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Umesh Padval

Managing Director at Thomvest

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Umesh Padval is a seasoned Investor, Entrepreneur, and Board member based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a strong background in venture capital, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. With a Master's Degree from Stanford University and a Bachelor's Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Umesh has made significant investments in notable companies like StackGen, Bolster AI, Isovalent, and ThousandEyes, demonstrating expertise in Series A, Series B, and Series D funding rounds. Currently serving as the Managing Director at Thomvest and holding board positions at several companies such as Impinj and Baffle, Umesh's career highlights include investments in innovative startups like Cohere, Harness, and CyCognito, showcasing a keen eye for emerging technologies in sectors like cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and AI.

Work Experience 

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Thomvest

  • Managing Director

    2016 - Current

    Focused on early state and late stage investments in cybersecurity, cloud and AI infrastructure start-ups. Looking forward to partnering with talented serial entrepreneurs and founders with disruptive and differentiated platforms which address a major pain-point for their customers. We bring to our portfolio companies an extensive CEO and board experience, large network of CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Chief data officers,strategic thinking, C-level recruiting and 24/7 partnership building successful companies and have fun doing it together!

Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.

thomvest.com
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appCD

  • Investor and Board member

    2023

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Cohere

  • Investor

    2023

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CyCognito

  • Investor

    2021

CyCognito is a leading exposure management platform that is fully-automated & highly scalable, driven to create positive business impact

Raised $153,000,000.00 from Thomvest Ventures, Harpoon, The Westly Group, Heritage Group, Dan Scheinman, Geodesic Capital, Accel, UpWest, Sorenson Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

cycognito.com
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Harness

  • Investor

    2021

Harness is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.

Raised $575,000,000.00 from Hercules Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

harness.io
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Impinj

  • Board Member

    2020

Impinj is a provider of RAIN RFID solutions that deliver Item Intelligence to retail, healthcare and other industries.

Raised $137,281,952.00 from Polaris Partners, Mobius Venture Capital, GF Private Equity, AllianceBernstein, Madrona, ARCH Venture Partners and Intel Capital.

impinj.com
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Bolster, Inc

  • Investor and Board member

    2019

Bolster AI protects against phishing and scams across multiple channels, such as the web, social media, app stores, and even the dark web.

Raised $46,000,000.00 from Transform Capital, Cheyenne Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Cervin Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund and Crosslink Capital.

bolster.ai
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Qwiet AI

  • Investor and Board Member

    2018

Qwiet is an IT firm that developes an AI -powered AppSec platform.

Raised $58,300,000.00 from Blackstone Innovations Investments and SYN Ventures.

qwiet.ai

Clari

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2018

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Baffle, Inc.

  • Investor

    2017

Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.

Raised $36,500,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP), Lytical Ventures, Celesta Capital and Nepenthe Capital.

baffle.io

Education 

Investments 

StackGen

Seed

Total funding: $6M

Cohere

Series C

Total funding: $440M

Bolster AI

Series A

Total funding: $39M

Isovalent

Series B

Total funding: $69M

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