Ranvir Gujral
Managing Partner at Sleeping Bear Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Sleeping Bear Capital is a founder-first private equity firm that seeks to acquire controlling interests in business unit spinouts, venture-backed technology companies, and e-commerce and business services companies seeking founder or investor liquidity and an infusion of new capital to reach their fullest potential.
Sleeping Bear Capital is a founder-first private equity firm that invests in orphan and aging venture-backed technology.
Chairman
2019
PHENOMENON is an ideation company that helps brands innovate, generate big ideas, improve experiences, and become part of popular culture.
Chairman
2018
Co-Founder, CEO
2011 - 2018
Chute is an enterprise software company and the leading provider of visual marketing and user-generated content software solutions in the travel, eCommerce, and CPG verticals. Some of our hospitality and tourism customers include Disney Parks & Resorts, The Ritz-Carlton, Wyndham, Japan, Costa Rica, Michigan, NYC, and San Francisco. Other customers include Apple, Bose, Benefit Cosmetics, Microsoft, Allianz, and many others. Backed by $17M (through Series B) from Foundry Group, USVP, Salesforce Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and a group of fantastic angel investors. Y Combinator Winter 2012. Acquired by Ignite Technologies and ESW Capital in June 2018.
Board Member
2009 - 2014
Co-Founder
2007 - 2011
Lil'Grams provides the simplest, easiest solution for parents to organize and share their baby's memories with loved ones. Our innovative system allows parents to leverage existing tools (desktops, mobiles, gadgets) to instantly share and organize memories that are delivered to friends and family on or offline.
Co-Founder
2006 - 2010
* Grew boutique, multi-national interactive agency to profitability * Product design, strategy, marketing, and custom application development * Worked with top-tier clients, including Samsung, AOL, Hitachi, and Kimberly-Clark
President of the Board of Directors
2004 - 2007
Board President Executive Committee Finance Committee
Performing Arts Workshop is an organization that provides art programming service to community centers.
Founder & CEO
2004 - 2006
Insight empowers organizations with Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™ and services to maximize the business value of IT.
Associate
2002 - 2004
Evaluated, structured, executed, monitored and harvested investment opportunities as one of 24 investment professionals at Silver Lakes $3.5 billion technology-focused private equity fund.