Sundeep Madra
Cloud, Sales and Operations at Groq
Sundeep Madra
Cloud, Sales and Operations at Groq
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Cloud, Sales and Operations
2024 - Current
Joined Groq via the acquisition of my company, Definitive Intelligence. Responsible for Cloud, Sales and Operations API services for the fastest inference engine in the world. Speed makes all the difference! https://console.groq.com
Angel Investor
2013
Personal Investor/Shareholder in: SkySQL Ohalo Genetics Notion SpaceX Swarm technologies (acquired by SpaceX) Meesho SwiftKey (acquired by Microsoft!) Groq SimSim (acquired by YouTube) Epic games Mr. Beast Industries Helpful (acquired by Shopify) Geometer Mechanical Orchard Hotstreak Felix Spatial BirdDog Palo Alto Mezmo (previously LogDNA) Big 3 Armilla AI Curbo Dream Payments Eaze RockShield Sibros Snack Hypertrack Primal.com Frame.sh Fellow Coa Sportsicon Metacask The Sandbox Game Somnium Roundtrip.ai Shopistry Odaia Build Casa Hyperloop One Royal Highline BETA Highline.vc (previously known as Extreme Startups) Glooko (investor and co-founder) Autonomic (acquired by Ford) Pivotal (via Xtreme Labs acquisition) Hatch Labs (Xtreme Labs JV with IAC / creator of Tinder) Uber (pre-IPO) Zenefits (acquired by Trinet) Arterys (acquired by Tempus) Somnoware (acquired by Resmed) Funds: Social+Capital Partnership Craft Ventures Eniac Ventures Good Capital Roach Capital VSC Ventures Time Zero Capital Firework Ventures Trust Fund More at: https://angel.co/sundeepm
Co-Founder and CEO
2021 - 2024
Generative AI Data Applications: Try it at https://definitive.io In March of 2024, Definitive was acquired by Groq
Vice President, Ford X
2018 - 2021
Joined Ford via the acquisition of my company, Autonomic Created the Ford X accelerator where we are helped the company discover, apply and incubate new businesses. Also lead the establishment of technology partnerships across the company including Ford's deals with Google and Amazon: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/ford-and-google-sign-six-year-deal-for-android-in-car-apps-cloud.html https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2019/04/23/ford-motor-company-autonomic-amazon-web-services-collaboration.html https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/01/18/ford-just-launched-a-start-up-thats-significant/
Co-Founder / Board Member
2016 - 2021
Co-Founder / CEO
2016 - 2018
Autonomic is building the first open cloud-based platform connecting and empowering tomorrow’s mobility systems. The platform aims to provide the necessary building blocks for smart mobility applications and services, and has the flexibility to meet the unique needs and challenges of cities and mobility systems around the world. #Au Autonomic was acquired by Ford in January 2018! https://medium.com/@sunny_25060/autonomic-joins-ford-to-build-the-future-of-transportation-2ea998dcbba
VP Strategy and Corporate Development
2015 - 2016
Responsible for M&A, strategic investments and startup initiatives. Deals included Snappy Data spinout (acquired by Tibco), Slice of Lime, QuickStep, Neo and CloudCredo acquisitions.
VP/GM, Data Products
2014 - 2015
Ran the data products business at Pivotal which included Pivotal HD, Greenplum Database, HAWQ and Gemfire. Led the initiative to open source the entire entire data portfolio. During my tenure in 2015 the business achieved $100m+ in bookings. http://www.pivotal.io/big-data
CTO, Mobile
2013 - 2014
Joined Pivotal via the acquisition of my company, Xtreme Labs. My team was focused on ensuring that our Platform as a Service (PaaS), Pivotal CF is the best way to deliver mobile solutions. http://blog.pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-pivotal/news-2/how-to-win-in-mobile-app-development-quickly
Co-Founder / CTO
2007 - 2013
I started Xtreme Labs with Amar in 2007. The 2 of us grew Xtreme Labs to over 300 people and we built hundreds of apps for the worlds leading companies including Facebook, Uber, Instagram, NBA Game Time, NFL mobile, Twitter and Vine. In October 2013 Xtreme Labs was acquired by Pivotal! http://pivotal.io/agile/press-release/pivotal-acquires-xtreme-labs
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
2007 - 2013
Amar and I founded Extreme Venture Partners (EVP) to focus on providing early stage capital to Canadian companies. Companies Amar and I invested in include: BumpTop (acquired by Google) J2Play (acquired by EA) Kontagent (now part of Play Haven) Engag.io Chango (acquired by Rubicon) Fixmo (acquired by Good Technologies) Xtreme Labs (sold to founders + Chamath) Visibli Uken Games (assets acquired Jam City) Locationary (acquired by Apple) LocalResponse Rypple (acquired by Salesforce.com) Well.ca (acquired by McKesson Canada) Guardly Influitive In Nov 2013, after a very successful run (9 exits of companies we funded) Amar and I decided to sell our founders stake in EVP and refocused on making personal angel investments.
Engineering and Business Development
2006 - 2006
Helped Richard and Jamsheed start Semifore. Great outcome in 2023! https://www.arteris.com/press-releases/arteris-acquires-semifore-to-accelerate-system-on-chip-development
Hardware Engineer
2000 - 2006
Learned a lot and worked with very smart people. Worked on the following projects: - GSR-12000 ASIC development - Cisco Quantum Flow Processor development - ASIC Design, Verification and Multi-chip Simulation - Prototype integration and manufacturing test support