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Ashish Kakran
Principal at Thomvest Ventures
AK
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
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.
Investor
2021
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
Seed Investor
2023
Seed Investor
2023
Investor
2021