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Varsha Tagare
Qualcomm Ventures
Santa Clara, California
Overview
Varsha Tagare is the Managing Director at Qualcomm Ventures, with a successful track record of investing in companies like Shadowfax and Zuddl. She has made significant investments in various sectors such as Digital Health and IoT, including leading funding rounds like Series E for Shadowfax and Series A for Zuddl.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2017 - Current
Varsha Tagare is a Managing Director at Qualcomm Ventures and an advocate for diversity in the technology sector. She is focused on Digital Enterprise in the US. She also oversees a $150M fund dedicated to India and cross border Digital Enterprise investments. Varsha was recognized as a Rising Star by Global Corporate Venture Organization in 2019. She has led and managed investments in Blue Canoe, JAMDAT(IPO), Lookout, Locus, MindTickle, Mobile365(M&A by Sybase), Sibros, Zinier and Zuddl. Her international portfolio includes Capillary Technologies, Enstage (M&A by Nasper), Ideaforge, MapMyIndia, MCX(IPO), Ridlr (M&A by Ola), Reverie Language Tech (M&A by Reliance) and Yourstory. The India Fund has also invested in companies such as boAt, Bounce, Locus, ShadowFax, Ninjakart and Stellapps.
Sr. Director
2013 - 2017
Invest in technology companies in mobile sector.
Qualcomm Ventures is a global investor that assists entrepreneurs in creating revolutionary businesses.
Investor
2019
Zinier is an intelligent field service automation platform that helps teams work smarter and faster, from the back office to the field.
Zinier offers a low-code field service automation platform that provides a combined power of humans and technology.
Raised $120,000,000.00 from ICONIQ Growth, Tiger Global Management, Qualcomm Ventures, Newfund, NGP Capital, Founders Fund and Accel.
Board Observer
2023
Ethernovia is a developer of an Ethernet system that provides the next evolution in vehicle communication.
Raised $64,000,000.00 from ENEA Capital, Porsche Automobil Holding, Taiwania Capital Management Corporation, VentureTech Alliance, Qualcomm Ventures, AMD Ventures, Fall Line Capital, Western Digital Capital and Taiwania Capital Management Corporation.
Board Observer
2023
HDVI is a technology-first commercial auto insurance provider.
Raised $48,500,000.00 from ATX Venture Partners, Munich Re Ventures, Autotech Ventures, 8VC, Daimler Trucks North America, Qualcomm Ventures and Weatherford Capital.
Board Observer Sibros
2022
Sibros powers software-defined vehicle success with its vehicle-to-cloud platform for better software and data management.
Raised $85,500,050.00 from Global Brain Corporation.
Board Observer and Investor
2022
Zuddl is a conference management company that provides online conferencing services.
Raised $15,350,000.00 from Waveform Ventures, Alpha Wave Global, Darkmode Ventures, growX ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.
Board Observer and Investor
2021
Investor
2020
Enriching millions of lives by bringing next generation 5G telecom technology to India
Board Observer
2019
Blue Canoe uses brain science and a virtual AI teacher to help you learn the sounds and rhythm of English in a revolutionary way.
Blue Canoe is an AI B2B company that has revolutionized how to help non-native English speakers improve their spoken English
Raised $4,400,000.00 from Qualcomm Ventures, Kernel Labs, Fantail Ventures, Foothill Ventures, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Kernel Labs.
Board Observer and Investor
2015
Sales Readiness for the Customer-Centric Enterprise
MindTickle is a software company that offers sales readiness and enablement tools for businesses.
Raised $281,300,000.00 from Qualcomm Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, NewView Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Education
Investments
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