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Our team of venture veterans have spent decades developing vast experience and connections to help promising companies make their mark.
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Venktesh Shukla
Founder & General Partner
Shukla has an impressive track record as a seed stage investor first as the Founding Chair of TiE Angels and, since 2014, as the Founder and General Partner of Monta Vista Capital. Prior to his career as a seed stage investor, Venk had a proven track record of leading companies through rapid growth in his roles in sales, marketing and… -
Roger Krakoff
General Partner
Roger is a successful early stage enterprise venture capitalist. For over twenty years he has invested in a wide range of leading technology enabled solutions focused on improving the productivity and efficiency of businesses. He seed funded or helped start over 30 companies focused on enterprise computing including DocuSign (DOCU) and Acquia (acquired by Vista Equity) and Cloud Technology… -
Prashant Shah
Partner
Prashant is a Partner at Monta Vista Capital. He has been an early stage venture investor since 2001 when he was with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, an early stage VC focused on enterprise and infrastructure software. Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack,… -
Glen Anderson
Partner
Glen has served a variety of engineering and management roles for eleven companies in Silicon Valley since 1990, including two bootstraps and one VC-funded start-up. He began his career in the VLSI design team of Sun Microsystem’s UltraSPARC, moved to Electronic Design Automation software tools, and then to data networking. For the most recent eleven years he was at Google,… -
Viswa Sankaranarayanan
Venture Partner
Viswa has worked in technical leadership roles across Big Tech for almost 25 years. Most recently he was part of Waymo Research and Google Research – working on cutting edge ML applied research for 9 years. Prior to that he was a Principal Engineer at Amazon – part of the Kindle technical leadership teams, where he worked on fundamental problems… -
Job Simon
Venture Partner and CTO
Job Simon was until recently VP and CTO of Business Technology at Workday, responsible for overall Architecture strategy for IT, Alpha Lab, Digital Strategy and Advanced Analytics Technology. Prior to that he was VP of Enterprise Architecture & Strategy at Salesforce. He was the CTO of Data Products at Cymer where he lead a Data Science team, using Predictive models… -
Matt Cherian
Venture Partner
Matt Cherian is a 20+ years Capital Markets, Investment Banking, and Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor to Global Corporates, Institutional Asset Managers and Financial Sponsors. Matt has an MBA from the London Business School and a Bachelors Degree in Economics & Finance from University of Houston…. -
Kaz Terada
Venture Advisor
Kaz Terada is a Tokyo-based Venture Advisor at Monta Vista Capital, where he supports portfolio companies in expanding into the Japanese and broader Asian markets. Kaz brings extensive experience in cross-border venture investment and business development. He established ITOCHU Corporation’s first U.S.-based venture capital fund and has supported the market entry and growth of more than 50 global technology companies in…
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