BV JAGADEESH
Venture Partner

Principal, SVQ (Inventus' Partner in fully financing Seed investments)
11 year Serial Enterpreneur
15 year Venture Angel with
40 Investments resulting in
Five 10X+ exits including 100X+ Unicorn IPO, so far
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.
BV is currently a Board member or advisor at Cohesity, InspectHOA, Monetize360, Attivo, Empinfo, HeadSpin, and Tetrate. He was a seed investor behind Nutanix (IPO), Yodlee (IPO), Ankeena (ACQ: Juniper), Arkin (ACQ: VMWare), NetMagic (ACQ: NTT), and Ocarina (ACQ: Dell).
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
InspectHOA
Monetize360
INVESTMENTS PRIOR TO INVENTUS
Nutanix (DECACORN)
Exodus (DECACORN)
Cohesity (UNICORN)
Cloud Harmonics (ACQ: IngramMicro)
NetMagic (ACQ: NTT)
Ankeena (ACQ: Juniper Networks)
Ocarina (ACQ: Dell)
Yodlee
NetScaler (ACQ: Citrix)
Arkin
Tetrate
Inhabitr
EmpInfo
Attivo
Headspin
BioFi