    Cto / Co-Founder / Board Of Directors
    Cariden Technologies Jan 2011 - Dec 2012
    Acquired by Cisco. Cariden was a profitable bootstrapped startup and leader in WAN infrastructure SDN and WAN Traffic Engineering and Planning. Cariden's respected MATE Suite of products was used by almost all Tier-1 Service providers, many web scale companies, Telcos and cable companies.Defined the technical direction of Cariden and its overall product architecture, primarily focusing on strategic products and technologies. Developed Cariden's SDN (Software Defined Networking) line of product called NS-OS, a clustered, almost linearly scalable and industry's first WAN Infrastructure SDN platform.
  • Cariden Technologies
    Vp Engineering / Co-Founder / Board Of Directors
    Cariden Technologies Mar 2001 - Jan 2011
    Created and lead the Cariden's engineering team from company's inception to becoming the dominant provider of WAN network planning, simulation, analytics, optimization and traffic engineering tools (Cariden's MATE Suite). Co-designed and implemented many major components of MATE. Lead engineering through more than twenty releases.
  • Kana Software
    Director Of Engineering
    Kana Software Mar 2000 - Mar 2001
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Lead the engineering team and to development Panop’s online advertising recommendation system. Panop was acquired by Broadbase/Kana and I was designated one of the key employees.
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  • Vertical Networks
    Principal Engineer
    Vertical Networks 1997 - 2000
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Designed, and implemented a run time process execution environment to achieve fault tolerance and resiliency for all the Vertical’s services. Architected and implemented remote management system (C++ and Java)
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  • Apple Computer
    Software Engineer
    Apple Computer 1994 - 1997
    Cupertino, California, Us
    Implemented many components of the port of Newton OS's Object Oriented File System for Mac OS and Windows Platforms as well as other communication components for Newton Connection Kit. (C++)
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  • Microsoft
    Software Engineer
    Microsoft 1993 - 1994
    Redmond, Washington, Us
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Arash Afrakhteh Skills

Distributed Systems Agile Methodologies Cloud Computing Architecture Architectures

Arash Afrakhteh Education Details

  • Sharif University Of Technology
    Sharif University Of Technology
    Computer Engineering
  • Amirkabir University Of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic
    Amirkabir University Of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic
    Machine Intelligence And Robotics
  • Stanford University
    Stanford University
    Computer Science

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Arash Afrakhteh attended Sharif University Of Technology, Amirkabir University Of Technology - Tehran Polytechnic, Stanford University.

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