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Arif Janmohamed

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Arif Janmohamed is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, with a strong background in cloud computing, big data, and venture capital. He has invested in a variety of successful companies at different stages, including ThoughtSpot at Series F and Resilience Cyber Risk Solution at Series D. Arif's career highlights include being a founding charter member and early board member at C100, as well as investing in companies like Theta Lake at Series B and CyCognito at Series C.

Work Experience 

LV

Lightspeed Venture Partners

  • 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).

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

lsvp.com
C

C100

  • 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.

CS

Cisco Systems

  • 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

Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.

developer.cisco.com

WVP Ventures

  • 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

Novitas Capital

  • Associate

    2005 - 2005

SM

Sun Microsystems

  • Chief Technology Office

    2003 - 2004

Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.

Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.

sun.com

Andes Networks

  • Product Manager / Sr. Hardware Engineer

    2000 - 2003

WebTV

  • Hardware Engineer

    1999 - 2000

Education 

Investments 

Zocks

Seed

Total funding: $6M

Resilience Cyber Risk Solution

Series D

Total funding: $180M

Endor Labs

Seed

Total funding: $95M

Redpanda Data

Seed

Total funding: $170M

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