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Karan Mehandru

Managing Director at Madrona

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Karan Mehandru is the Managing Director at Madrona, investing in companies at various stages with a focus on sectors like Security and Cloud Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area. Notable highlights include investing in companies like JumpCloud at Series F and being a board member at unstructured.io.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2023 - Current

Unstructured is an enterprise ETL tool that automatically transforms complex, unstructured data into clean, structured data for GenAI.

Raised $65,000,000.00 from IBM Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Chet Kapoor, Allison Pickens, Menlo Ventures, Mango Capital, Madrona, NVentures and The New Normal Fund.

  • Managing Director

    2022

Madrona is a venture firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

  • Board Member

    2023

Clerk develops a software application to provide a sign-up and sign-in page for any website and profile management.

Raised $84,499,976.00 from Stripe, Madrona, CRV and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Board Member

    2016

Auth0 is a cloud identity management SAAS application for the web, mobile, IoT, and internal software.

Raised $332,275,000.00 from Steadfast Capital Management and Employee Stock Option Fund.

  • Board Member

    2016

Outreach is a sales engagement platform that uses AI for predictive analytics as it relates to sales.

Raised $489,018,000.00 from Investlink Holdings, Investlink Holdings and Raison Wealth.

  • Investor

    2020

Zapier is an IT company that provides integrations for web applications for use in automated workflows.

Raised $1,362,949.00 from Steadfast Capital Management and Sequoia Capital.

  • Investor

    2015

Cohesity is a data management technology firm that offers hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, files, and analytics.

Raised $955,000,000.00 from NVIDIA and IBM.

  • Investor

    2021

Klaviyo is an automation and email platform designed to help grow businesses.

Raised $778,500,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund and Irving Investors.

  • Board Observer

    2022

Power your apps with real-time voice AI by Deepgram

Raised $85,920,000.00 from SAP.iO, Wing Venture Capital, NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, BlackRock, Citi Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Madrona, Alkeon Capital and Y Combinator.

  • Investor

    2021

JumpCloud is an open directory platform for secure, frictionless access from any device to any resource, anywhere.

Raised $416,817,501.00 from Atlassian Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Steadfast Capital Management, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, OurCrowd, Waterman Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst, H.I.G. Growth Partners, Owl Rock Capital and Sands Capital Ventures.

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