Ashish Kakran
Principal at Thomvest Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2020 - Current
Deals: Cohere, Harness.io, Isovalent, Unqork, CyCognito, Opaque.co, AppCD Portfolio Companies: Clari, Shiftleft, Bolster, Baffle
Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.
Investor
2023
Investor, observer
2022
* Acquired by Cisco * sourced the deal and attended Board meetings * Isovalent created eBPF and Cilium open-source projects. eBPF makes the kernel programmable and Cilium is used by massive enterprises to connect, secure and observer their Kubernetes clusters.
Isovalent builds open-source networking, service mesh, security, and observability software for modern cloud-native infrastructure
Raised $69,000,000.00 from Mirae Asset Capital, Cisco, Grafana Accelerator Program, Andreessen Horowitz, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Mango Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Google.
Investor
2021
Harness is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Raised $575,000,000.00 from Hercules Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.
Investor and Board Observer
2022
Opaque is the first confidential computing platform that enables secure data sharing, multi-party analytics and machine learning on encrypted data.
CMU TECH Advisory Board
2023
CMU's Technical Entrepreneur Coaching Hub (TECH) focuses on helping technical professionals in Silicon Valley who aspire to become technical founders.
Seed Investor
2024
Generative Infrastructure from Code
Raised $12,300,000.00 from WestWave Capital, Secure Octane, Thomvest Ventures and Firebolt Ventures.
Seed Investor
2023
Seed Investor
2023
Investor
2021
CyCognito is a leading exposure management platform that is fully-automated & highly scalable, driven to create positive business impact
Raised $153,000,000.00 from Thomvest Ventures, Harpoon, The Westly Group, Heritage Group, Dan Scheinman, Geodesic Capital, Accel, UpWest, Sorenson Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.