Darren Kimura

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#startups | Investor | Operator @ AI Squared
About Darren Kimura

I help category creating tech start-up companies rapidly grow and scale. My journey began as a Founder/CEO, where I scaled two companies from inception to exit. Transitioning to venture capital, I invested in 18 early-stage technology firms, later stepping into the CEO role at one of our portfolio companies to guide its successful exit. Today, I focus on being both an operator to accelerate startups and investor in the most promising startups.Career Achievements: -Value Creation: Surpassed $1.1 billion in total enterprise value created-Capital Formation: Raised over $350 million in start-up and growth equity and over $150 million in debt financing -M&A: Acquired and integrated 8 companies-Sales: Led the acquisition of over $1 billion in revenue-Strategic Alliances: Created and managed recurring revenue engagements with 30 Global 2000 companies-Product Management: Managed 14 product lines from ideation to commercialization-Technical: Inventor on 13 patentsConnect with me: Twitter: http://twitter.com/darrentkimuraFacebook: http://facebook.com/darrenkimura/Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Kimura

Darren Kimura's Current Company Details
AI Squared

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Darren Kimura Work Experience Details
  • Ai Squared
    President And Chief Operating Officer
    Ai Squared Oct 2024 - Present
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Founded in 2021, AI Squared is committed to achieving our vision of fostering widespread AI adoption by embedding AI-generated insights directly into mission-critical business applications and everyday workflows. For more information, please visit www.squared.ai.
  • Sway Capital
    Partner
    Sway Capital Mar 2020 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    At Sway Capital, we're transforming capital into catalysts and investing in tomorrow's breakthroughs. As a global platform for alternative investments, we're harnessing entrepreneurial innovation and institutional expertise to build a new paradigm in asset management.Our multi-strategy approach spans private equity, private credit, impact, media and advisory. From our venture studio to growth equity investments, we're not just funders – we're partners in industry transformation and category creation.
  • Enerdigm Ventures
    Partner
    Enerdigm Ventures Nov 2007 - Present
    Palo Alto, Us
    Enerdigm Ventures is an early stage venture investor. We bring domain and operating experience to help our companies scale quickly and efficiently. Our focus areas include Sustainability, Clean Energy, SaaS, Cybersecurity, IT Infrastructure, Big Data and the Internet of Things. Present:- SlashNext - Next generation Phishing Protection - (Board Director)- Modare - Technologies to help non-profits - Plan9 - RPA Marcom Systems Automation- NetFoundry - Zero Trust securityPast:- Niagara Networks - IT Network Analytics- Kachina - Energy services consulting- In2lytics - IoT Time Series Database technology- XcelaStream - Virtual Desktop Acceleration- Blue Planet Energy - Lithium Ion Battery technology- Spin.ai - Back-up, Recovery and Ransomware Protection for G-Suite- LiveAction - Software Defined Network Visualization and Management- FormaVision - Formulaic video for collaboration (Chairman of the Board) For more information visit www.enerdigm.com
  • Margo
    Steering Committee Member
    Margo May 2023 - Sep 2024
    Margo is a Linux Foundation open-source project focused on creating open standards for interoperability at the edge for industrial automation environments.
  • Zededa
    President And Chief Operating Officer
    Zededa Apr 2021 - Sep 2024
    San Jose, California, Us
    ZEDEDA is the leader in Edge Computing Virtualization, Management and Orchestration. We developed EVE-OS aka the "Edge Virtualization Engine" an open sourced operating system in the Linux Foundation and the ZEDEDA Cloud a cloud based orchestrator. Our platform simplifies the development, orchestration and security of cloud-native applications on any edge computing server hardware and supports Docker, Kubernetes, and VMs, enabling maximum flexibility and eliminating vendor lock-in. Venture backed by Smith Point Capital, Coast Range Capital, Lux Capital, Alpha Wave Global, LDV Partners, Almaz Capital, Hillman, Porsche Ventures, Juniper, Rockwell Automation, Samsung, EDF, Chevron, Emerson Ventures, Forward Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Energize Capital and others. We have raised over $150 million. We were recently named as a Top 10 Coolest Edge Computing Startup by CRN and Cool Vendor by Gartner. We are based in Silicon Valley and have offices in Pune and Bangalore India and Berlin, Germany. At ZEDEDA was responsible for Product Management, all Go-To-Market including Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, General and Administrative including Finance, Legal, People, Compliance, and Corporate Development. For more information visit www.zededa.com.
  • Spin Technology
    Executive Chairman, Chief Revenue Officer And President
    Spin Technology Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Spin Technology offers a cloud based, SaaS backup suite for Google G Suite and Microsoft Office 365. Spin's technology features API based file backups and version control for mail, contacts, calendars and file share (Google Drive, Shared Drives or OneDrive, SharePoint). Additionally, for G-Suite, Spin has API based 3rd party Application and Chrome extension review capabilities to identify product risks or compliance gaps and detect and stop anomalies like Ransomware attacks. Spin was named to the 2021 Top 5 List for Microsoft 365 Back-ups by DCIG. At Spin, I was an investor and served as President, Chairman of the Board and Chief Revenue Officer. I was operationally responsible for all go-to-market and administrative functions including Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Finance, Human Resources and Legal.Spin was exited to Blueprint Equity.
  • Liveaction - Network Performance Management
    President And Chief Executive Officer
    Liveaction - Network Performance Management Oct 2012 - Feb 2020
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    LiveAction features "LiveNX" which is a visibility and analytics platform for Software Defined Networking, "LiveSP" which is a network monitoring platform for Global Service Providers, “LiveCapture” a packet capture system, “LiveWire” for deep packet inspection and “Omnipeek” the World's top commercial protocol analysis software. I was the first outside investor and led the creation of LiveAction, Inc., as we spun-out the technology from the U.S. Department of Defense. From 2012, I served on the Board of Directors, initially as its Executive Chairman. In 2014 I led our Series A from Cisco and Sway Ventures and became the company's CEO and President. I served as President & Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director until Feb 2020.Over my time at LiveAction I was responsible for all fundraising, Corporate Strategy, M&As, Investments, Product Strategy, Analyst Relations, Technology Alliances, Finance, Business Operations, Revenue, Marketing and Sales. Together with the M&A team, we acquired and integrated Traverse to expand our network data platform, LivingObjects of France to create our Service Provider offering, and Wild Packets / Savvius to become our advanced data capture, analytics and AI platform.LiveAction was acquired by BlueCat.
  • Solar Power Technology
    President And Chief Executive Officer
    Solar Power Technology Apr 2006 - May 2012
    Belmont, Ca, Us
    Sopogy pioneered Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) for the distributed generation market in the segment known as "MicroCSP". Our technologies were installed in over 70 projects in 27 countries globally and our manufacturing was located in China, India, the UAE, Taiwan and the Philippines. Sopogy's investors included Mitsui, SunEdison, 3M, Sempra, Cargill, BlackRiver, Kleiner Perkins, Avista, Enerdigm, and TW Capital. Across the company's life-cycle I served in various roles including Investor, President & Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Under the MEMC Group (SunEdison) I served as Chief Global Strategist and as a technology consultant to Hitachi.Our solar project development BU was acquired by MEMC/SunEdison (NYSE:MEMC). The solar operations group was acquired by Sunpower (NASDAQ: SPWR) and the software and technology group was acquired by Hitachi (TYO: 6501)
  • Energy Industries Corporation
    President And Chief Executive Officer
    Energy Industries Corporation Jan 1994 - Apr 2006
    Honolulu, Hawaii, Us
    Energy Industries (EI) was created in 1994 as a consulting engineering firm focusing on energy efficiency, HVAC, Building Automation, IoT, on-site generation, Demand Side Management and Energy Services (ESCO).EI's verticals include hospitality, health care, manufacturing and commercial office buildings. Our systems solve energy problems by reducing energy costs with building automation, solar, lighting and building mechanical systems including motors, pumps, drives, boilers and chillers. Among many notable projects, we designed and implemented the world's first utility owned and customer cited combined heat and power system and the first fuel cells for the US DOD.Our offices are located in Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Boise, Salt Lake City, Chicago, New York, Houston, San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines. EIC acquired Energy Conservation Hawaii, eControls, Pacific Energy Services, Quantum Lighting, Quantum Energy and Distributed Energy. EIC was recognized as the only Hawaiian Electric "Trade Ally of the Year" and received 12 energy efficiency awards from PG&E. EI was acquired by VWI Capital.

Darren Kimura Education Details

  • Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
  • University Of Hawaii At Manoa
    University Of Hawaii At Manoa
  • Portland State University
    Portland State University

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