BV JAGADEESH
Venture Partner
BV is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and angel Investor. A successful serial entrepreneur, BV was the Founding investor & CEO of NetScaler, pioneering the concept of Application Delivery, ultimately acquired by Citrix for $325M where BV served as Group VP and GM for Citrix’s Application Networking division. Prior to Netscaler, BV was Co-Founder & CTO of Exodus communications, pioneering the concept of cloud hosting and data centers resulting in a highly successful IPO and $30 billion market cap.
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BV is currently a Board member or advisor at Aarna Networks, Attivo, Cohesity, Empinfo, HeadSpin, Monetize360, Rexera.ai, SwingVision, TenXer Labs, and Tetrate. He was a seed investor behind Ankeena (ACQ: Juniper Networks), Arkin (ACQ: VMWare), NetMagic (ACQ: NTT), Nutanix (IPO), Ocarina (ACQ: Dell), and Yodlee (IPO).
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BV has been a Venture Angel for 15 years with 40 Investments resulting in Five 10X+ exits including 100X+ Unicorn IPO, so far.
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He’s an adjunct faculty member at the Leavey School of Business, SCU, and actively involved with non profits for the betterment of the world such as UVCE Foundation – providing scholarships to deserving students, One School At A Time – Constructs School buildings for the under privileged, Akshaya Patra – providing mid-day meals to 1.6 Million children everyday, and Boys and Girls Club of Peninsula.
INVENTUS INVESTMENTS
Aarna Networks
Monetize360
Rexera.ai
SwingVision
TenXer Labs
WALD.ai
Pinegap.ai
INVESTMENTS PRIOR TO INVENTUS
Ankeena (ACQ: Juniper Networks)
Arkin
Attivo
BioFi
Cloud Harmonics (ACQ: IngramMicro)
Cohesity (UNICORN)
EmpInfo
Exodus (DECACORN)
HeadSpin
Inhabitr
NetMagic (ACQ: NTT)
NetScaler (ACQ: Citrix)
Nutanix (DECACORN)
Ocarina (ACQ: Dell)
Tetrate
Yodlee