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Pradip Madan

Managing Partner at Great North Ventures

Los Altos, California

Overview 

Pradip Madan is the Managing Partner at Great North Ventures in Los Altos, California, with a background in executive leadership roles at companies like SYNNEX and Microland. He has a strong track record of successful investments in various sectors, including Human Capital/HRTech and FinTech, and has provided advisory support to companies like Cognito Networks and Applied Spectra, Inc. Madan's career highlights include serving as President at Microland and Rivio, as well as holding the position of SVP Corporate Strategy at SYNNEX. He has made impactful investments in companies like Soiltech Wireless and Nativex, showcasing his expertise in strategic partnerships and business development.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2017 - Current

    Fundraising with LPs, investee due diligence, post-investment advisory support.

  • Advisor

    2015

    IoT for a smarter enterprise - integrating people and processes based on business and operating policies.

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2017

    Data sciences & analytics based consulting.

Virtue Analytics provides cloud-based machine learning-enabled end to end platform.

  • Advisor

    2014 - 2016

    Internet of Things (IoT) pioneer. Present focus: intelligent lighting systems, IoT platform and components.

Lumewave is a provider of wireless outdoor lighting control systems.

  • Advisor

    2007 - 2015

    World-class scientific team providing laser-ablation and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instruments and services.

  • SVP Corporate Strategy

    2006 - 2012

    Leading BPO/IT distribution company (public, ~Fortune 150). Led M&A, strategic planning.

  • President

    2003 - 2006

    Global managed services provider for several large enterprise customers. Privately-held.

  • President

    2002 - 2003

    Pioneer in event registration and membership management. Sold to Jonas Software.

Association Management Software and Event Registration Solutions.

  • CEO, COO, Co-founder

    1998 - 2002

    Pioneered SaaS SMB workflow apps. Sold to CPA2Biz at ~$125M valuation.

  • VP Corporate Marketing

    1997 - 1998

    Storage connectivity (SCSI) industry leader.

Adaptec - Data Storage provides trusted storage solutions that reliably move, manage, and protect critical data and digital content.

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