JB

Jay Boddu

Managing Director at Boddu Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2019 - Current

    Early stage venture investor and advisor. Sample investments include: Fortanix (www.fortanix.com): Seed investment; Other investors include Foundation Capital, Neotribe Ventures, Intel Capital; Raised $90M Series C in Sept 2022 led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity Fiddler Labs (www.fiddler.ai): Seed Investment; Other investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Bloomberg Beta; Raised $32M Series B in June 2021. ShiftRight (www.shiftright.ai): Seed capital; Acquired by Zscalar (ticker: ZS)

  • Vice President (New Products)

    2010 - 2019

  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science

    2017 - 2018

    Focused on re-imagining the world using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, especially Deep Neural Networks (DNN) such as CNNs and DNNs

  • Board Observer

    2010 - 2011

  • Founder & CEO

    2009 - 2010

  • Kauffman Venture Fellow & Venture Partner

    2007 - 2009

  • Product Management (Security Platforms)

    2006 - 2007

  • Product Management (Enterprise Networking)

    2002 - 2006

  • Engineering

    1999 - 2002

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