Dinesh Katiyar
Volunteer at Briza
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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