Number of Portfolio Companies 2
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
  • Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
  • Primary Organization 
    Tynker
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed

Krishna Vedati is the Co-founder and CEO of Tynker and the President of BYJU'S.

Previously, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of AT&T Interactive’s Consumer Division, where he was responsible for over $400 million of online advertising revenues.

Krishna was co-founder and CEO of Plusmo, a venture-backed mobile software

startup, which was acquired by AT&T in 2009.

Prior to Plusmo, Krishna was the CTO of Symbol’s Mobility Software Division, where he helped conceive the company’s Mobility Software Platform appliance and played a key role in growing the division’s revenue from zero to $10 million in just 18 months. This division was built based on technology developed by Covigo, Inc., a company Krishna co-founded that was acquired by Symbol Technologies in 2003.

Krishna worked at several successful startups, including Performance Awareness Corporation (now part of IBM) and Valicert (acquired by Tumbleweed), he has also co-authored two best-selling books on Linux programming, e-commerce, and java security.

Krishna has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, an M.S. degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University, and attended the Stanford University in 2011.

Number of Investments 2
Krishna Vedati has made 2 investments. Their latest investment was Seed Round - PipelineDB on May 31, 2014, when
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
May 31, 2014
PipelineDB
Seed Round - PipelineDB
May 30, 2011
Verious
Seed Round - Verious
$800K
Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 1
Krishna Vedati has 2 current jobs as President at BYJU'S and Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Tynker. Additionally, Krishna Vedati has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Plusmo.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Plusmo
Co-Founder & Chief Executive OfficerJul 2005Oct 2009
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Krishna Vedati holds 2 board and advisor roles as Circle Member & advisor at Founders Circle Capital and Board Member at Tynker.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
SplashLearn
Angel InvestorNov 2011Oct 2018
BAMCAP
AdvisorJan 1, 20142017
Number of Events 2
Krishna Vedati has participated in 2 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, INVENTURE$ 2018 on Jun 6, 2018.