JB
Jay Boddu
Managing Director at Boddu Ventures
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