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Venky Karnam

General Partner at Shift Left Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2023 - Current

  • Venture Partner

    2017 - 2022

    Afore Capital is a $300 million fund to support product-oriented founders at the very earliest stage (pre-seed).

  • Angel Investor

    2010 - 2018

    FamPay (YC S19) Basis (YC S19) Groww.in (YC W18) Meesho (YC W17) Iterable

  • Ads Infrastructure

    2010 - 2017

    - Integrated AdMob into AdWords and AdSense.

  • Infrastructure

    2006 - 2010

    - Early hire. - AdMob grew from $1M -> $100M ARR - Acquired by Google for $750M

  • Shopping Search

    2005 - 2006

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