Arif Janmohamed

Partner

2008 - Current

Contact me at arif@lsvp.com I focus on early stage enterprise investing, with a focus on companies that are at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI. I'm currently working closely with the teams at Alif Semiconductor, Appzen, Celona, Cycognito, Moveworks, Navan, Netskope, Normalyze, PredictHQ, RedPanda, Resilience, Theta Lake, Thoughtspot, and Zocks. I was also involved in several Lightspeed investments which have had successful exits including Nutanix (IPO: NTNX), Avi Networks (acquired by VMware), Blend (IPO: BLND), Mist Systems (Acquired by Juniper), LeapYear (acquired by Snowflake), Split Software (acquired by Harness), Qubole (acquired by Idera), Highfive (acquired by Dialpad), Edgespring (acquired by Salesforce.com), Heighten (acquired by LinkedIn), Pertino Networks (acquired by Cradlepoint), IO Turbine (acquired by Fusion-io), RAPsphere (acquired by AppSense), Memoir Systems (acquired by Cisco), and StreamOnce (acquired by Jive Software).

Founding Charter Member and Early Board Member

2009

The C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship through mentorship, partnership and investment.

Manager, Corporate Business Development

2006 - 2008

Mergers, Acquisitions, Investments, and Strategy in Unified Communications, Collaboration and SaaS. Transaction Leadership and execution on: WebEx ($3.3B), Latigent, Securent ($100M), Postpath ($200M), Jabber

Founder

2005 - 2006

I founded, built and ran WVP Ventures while in Business School. WVP Ventures is a student-run venture capital organization, whose mission is: - to train and position Wharton students to enter the venture capital and entrepreneurial communities. - to invest in entrepreneurs and mentor them through the funding process

Associate

2005 - 2005

Chief Technology Office

2003 - 2004

Product Manager / Sr. Hardware Engineer

2000 - 2003

Hardware Engineer

1999 - 2000