Devdutt Yellurkar
Founder of Propeller
Devdutt Yellurkar
Founder of Propeller
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder & Partner
2022 - Current
Propeller operates as a climate-tech fund that invests in and builds ocean-climate companies.
General Partner
2008
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in investments in technology companies.
Board Member
2019
Met Abhinav in 2015 when he was just starting up. Postman is the collaboration hub for building, testing and deploying APIs and microservices. We stayed in touch over the next few years and in mid 2019, we led the Series B round.
Postman is a software company that offers a platform for the users to design, develop, test, and organize custom APIs.
Raised $433,000,000.00 from Gokul Rajaram, Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Sahin Boydas, CRV, Coatue, Girish Mathrubootham, Bond and Junipero Capital.
Board Member
2018
Loved the audacity of the mission and the quiet confidence and the deep technical chops of the founders. Led the seed round and then co-led their series A round in late 2018. Watch this company!
Board Member
2017
Clouds make storage and compute elastic but networking to the Cloud is still inflexible and complicated. Met Sherry late in 2016 and she showed us how Aviatrix was helping their customers make the cloud networking simple and secure. Steve Mullaney joined as CEO in 2019.
Aviatrix® is the cloud networking expert. It is on a mission to make cloud networking simple so companies stay agile.
Raised $340,800,000.00 from CrossWork.us.
Board Member
2014
Amir & Alex are repeat entrepreneurs who are building a subscription commerce platform that serves both merchants as well as consumers. Just getting started
Board Member
2013
We met Aghi and Marco when they just getting settled in San Francisco. Even then, they were talking about how software development is going to radically change and have been at the forefront of the API & Microservices wave.
Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer productivity, automating security, and microservices.
Raised $344,101,000.00 from CRV, Tiger Global Management, Notable Capital, Balderton Capital, 137 Ventures, Teachers’ Venture Growth, Index Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Board Member
2008
My first venture investment! Beerud Sheth and his team have built a mobile messaging platform that has delivers messages for the public community of 60+m consumers as well as enterprises.
GupShup develops a conversational messaging platform designed to automate business conversations.
Raised $484,130,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, White Oak Global Advisors, Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers Holdings, Harbor Spring Capital, Fidelity, Neeraj Arora, Think Investments, Malabar Investment Advisors, Tiger Global Management and Tiger Global Management.
Board Member
2019 - 2023
We met Kyle and Sam in 2017 as we were mapping out the JAMStack ecosystem. And then this happened... https://medium.com/crv-insights/the-web-re-invented-again-a3f3328c1cb9
Gatsby is a Software-as-a-service open source web development tool and framework which is customizable and extensible for any purpose.
Raised $46,800,000.00 from CRV, Index Ventures and Trinity Ventures.
Board Member
2011 - 2021
We met Thomas at Zendesk and invested in his seed round when he & his brother, Christian, decided to strike out on their own. We were impressed with the founders who have gone on to deliver a terrific product and even better business model. OneLogin delivers an enterprise-grade cloud identity service wrapped in a beautiful UI. The company was acquired by Quest Software in October 2021