Kanwal Rekhi John Dougery Samir Kumar Parag Dhol
Saurabh Srivastava Prof. Rajeev Motwani B V Jagadeesh Dr. Sridhar Mitta

John Dougery
Managing Director

John co-founded Inventus and has been guiding early-stage companies as an active venture investor for the past decade.   Prior to Inventus, John led venture investments for nine years at Bank of America Venture Partners (recently renamed Scale Venture Partners).   He focuses on internet infrastructure and consumer technology investments and has backed entrepreneurs in 14 companies resulting in 9 liquidity events including two IPOs to date.   John and Kanwal have co-invested together in many start-ups since 1998, most recently along with Samir in Kaboodle, and along with USVP in Instantis.

Prior to venture capital, John built high-growth technology businesses across Silicon Valley.   He was initially responsible for channel marketing of IBM, Microsoft, and Intel product lines during the early years of the personal computer industry.   He went on to business and product line management roles in the high-performance workstation industry, initially with Sun Microsystems followed by seven years building Silicon Graphics’ new desktop workstation business into a multi-billion dollar product line through the mid-1990’s.   John has applied his industry experience to finance and guide numerous Indo-American entrepreneurs building multi-national Indo-US companies.   He has been active across the Indo-US corridor and is a Charter Member of TiE with Kanwal, Samir and Saurabh.

Education
John earned a BA from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.

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