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Menlo Park, California, Us

Valley Capital Partners is a leading early stage venture capital firm backing highly technical, mission-driven founding teams in enterprise and cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, workflow automation and artificial intelligence. We leverage our deep professional networks and decades-long company building and investment experience to help founders build and scale their businesses into world-class companies. VCP is based in Menlo Park, CA with an office in Pittsburgh, PA.

360-Degree GenAI Security, from visibility to remediation, secure organizational GenAI use while leveraging your existing security environment. VCP joined Series A investors Canaan Partners and YL Ventures.

World-class team out of Stanford and Tel Aviv building a groundbreaking software platform. Led $10M financing round.

Austin, Texas, Us

RapidCanvas powers idea to enterprise AI solution within days with a no-code AutoAI platform for business users. Led Venture Round with Accel Partners. Series A led by Sequoia Capital (Ind).

South San Francisco, California, Us

Generative AI designed for qualitative data with Beehive AI’s bespoke generative AI platform. Led Venture Round, co-investors include Sequoia Capital and a leading private equity fund.

San Jose, California, Us

Lead Series A investor. AI-Driven Unified Security Operations, powered by Open XDR. Co-investors include Highland Capital Partners, Samsung, SIG.

Santa Clara, California, Us

IPO September 2023 - NASDAQ: Yubico. Led Yubico’s $20M Series A. Co-investors include NEA, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Meritech and Bure of Sweden.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead Series A investor. ModelOp helps the world’s enterprises govern and scale their AI initiatives. Co-investors include Baird Capital, SVDC, Blue Ventures.

South Bend, Indiana, Us

Led Simba’s $25M Series A. Simba provides trusted, seamless data exchange solutions for identity management, multi-vendor data sharing, and third party data verification. Other investors include Elevate Ventures, the venture funds at the University Notre Dame and Stanford University and executives from Apple, SpaceX, KKR, Goldman Sachs, TPG, Lightspeed and NEA.

Celera designs and develops custom analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits 100x faster by harnessing the power of AI. Lead Venture Round investor. Other investors include Augment Ventures and Andy Bechtolsheim.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Airvine developed the industry’s first patented 60 GHz wireless system that exceeds the speed and rivals the reliability of existing cabling at a fraction of the deployment time and cost. Led Airvine’s Seed and Venture rounds. Co-investors include Crosslink Capital.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Lead Venture Round investor. Deploy clinical AI in weeks, not years. One-click deployment of the world’s leading clinical AI algorithms. Ferrum’s AI Orchestrator protects patient data, reduces IT costs, and accelerates the delivery of AI initiatives. Co-investors include Emerson Collective, Singtel Innov8, United Healthcare, GSR Ventures and Blumberg Capital.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Orca is redefining the traditional transplant process by developing next-generation cell therapies with the goal of providing significantly better survival rates with dramatically fewer risks. Co-investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, DCVC Bio, ND Capital, Mubadala Investment Company, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.

Menlo Park, California, Us

AI-powered robotics and AI-powered visual intelligence to simplify complex manual processes, ensure total control of operations and cut costs. Co-investors include Yamaha and deep tech funds Grit Ventures, Morpheus and Main Sequence, Australia’s premier deep tech fund.

San Francisco, California, Us

Early seed investor. Co-investors include General Atlantic, Ally Bridge, Canvas Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Hercules Capital.

Sacramento, California, Us

Venture Round investor. Co-investors include a16z and Core Innovation Capital.

San Francisco, California, Us

Series A investor. IPO January 2021 NASDAQ: AFRM. Co-investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Fidelity Investments, Spark Capital, Founders Fund, GIC, Morgan Stanley, Ribbit Capital.

San Jose, California, Us

Series A investor. IPO November 2020. NYSE: QS. Co-investors include Kleiner Perkins, Fidelity Investments, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Volkswagen, Bill Gates. I founded OnFiber with QuantumScape’s founder, Jagdeep Singh.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Acquired by PayPal. Lead Seed investor. Co-investors include Accel Partners, Trinity Capital and PayPal.

Acquired by Dell/EMC. Lead Seed investor. Co-investors include Vmware, WTI and Intel Capital.

Acquired by Dropbox. Lead Seed investor. Co-investors include Accel Partners, Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Principal founder of Nebula, a pioneer in large scale cloud computing for the Global 5000 market. Nebula was the creator of OpenStack, the world's most widely utilized open source software for compute and storage. Backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Comcast Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Highland Capital Partners, Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram, David Cheriton and others. Tech acquisition and acqui-hire by Oracle (NYSE: ORCL).

Santa Clara, California, Us

IPO June 2014. NYSE: ANET. One of very few investors invited to participate in Arista’s Series A and internal financing rounds. Prior to their IPO, Arista was primarily a founder-funded company.

New York, New York, Us

Acquired by AT&T for $1.6B

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Founded Nebula out of KPCB's offices in 2010. Worked primarily with then General Partners Matt Murphy and John Doerr.

New York, Ny, Us

Independent, non-executive Director at ConEd’s telecom business unit.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Acquired by Cisco for $630M. Investor at Seed and Series A. Co-investors include Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley and VantagePoint Capital.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Post M&A role after Qwest’s (NYSE: Q) acquisition of OnFiber.

San Jose, California, Us

IPO June 2007. NASDAQ: INFN. Seed and Series A investor. Founded OnFiber with Infinera's founders. Co-investors include Kleiner Perkins, Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, Applied Materials and GIC.

Principal founder of OnFiber, a leading nationwide optical facilities-based carrier. Backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bechtel, Bear Stearns, GE Capital, Andy Bechtolsheim and others. Acquired by Qwest (now CenturyLink).

IPO. NASDAQ: STOR. Co-investors include Greylock Partners, Summit Partners and Goldman Sachs.

Netscreen was a network security pioneer. The first in the industry to build a vertically integrated system with hardware, ASIC and software all engineered and built in-house. Original team included Feng Deng, Yan Ke and Ken Xie. IPO in 2001, acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004 for $4.6 billion.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Founded OnFiber out of KPCB's offices in 1999-2000. Worked primarily with then General Partners Vinod Khosla, Will Hearst and Doug Mackenzie. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers at the time was the top venture capital firm in the world.

Acquired by Cisco for $7B. Investor at Seed and Series A. Co-investors include Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners.

Acquired by Broadcom for $2.1B. Investor at Series A. Co-investors include Juniper Networks, Cisco, Bowman Capital, ATI.

Series A investor. IPO - NASDAQ: ISLD. Co-investors include Panorama Capital, Bay Partners, Bear Stearns.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Post M&A role after Micron's acquisition of Rendition-CoreLogic.

CoreLogic was a leader in the virtual chip (soft cores) market for RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) processors. CoreLogic designed and developed fully functional synthesizable and behavioral cores to the netlist level. Backed by Intel Capital, Mitsubishi Capital (Vysys) and an angel syndicate. Acquired by Micron (NYSE: MU).

Legato developed software for managing data storage on computer networks. The company made a IPO in 1995 and was later acquired by EMC in 2003.

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Palo Alto, California, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Cray was a pioneer in massively parallel processing supercomputers. Founded by Seymour Cray. HP acquired Cray.

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Education record

Non-Degree Certificate, Business Administration, Finance And General Management