Venky Harinarayan

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Venky Harinarayan is an entrepreneur and investor.
He is currently a founding partner at Milliways Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm.
He was a founder of Junglee — a pioneering shopping search engine that was acquired by Amazon.com, a founder of Kosmix — an innovative search and categorization company that was acquired by Walmart Stores, Inc., and a founding investor in Efficient Frontier — a leading search and social media marketing company that was acquired by Adobe.
Together, these start-ups were valued at $1 billion at the time of their acquisition.
Venky has also played the role of entrepreneur in two of the most successful retailers of our times — Walmart and Amazon.com.
Most recently, at Walmart, Venky created and was head of @WalmartLabs, the innovation arm for the world's largest company.
At Amazon.com, Venky helped create the Marketplace business, that today accounts for around 40% of all the units sold.
He also invented the concept underlying Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Venky is also an active investor.
He created Cambrian Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in 2000 whose investments include Neoteris (Juniper), Aster Data (Teradata), and Yousendit.
Venky was one of the earliest investors in Facebook, investing in 2005.
Other angel investments include Lyft, Whisper, and TutorVista (Pearson).
Venky was named to the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by FastCompany in 2012 and to the "Venture Capital 100" by AlwaysOn in 2012 and is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Madras.
Venky earned his bachelor's degree from IIT Madras; master's from UCLA and PhD from Stanford University, all in computer science.

Postes actifs de Venky Harinarayan

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Rocketship VC LLC Rocketship VC LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rocketship VC invests in companies located across the globe. The firm focuses on companies operating across a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements.	Private Equity Investor	01/01/2015
Milliways Ventures Milliways Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Milliways Ventures invests in companies located in the United States. The firm targets companies operating in the fields of creating innovative and impactful technology. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements.	Fondateur	01/01/2013

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Cambrian Ventures, Inc. Cambrian Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Cambrian Ventures invests in companies located in the United States. The firm focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements.	Fondateur	01/01/2015
Jasper Design Automation, Inc. Jasper Design Automation, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides software solutions for semiconductor design, verification, and reuse, based on state-of-the-art formal technology	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	30/06/2014
Walmart Labs Walmart Labs Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Develops and provides search engine services	Fondateur	30/06/2012
Efficient Frontier, Inc. Efficient Frontier, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Provides paid search engine marketing solutions	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	30/01/2012
Kosmix Corp. Ltd.	Fondateur	01/05/2011

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Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc. Internet RetailRetail Trade Provides online retail shopping services	Retail Trade
Jasper Design Automation, Inc. Jasper Design Automation, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides software solutions for semiconductor design, verification, and reuse, based on state-of-the-art formal technology	Technology Services
Efficient Frontier, Inc. Efficient Frontier, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Provides paid search engine marketing solutions	Technology Services
Walmart Labs Walmart Labs Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Develops and provides search engine services	Technology Services
Stanford University Stanford University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Junglee Corp. Junglee Corp. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Provides shopping information over the Internet	Technology Services
University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Indian Institute of Technology Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Cambrian Ventures, Inc. Cambrian Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Cambrian Ventures invests in companies located in the United States. The firm focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements.	Finance
Milliways Ventures Milliways Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Milliways Ventures invests in companies located in the United States. The firm targets companies operating in the fields of creating innovative and impactful technology. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements.	Finance
Rocketship VC LLC Rocketship VC LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rocketship VC invests in companies located across the globe. The firm focuses on companies operating across a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for early stage capital requirements.	Finance
Kosmix Corp. Ltd.
Think & Learn Pvt Ltd. Think & Learn Pvt Ltd. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Offers online learning programs	Commercial Services