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Rohan Puranik
Partner at WestWave Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Rohan Puranik is a Partner at WestWave Capital in San Francisco, California, with a background in software engineering and product management. He has successfully invested in a range of start-ups, including companies like Mesmer in a Series A round and Docyt in a Seed round, focusing on sectors like IoT, Security, and Web3/Blockchain.
Puranik's career highlights include co-founding and serving as CTO at MindSumo, advising at StartX, and holding software engineering roles at Palm and Optumsoft, Inc. He has a strong educational background with a B.S. from Stanford University and leverages his expertise in areas such as Java, Ruby on Rails, and mobile applications to drive successful investments in various tech sectors.
Work Experience
Partner
2018 - Current
WestWave Capital is an early-stage VC firm that invests in Seed and Series A Enterprise companies building deep technology solutions.
Advisor
2012
VP Strategy
2017 - 2018
Board Member
2011 - 2020
Acquired by MBO in September 2020
Co-founder & CTO
2011 - 2017
MindSumo is an open-innovation platform delivering ideas and insights to over 100 of the Fortune 500
Raised $1,000,000.00 from StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), RTA Capital, Plug and Play, Voyager Capital, Start Fund, Ulu Ventures, DCVC and Google Ventures.
Software Engineer
2009 - 2011
Software Engineer
2007 - 2009
Startup founded by Stanford Distributed Systems Prof. David Cheriton
Section Leader/TA in CS
2006 - 2009
Software Engineering Intern
2007 - 2007
Simplifying access to web video content from Internet-connected devices. Funded by Norwest Venture Partners, Matrix Partners & North Bridge Venture Partners.
Software Engineer
2006 - 2007
Acuitus provides information technology programs.
Education
B.S.
2005 - 2009