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Sailesh Ramakrishnan

Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Sailesh Ramakrishnan is the Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc, with a background as a founder, operator, and now investor. He has successfully invested in companies like Agnikul and Yulu, focusing on sectors such as TransportationTech, Retail, and AI, among others. Sailesh's career highlights include founding LocBox, serving as Director of Engineering at @WalmartLabs, and leading various roles at Kosmix. Currently, he is actively involved in investing in startups at Rocketship.vc, specializing in Series B and Series A stages across a diverse range of sectors.

Work Experience 

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Rocketship.vc

  • Managing Partner

    2014 - Current

Rocketship.vc is an early-stage venture fund investing in companies through data science.

rocketship.vc
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LocBox

  • Founder, CTO & VP Engineering

    2011 - 2014

    (Acquired by Square)

Locbox Labs provides local businesses everything they need for marketing in an all in one solution.

Raised $5,041,000.00 from 500 Global, AngelPad, InterWest Partners, Accel, Google Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures.

locboxlabs.com
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@WalmartLabs

  • Director, Engineering

    2011 - 2011

    Working on exciting apps that combine data mining of social media and retail. We hope to revolutionize how, when, where and what you buy!

Walmart is a retail corporation that operates several chains of supermarkets, discount stores, and e-commerce platforms.

Raised $5,000,000,000.00.

walmart.com
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Kosmix

  • Director, Product Development

    2009 - 2011

  • Director, Engineering

    2007 - 2009

  • Lead, Monetization and Metrics

    2008 - 2008

  • Lead, Traffic and Monetization

    2007 - 2008

    Coordinate traffic and monetization efforts, design and develop Kosmixs' next generation traffic and monetization system, manage monthly traffic and revenue goals.

  • Monetization Lead

    2007 - 2007

    Create the monetization strategy for our products, meet and secure deals with business partners, lead the implementation of new monetization products

  • Member of technical staff

    2006 - 2007

    I have now joined this exciting new startup in the area of vertical search. Check us out at Kosmix.com.

QSS Group Inc- NASA Ames Research Center

  • Computer Scientist

    2002 - 2006

    Work on contingency planning for the Mars Rover mission.

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University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

  • Research Systems Engineer

    1996 - 2000

    Designed and Developed research software for the computer modeling of cancer. This software was made into a product with a nice GUI, user workshops etc..

Education 

Investments 

Agnikul

Series B

Total funding: $35M

Uravu Labs

Seed

Total funding: $2M

IppoPay

Pre Seed

Total funding: $2.3M

Yulu

Series A

Total funding: $4M

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