Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital

Engineering Capital is ...venture capital for Engineers.Engineering Capital invests in technology companies, typically as the first outside investor at the seed stage. We lead and anchor the seed round aiming to form a long lasting partnership with a select set of world-class entrepreneurs - entrepreneurs who want to build category leading companies based on technical insights in large markets.



      Engineering Capital
  

Led seed round and served on Board of company transforming the Efficacy, Efficiency and Elasticity of Enterprise SOCs. Follow-on round led by Sequoia Capital.


Prismo Systems enforces 'Zero Trust with Least Privilege'​ to reintroduce fortified perimeters in a borderless age.

Prismo Zero Trust eliminates blind spots, slashes false positives, minimizes dwell time and converges the security stack.

Prismo Systems

Led seed round in Gencore - The industry’s first Content-aware Microservices Analytics. Follow-on round was led by Mayfield and the company was acquired by Nutanix in 2018.



      Netsil (formerly Gencore)
  


      Passage AI
  


      YotaScale
  

Founding investor of company still in stealth. Solving a fundamental problem in computer security.


Kentik


      Menlo Security Inc.
  

Invested in first round. Company was subsequently acquired by Splunk for $1 billion.



      SignalFx
  

Palerra is a leader in the CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) space. It was acquired by Oracle: https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/palerra/index.html


On September 18, 2016, Oracle announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Palerra, extending Oracle Identity Cloud Service with an innovative Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). The transaction has closed.

Palerra's innovative CASB product LORIC protects and assures compliance of applications, workloads and sensitive data stored across cloud services. Palerra offers a unique combination of visibility into cloud usage, data security, user behavior analytics, and security configuration, with automated incident responses. Customers can respond to cloud security incidents in real-time, protecting sensitive company data and workloads across all of the leading cloud services.

Palerra

StackStorm was acquired by Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD)


About us

  StackStorm is an emerging leader of the third wave of operations automation. Built from the ground up with DevOps in mind, StackStorm’s vision is a world of self-driving data centers that learn over time how to better operate themselves. StackStorm solutions leverage existing configuration management and monitoring solutions to deliver automation that safely ties together today's loosely coupled, heterogeneous, ever changing cloud infrastructures.

Operates as part of Brocade from March 2016

StackStorm

Led Seed investment and served on Board of Directors of this innovative security company. PrivateCore was acquired by Facebook.


About us

  PrivateCore enables enterprises to deploy servers in outsourced environments while maintaining data security.  We protect data-in-use from hackers trying to steal data such as encryption keys, certificates, intellectual property.   Enterprises need our technology because of the increasingly sophisticated threat environment, larger amounts of sensitive data in memory, and the proliferation of servers in insecure, hosted environments.

PrivateCore

Led Seed and Series A investment and served on the Board of Directors on behalf of Foundation Capital.


About us

  Azure Power (NYSE: AZRE) is a leading independent solar power producer in India with a portfolio of over 1,600 MWs across several states and union territories. With its in-house engineering, procurement and construction expertise and advanced in-house operations and maintenance capability, Azure Power provides low-cost and reliable solar power solutions to customers throughout India. It has developed, constructed and operated solar projects of varying sizes, from utility scale, rooftop to mini & micro grids, since its inception in 2008. Highlights include the construction of India’s first private utility scale solar PV power plant in 2009 and the implementation of the first MW scale rooftop project under the smart city initiative in 2013.
 
For more information, visit: www.azurepower.com


      Azure Power
  

Led the investment and served on Board of Directors on behalf of Foundation Capital in leading video infrastructure company. Freewheel was acquired by Comcast.


About us

  FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, comprised of FreeWheel Publishers, FreeWheel Markets, and FreeWheel Advertisers – empowers all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve their goals. We power the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal – results for marketers.

We partner with publishers and distributors to grow their businesses via differentiated solutions designed to break down the silos of television and digital video and generate demand. In tandem, we provide the solutions for brands and agencies to reach their audiences in unprecedented ways.

In doing so, we are ensuring the future of television. Through our open ecosystem, partnership-based approach and successful execution of our focus, television will be ready for any and all challengers. Publishers and distributors will have the solutions needed to grow their business in unprecedented ways, and brands and agencies will gain the only thing that has ever mattered – the results they need.
 
With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video. For more information please visit freewheel.tv, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

FreeWheel

About us

  100% cloud-based data protection for enterprise and SMBs. Zetta offers fast, painless, error-free recovery of business-critical data and applications  – so our customers can get back to business quickly. We were founded in 2008 by Internet pioneers dedicated to advancing innovation in the cloud and creating better data protection for the modern business. Since then, we’ve grown to more than 1,600 customers that rely on us to keep their mission-critical data safe from disaster. Our cloud-based approach lets us overcome the limitations of traditional hardware-based data protection to offer a fast, reliable solution that just works. 

Learn more at www.zetta.com


      Zetta Inc
  

Simply Hired

General Partner at a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm with ~$2.4 billion under management. Sourced 12 companies totaling over $100 million invested by Foundation Capital, and responsible for the exits by acquisition of Altor by Juniper and Sanrad by OCZ. Served on the Board of Directors of SimplyHired, Altor, Sanrad, Azure Power, Freewheel, PrivateCore, AdRise, CiiNOW, Cantaloupe and Zetta. As one of the managing partners of the firm contributed to all aspects of the firm including raising Fund VI (2008: $750 million) and Fund VII (2012: $282 million) and managing Limited Partner relationships. Planned and successfully co-led the effort to expand the firm into India including recruiting a partner and mentoring him through promotion to General Partner.
    
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About us

  These are companies that rise upward on the strongest of all foundations—the power of an idea. And as such, they are organizations that make a difference, not only in the lives of their constituents, but in the impact they have on their markets.

We should know: every partner at Foundation Capital has been an entrepreneur before coming here. We have served as CEOs, as executive managers, and as technologists with a compelling idea that ultimately resulted in real-world experience directing a company to success.

We continue to run Foundation Capital with this entrepreneurial spirit, because our true expertise is the understanding, the perspective, and the enthusiasm we bring to helping promising companies in their formative stages.

We are, quite simply, a venture capital firm where the venture matters more than the capital. Where purpose, and hard work, count.

Where people, and beliefs, matter.

Foundation Capital

Led Seed and Series A investment and served on Board of Directors on behalf of Foundation Capital. Altor pioneered firewall technology for virtualized environments and was acquired by Juniper Networks.


About us

  Altor Networks is the leading innovator and provider of virtualization security for centers and clouds. The company developed the world’s first purpose-built virtual firewall for virtual networks. Now in its fourth release, Altor’s hypervisor-based software is a comprehensive security package featuring integrated intrusion detection (IDS), VM Introspection, security automation, and compliance assessment. Recently named the RSA Conference Innovator of the Year and a Gartner Cool Vendor, Altor delivers virtualization security solutions that protect some of the world’s most demanding virtual environments, including those of media giant Nielsen Corporation and the U.S. Army Human Resources Command. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., Altor was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Check Point Software, Cisco and Oracle. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., Altor was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Check Point Software, Cisco and Oracle.

Altor Networks Inc.

At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our compute, cloud, mobility, networking and security offerings form a digital foundation that powers the apps, services and experiences that are transforming the world.

Since our founding over two decades ago, our 24,000+ employee community and ecosystem of 75,000 partners have been behind the technology innovations transforming entire industries – from banking, healthcare, and government to retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, and transportation. 

Every day, we work to solve our customers’ toughest challenges through disruptive technologies like edge computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, Kubernetes and more – to define the digital foundation that will accelerate the next wave of innovation.


      VMware
  

About us

  SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing (HPC), is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges by delivering technical computing, Big Data analytics, cloud computing, and petascale storage solutions that accelerate time to discovery, innovation, and profitability.


      Silicon Graphics
  

About us

  In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, college friends turned business partners, started the original Silicon Valley startup in the space of a rented Palo Alto garage. Starting with audio oscillators, the friends built the foundation for a company that would grow to become a global leader in enterprise technology.
 
More than 75 years later, our success is exemplified through our employees’ drive to advance ideas that bring meaningful innovations to life for our customers and partners around the globe. We are guided by our mission to help customers use technology to turn ideas into value, and empower them to transform industries, markets and lives. We simplify Hybrid IT, power the Intelligent Edge and provide the expertise to make it all happen.


      Hewlett-Packard (EDS)
  

Stanford University is one of the world's leading research universities. Stanford is known for its entrepreneurial character, drawn from the legacy of its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford, and its relationship to Silicon Valley. Research and teaching stress interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Areas of excellence range from the humanities to social sciences to engineering and the sciences. Stanford is located in California's Bay Area, one of the most intellectually dynamic and culturally diverse areas of the nation.

Stanford University

Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world.

With a faculty of more than 235 renowned professors, Wharton has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. Each year 18,000 professionals from around the world advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education’s individual, company-customized, and online programs. More than 99,000 Wharton alumni form a powerful global network of leaders who transform business every day.

The Wharton School

The University of Southern California is a leading private research university located in Los Angeles, the capital of the Pacific Rim.

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University of Southern California

The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani is a prestigious Indian university for higher education in science, technology and humanities. BITS Pilani has consistently ranked amongst the top universities in India. The acceptance rate of BITS Pilani is 1.47% making it the most selective university in India.

The primary motive of BITS is to "train young men and women able and eager to create and put into action such ideas, methods, techniques and information"​. The Institute is a dream come true of its founder late Mr G.D.Birla - an eminent industrialist, a participant in Indian freedom struggle and a close associate of the Father of Indian Nation late Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi). What started in early 1900s as a small school, blossomed into a set of colleges for higher education, ranging from the Humanities to Engineering until 1964 when all these colleges amalgamated to culminate into a unique Indian University of International standing. This university was christened as the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, known to many as BITS, Pilani.

Over the years, BITS has provided the highest quality technical education to students from all over India admitted on the basis of merit. Its graduates may be found throughout the world in all areas of engineering, science and commerce. BITS symbolizes the maturing of Indian technical ability and "can-do"​ entrepreneurial spirit, especially as derived from the private sector. BITS is located in the Vidya Vihar campus adjacent to the town of Pilani in Rajasthan.

Admission is merit-based, as assessed by the online BITSAT examination. The fully residential institute is privately supported.

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Modern School (informally Modern) is a co-educational, independent, day and boarding school in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1920 by Lala Raghubir Singh, a prominent Delhi-based businessman and philanthropist, who desired an institution that combined the "best of ancient Indian tradition with the needs of the times."​[1] It was the first private and coeducational school established in Delhi during the British Raj.[2][3] The school's first principal, Kamala Bose, was a vigorous advocate of educational reform in India.[4] Her founding vision, coupled with Lala Raghubir Singh's nationalist leanings, gave the school a liberal and indigenous character compared to British-inspired public schools, which were intended for Indian aristocracy.[5] The current principal is Dr. Vijay Datta, who succeeded Lata Vaidyanathan in 2014, and is the ninth principal of Modern School, Barakhamba Road.[6] The school motto is "Nyaymatma Balheenien Labhya,"​ which translates to "Self-realization cannot be achieved by the weak"​.[7][8]

Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital

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