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Jay Boddu

Managing Director at Boddu Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Jay Boddu is an Angel Investor with a background as a former Vice President at Juniper Networks, holding over 50 patents and having a diverse educational background from institutions like Harvard Business School and Stanford University. He currently leads Boddu Ventures as Managing Director, focusing on investing in early-stage companies in sectors such as Cloud Infrastructure and Social Networks within the San Francisco Bay Area. Highlights of Jay Boddu's career include his tenure as Vice President at Juniper Networks, where he contributed to new product development, and his role as a Kauffman Venture Fellow & Venture Partner at Sofinnova Ventures, gaining expertise in venture capital and entrepreneurship.

Work Experience 

Boddu Ventures

  • 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)

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Juniper Networks

  • Vice President (New Products)

    2010 - 2019

Juniper Networks is a networking company that markets and develops networking products for enterprise companies.

Raised $43,004,920.00 from New Enterprise Associates.

juniper.net

Stanford University

  • 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

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SeaMicro

  • Board Observer

    2010 - 2011

Megha Networks Inc

  • Founder & CEO

    2009 - 2010

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Sofinnova Ventures

  • Kauffman Venture Fellow & Venture Partner

    2007 - 2009

Sofinnova Investments specializes in seed, startup, mid, early stage, series A, first venture round, and corporate spinouts.

sofinnova.com
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Juniper Networks Inc.

  • Product Management (Security Platforms)

    2006 - 2007

  • Product Management (Enterprise Networking)

    2002 - 2006

  • Engineering

    1999 - 2002

Juniper Networks is a networking company that markets and develops networking products for enterprise companies.

Raised $43,004,920.00 from New Enterprise Associates.

juniper.net

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