•
My Next Adventure
Talks about Startup, Technology and Venture Capital
AS
Ajay Sudan
Investor at Coda
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Ajay Sudan is a seasoned startup advisor and investor based in Palo Alto, California, with a strong background in product management, business development, and IT strategy. His notable career highlights include serving as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and holding a General Manager position at Palantir Technologies.
Currently, Ajay is actively involved in advising and investing in startups at various stages, with a focus on sectors such as security, data services, and cloud infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Angel Investor
2014 - Current
It's a new day for docs. Check out coda.io!
Coda is a document collaboration platform that brings data and teams together.
Raised $240,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, General Catalyst, Greylock, Alumni Ventures, Underscore VC, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Castor Ventures and Madrona.
Partner
2016 - 2018
Board member/observer at: Yugabyte (data infrastructure), Aqua Security (container security), Elemental Machines (enterprise IOT), Thunkable (mobile app development), ThoughtSpot (BI), and Heighten (sales productivity). Lightspeed Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed and helped build more than 200 companies globally, many of which have become market leaders, including Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, Snapchat, and The Honest Company. The Firm currently manages over $6 billion of committed capital and is currently investing out of Lightspeed XII, a $715 million fund and Lightspeed Select III, a $1.1bn fund.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Board Observer
2017 - 2018
Board Observer
2016 - 2018
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Raised $291,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wipro Ventures.
Board Observer
2016 - 2018
ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company. Its mission is to create a fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform.
Raised $663,700,000.00 from 2Shares and IPOSharks.
General Manager
2009 - 2015
From 2013-2015, I grew and managed Palantir's healthcare team and was directly responsible for $100M+ in sales. Prior to that, I led Palantir's new business cultivation team, pursuing high-value greenfield opportunities across a number of commercial verticals. I began at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer working with the US Department of Defense and United States Marine Corps.
Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.
Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.
Product Manager
2008 - 2008
Fifth employee at big data location-analytics startup co-founded by MIT and Columbia professors. 2009 $5.5M B-Round led by Intel Capital and Javelin Venture Partners. Product manager for Macrosense platform to enable relevant recommendation, personalization and discovery from mobile location data.
Sense Networks offers MacroSense®, a technology platform for analyzing vast amount of mobile location data.
Raised $9,000,000.00 from Intel Capital.
Product Manager
2004 - 2007
Product management, planning, and marketing for Microsoft’s enterprise architecture, development, database, and testing family of products. Developed global playbook and supported worldwide launch of new product in 60+ countries.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Research Assistant
2002 - 2004
Conducted research under the supervision of Prof. Srinivas Devadas at MIT CSAIL with a focus on computer architecture and computer security. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22ajay+sudan%22&as_ylo=1999&as_yhi=2007 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17986
Investment Banking Analyst
2003 - 2003
Technology investment banking.
Credit Suisse Group is a financial services company that advises clients in all aspects of finance.