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Location San Francisco, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

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Website www.shaktivc.com/
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Keval Desai is Founder & Managing Director at SHAKTI, an early stage tech venture firm. Earlier he was GP at InterWest Partners. Some of his early stage investments include Canva, The RealReal, Pipedrive, Vungle, Gatik.ai, Abacus.ai, Swiftly, Backblaze, Aidaptive, Queenly, Cuyana, Postmates, Zindi, and others.

Previously, Desai held product

& engineering leadership roles at Google, Digg, Global Village Communications & Tandem Computers. He also co-founded Achex, a venture backed online payment company sold to First Data Corp.

He has a BE (Electrical Engineering), MS (Computer Science) & MBA.

Personal Investments

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investments. Their latest investment was

Seed Round - Felt

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Felt	—	Seed Round - Felt	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Swiftly	—	Series A - Swiftly	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Abacus.AI	—	Seed Round - Abacus.AI	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Gfycat	—	Seed Round - Gfycat	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Pogoseat	No	Seed Round - Pogoseat	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	SourceNinja	No	Convertible Note - SourceNinja	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Buffer	—	Seed Round - Buffer	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	I Done This	No	Seed Round - I Done This	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Post Intelligence	—	Seed Round - Post Intelligence	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Optimizely	No	Angel Round - Optimizely	obfuscated obfuscation

Partner Investments

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	NextWork	SHAKTI	Yes	Seed Round - NextWork	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Kinetic Automation	SHAKTI	No	Series A - Kinetic Automation	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	The RealReal	InterWest Partners	—	Series G - The RealReal	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Spredfast	InterWest Partners	No	Series F - Spredfast	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	The RealReal	InterWest Partners	No	Series E - The RealReal	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	CrowdBlue	InterWest Partners	—	Series A - CrowdBlue	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Triposo	InterWest Partners	Yes	Venture Round - Triposo	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Polymorph	ONSET Ventures	—	Series A - Polymorph	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Polymorph	InterWest Partners	—	Series A - Polymorph	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Joyus	InterWest Partners	—	Series C - Joyus	obfuscated obfuscation

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exits. Their most notable exits are

SourceNinja

Rixty

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Optimizely

SourceNinja SourceNinja notifies license changes, security vulnerabilities, and performance problems to software developers.
Rixty Rixty, an online payment system, allows users to spend money on online games, virtual worlds and other types of digital content.
Optimizely Optimizely is a digital experience platform for unlocking digital potential, content, commerce, and optimization.
I Done This I Done This is a software company that offers an email-based productivity log to track, share, and celebrate daily progress.
Gfycat Gfycat is GIF hosting platform that allows users to create, discover, and share GIFs through their mobile phones and computers.

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Keval Desai

has

current jobs including

Investor

The RealReal

Investor

Periscope Data

, and

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Pipedrive

. Additionally,

Keval Desai

has had

past jobs including

VP of Product

Digg

The RealReal InvestorApr 2013
Periscope Data InvestorJan 2013
Pipedrive InvestorOct 2011
InterWest Partners General PartnerApr 1, 2011
Optimizely InvestorFeb 2010
SHAKTI Founder and Partner

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Digg	VP of Product	2010	Apr 1, 2011
Google	Director of Product Management	Jun 2003	Nov 2009
ONSET Ventures	Principal	2001	Jun 1, 2003
Achex	Co-founder	2000	2001
Global Village Communications	Product Manager	Jan 1996	Jun 1997
Tandem Computers	Software Engineer	Aug 1, 1991	Dec 31, 1995
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners	VC associate	—	—

Board and Advisor Roles

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Keval Desai

holds

board and advisor roles including

Investor

Gfycat

Investor

Rixty

, and

Board Member

Grokker

Gfycat InvestorJul 18, 2016
Rixty Investor2011
Grokker Board Member
Wand Labs Investor
Triposo Board Member
Aviate Investor
Hownd Partner
Cuyana Board Member
Canva Investor
Polymorph Board Member

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
The RealReal	Board Member	Apr 2, 2013	Dec 2018
Design Inc.	Investor	Mar 2, 2016	—
Locbox	Board Member	May 1, 2012	—
Flurry	Board Member	—	—
Knotch	Investor	—	—

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