The Most Popular Indian Investors In Silicon Valley


Manu Kumar

Associated with: K9 Ventures

Investments per year: 4-6

Investments per startup: $100,000 - 250,000

Manu Kumar a popular angel investor is also the founder of the famous K9 Ventures, a seed venture fund company. Kumar was an active participant and was involved in the tech industry for some time. He also has a CEO position on his profile when he was heading the software company called SneakerLabs which was acquired by Octane software in the year 2000. He also served as a CEO of iMeet, a web conference company which later merged with Netspoke in 2002. Some of his portfolio companies are Torbit, Lytro, and Twilio.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Associated with: The Social+Capital Partnership and Embarcadero Ventures

Investments per year: 10

Chamath Palihapitiya is name that brings pride to every Indian. He is the founder of the Social+Capital Partnership, a venture firm that proactively invested $200 to 400 million approximately. In the past, Palihapitiya also served as the Vice President at the social networking giant- Facebook, in mobile growth, platform and monetization. Though the figure on investment per startup is not disclosed he is actively associated with various companies and his portfolio includes Friend.ly, Treehouse, and Yammer.

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