Sashi Reddi

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Investor & Founder, SRI Capital



Sashi is the founder and managing partner of SRI Capital, a seed stage venture fund with investments in over 20 companies in technology and media. 

Previously, Sashi was the founder and CEO of AppLabs, the world’s largest independent software testing company with over 2,500 QA professionals in India, the US, and the UK. AppLabs was funded by Sequoia Capital India. CSC acquired AppLabs in September 2011. Series A investors in AppLabs received a 10X return on their investment in 6 years . 

A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started three other companies prior to AppLabs. These were EZPower Systems (web content management pioneer acquired by DocuCorp, and eventually a part of Oracle), iCoop (group purchasing dotcom), and FXLabs (leading Indian game developer acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment).

Sashi received his BTech in Computer Science from the IIT Delhi, an MS in Computer Science from NYU, and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Sashi serves on the advisory board of Wharton Entrepreneurship and the board of Ben Franklin Technology Partners. He is also on the board of T-Hub, which expects to become the largest incubator in India, housing over 1,000 startups in the next 3 years. He is a charter member of TiE Philadelphia and TiE Hyderabad.

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Monday, 09 May 2016, 05:39 Hrs
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Monday, 25 April 2016, 07:33 Hrs
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Monday, 28 March 2016, 05:15 Hrs
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Tuesday, 01 March 2016, 08:55 Hrs
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Monday, 22 February 2016, 05:54 Hrs
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Monday, 15 February 2016, 07:11 Hrs
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Monday, 08 February 2016, 07:45 Hrs
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