Rajiv Khemani
Founder of Aurascape.ai
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder, President and CEO
2022 - Current
Disruptive innovation for the blockchain and AI infrastructure space, driving breakthrough scalability and sustainability. Cutting edge 4nm and 3nm-based silicon, systems and cloud solutions, engineered in the USA.
Auradine is a provider of web infrastructure solutions for blockchain, security, and privacy.
Raised $161,000,000.00 from Maverick Capital, StepStone Group, Celesta Capital, Mayfield Fund, Top Tier Capital Partners, MVP Ventures and Marathon Digital Holdings.
Co-founder & CEO
2023
Ground-up AI cybersecurity SaaS solution for the GenAI era. Essential to enable enterprises to safely adopt AI and protect against rapidly expanding attack surfaces. World class team with stellar track record in cybersecurity and AI, along with several patent-pending innovations.
Aurascape is a cybersecurity business that provides generative AI protection solutions against emerging cyber threats.
Raised $12,800,000.00 from AIspace Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Mark McLaughlin, Celesta Capital and StepStone Group.
Investor & Board roles
2021
Co-founder & Partner, AIspace Ventures (https://aispacevc.com) 2023 - Present BOD & investor, Aviz Networks (https://aviznetworks.com) 2022 - Present Advisor, Marvell Technology (MRVL), 2021-2022 Management Board Member, Stanford Business School, 2011-2015
Co-founder, President and CEO
2014 - 2021
Innovium (now part of MRVL) is a leading provider of cloud & AI optimized network switch solutions. Led the company and an outstanding team, from inception through multiple funding rounds by blue-chip investors to $100M/yr+ run-rate and acquisition by MRVL (~$1.3 billion at close). Innovium delivered the fastest cloud scale switch with lowest latency, resulting in deployments at the largest cloud providers. It became the first network silicon unicorn, achieved 100+ patents, 25+% share in cloud data-center networks and won several awards including GSA most respected private company nomination & Red Herring Global 100.
Innovium develops switching silicon solutions for cloud and edge data centers.
Raised $402,313,061.00 from Empede Capital, S-Cubed Capital, Redline Capital, BlackRock, Capricorn Partners, PremjiInvest, Qualcomm Ventures, DAG Ventures, Greylock and DFJ Growth.
COO and executive/GM roles
2003 - 2013
Cavium, a leader in network, security & mobile infrastructure, was acquired by MRVL for $6B in 2018. As part of the leadership team, helped take Cavium (Nasdaq: CAVM) from early startup stage, through significant revenue growth, profitability & IPO to a leading public company with multi-$B valuation & peak design wins of >$500M/yr. Held executive roles including COO, VP & VP/GM leading marketing, sales, engineering and operations. Drove strategy, roadmaps, customer wins and operational execution. Integrated acquisitions and managed through a variety of macro conditions. Cavium achieved 300+ OEM wins, including most blue-chip vendors across enterprise, cloud and service-provider markets, and fueled critical innovations, performance and growth of e-commerce, security, mobile and networking infrastructure.
GM and Director of Marketing
1998 - 2003
GM for network processor BU. Managed product & technical marketing, and ecosystem development for IXP portfolio. Led the business to #1 market-share. Joined via Intel's $225M acquisition of Netboost where I led business development.
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Manager, Strategy/Marketing
1996 - 1998
Managed strategy, business development and Windows/CIFS marketing. Responsible for NTAP's first acquisition and alliance with Microsoft (CIFS & network storage support for Exchange/SQLserver).
NetApp specializes in data storage, data infrastructure, and data management solutions.
Senior Product Manager
1990 - 1996
Held engineering and product management roles. Experience covered Solaris, SPARCServer, NFS/CIFS & Database areas. Responsible for Product Marketing, Solaris MP performance, Competitive analysis, Sales/SE/Channel Training.
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.