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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.

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