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Venky Harinarayan

Venky Harinarayan

Partner atRocketship.vcCalifornia
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Venky Harinarayan is an entrepreneur and investor. He founded Junglee and Kosmix, and invested in Efficient Frontier. He worked at Walmart and Amazon.com, and created Cambrian Ventures.

What Venky can write

Writes checks of$1M to $10M
Comes in atSeed, Series A, Series BCan lead the round
Ownership target7-10%At first check
Pitch pageSubmit on their siteThe firm asks founders to apply here.

Rocketship.vc writes $1M to $10M checks, larger than 83% of firms in the atlas.

Bars: how many firms report each check band. Highlighted: Rocketship.vc.

Career

  1. Junglee · founder
  2. Kosmix · founder
  3. Efficient Frontier · founding investor
  4. Amazon.com
  5. Walmart · Senior Vice President of Global e-Commerce
  6. Cambrian Ventures
    2000
  7. Amazon.com
  8. Rocketship.vc · Partner
    Now

Companies founded

JungleeKosmixCambrian Ventures

Investments named in public bios

FacebookLyftTutorVistaNeoterisAster DataYousenditEfficient Frontier

Focus

e-commercesearchventure capitalsocial media marketing

Education

IIT Madras, bachelor's degreeUCLA, master'sStanford University, PhD

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Questions

Who is Venky Harinarayan?

Venky Harinarayan is an entrepreneur and investor. He founded Junglee and Kosmix, and invested in Efficient Frontier. He worked at Walmart and Amazon.com, and created Cambrian Ventures.

How much does Venky Harinarayan invest?

Venky Harinarayan invests through Rocketship.vc, which writes checks of $1M to $10M at seed, series a, series b.

How do I pitch Venky Harinarayan?

A warm intro from a founder Rocketship.vc backed works best. A short LinkedIn note with one line on traction is the next best route.

What did Venky Harinarayan do before Rocketship.vc?

founder at Junglee; founder at Kosmix; founding investor at Efficient Frontier; Amazon.com; Senior Vice President of Global e-Commerce at Walmart; Cambrian Ventures; Amazon.com.

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