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Dinesh Katiyar

Volunteer at Briza

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Dinesh Katiyar is a Partner at Accel, with a background that includes co-founding SayNow (acquired by Google) and serving as VP of Product Management at Citrix Systems. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Katiyar has made significant contributions to the tech industry, with notable roles at companies like Motorola and Small Device, as well as investments in companies like Simility and VComply.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2011 - Current

    Focused on early-stage cross-border (India-US) investments. Investments include Akridata, Delightree, Effectiv, Entytle, Mindtickle, Prodigal, RapidCanvas, SpendFlo, vComply, Zinier Past investments include Collegefeed (acq AfterCollege), Paxata (acq DataRobot), Simility (acq PayPal), TeaPot (acq Stripe)

Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.

  • Volunteer

    2024

  • Board of Advisors

    2009

    Dekuple (previously ADLPerformance) is a publicly listed performance marketing company

  • Co-founder & Advisor

    2005 - 2011

    Acquired by Google. Voice-based group communication platform for mobile phone users.

SayNow is a free service that lets fans and celebrities connect with one another via voice and text messaging.

Raised $7,510,000.00 from Altos Ventures.

  • VP Product Management

    2009 - 2010

    Worked across wide range of virtualization and cloud products - virtual desktop management, datacenter automation, analytics and metering, virtualized rich media delivery, desktop and mobile clients, end-user experience, enterprise app stores

Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Mayfield Fund and Kleiner Perkins.

  • Co-founder & VP, Products

    2007 - 2008

    Innovative advertising solutions for local businesses using voice and web

  • CEO

    2005 - 2007

    Acquired by Digital Chocolate. Mobile applications company with ~70 employees when acquired. Operations across US and India.

  • Mobile Strategy

    2004 - 2005

    Various initiatives around Java+Linux mobile platform, next-gen mobile user interfaces, and 3G/4G IP scenarios.

Motorola exists to invent, build and deliver the best mobile devices on the planet, improving the lives of millions of people.

  • Co-founder

    2001 - 2003

    Enterprise solutions for service portfolio management - services profitability analysis for product companies

  • Founder & CEO

    1997 - 2000

    Acquired by E.piphany. Internet e-commerce company that helped online merchants cross-sell on each others' sites

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