Ram Shriram - Founder & Managing Partner @ Sherpalo Ventures

Overview

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Primary Job Title Founder & Managing Partner
Primary Organization
Sherpalo Ventures

Location Menlo Park, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast
Gender Male
Also Known As Paul Veradittakit

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Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000.

From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company.

Prior to

that, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998.

Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation.

Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.

Personal Investments

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Ram Shriram

has made

investments. Their latest investment was

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Iconic	—	Seed Round - Iconic	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Cosmoserve Space	—	Pre Seed Round - Cosmoserve Space	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Manifold Labs	—	Series A - Manifold Labs	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	World Labs	—	Venture Round - World Labs	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Yupp	—	Seed Round - Yupp	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Entri	—	Venture Round - Entri	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Moonhub	—	Seed Round - Moonhub	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Arta	—	Series A - Arta	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	NocoDB	—	Seed Round - NocoDB	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Hebbia	No	Series A - Hebbia	obfuscated obfuscation

Partner Investments

Number of Partner Investments

Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Skyroot Aerospace	Sherpalo Ventures	Yes	Venture Round - Skyroot Aerospace	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Avantis Labs	Pantera Capital	Yes	Series A - Avantis Labs	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	GridCARE	Sherpalo Ventures	—	Seed Round - GridCARE	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	DataHub	Sherpalo Ventures	—	Series A - DataHub	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Aisera	Sherpalo Ventures	—	Series D - Aisera	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Skyroot Aerospace	Sherpalo Ventures	Yes	Convertible Note - Skyroot Aerospace	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Notion	Sherpalo Ventures	—	Angel Round - Notion	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Skycatch	Sherpalo Ventures	—	Series B - Skycatch	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	QuikrEasy	Sherpalo Ventures	—	Seed Round - QuikrEasy	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Skycatch	Sherpalo Ventures	—	Venture Round - Skycatch	obfuscated obfuscation

Exits

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Yubico

Ram Shriram

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exits. Their most notable exits are

Yubico

StumbleUpon

, and

Socialcam

Yubico Yubico protects logins with hardware devices like YubiKey, which offer secure and user-friendly two-factor and passwordless authentication.
StumbleUpon StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds and recommends personalized web content to its users.
Socialcam SocialCam is a mobile app for Android and the iPhone that allows users to capture, edit, share and view videos online.
Robust Intelligence Robust Intelligence is a software firm that uses an automated approach to protect companies from AI security and safety vulnerabilities.
Pachama Pachama harnesses AI and satellite data to empower companies to confidently invest in nature.
Optimizely Optimizely is a digital experience platform for unlocking digital potential, content, commerce, and optimization.
Moonhub Moonhub is the agentic AI platform built for the future of work.
Inkling Systems Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used.
Heap Heap is a platform that provides analytics infrastructure to reduce the annoying parts of user analytics.
Google Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software.

Jobs

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Ram Shriram

is the

Founder & Managing Partner

Sherpalo Ventures

. Additionally,

Ram Shriram

has had

past jobs including

Vice President of Business Development

Amazon

Sherpalo Ventures Founder & Managing PartnerJan 1, 2000

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Amazon	Vice President of Business Development	Aug 1998	Sep 1999
Junglee	President	—	Aug 1998
Netscape	Member of the Executive Team	—	—

Board and Advisor Roles

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Ram Shriram

holds

board and advisor roles including

Board Member

Abacus.AI

Member of the Advisory Board

Mixmax

, and

Member of the Board of Directors

Next Jump

Abacus.AI Board MemberJul 2020
Mixmax Member of the Advisory BoardOct 2014
Next Jump Member of the Board of Directors2006
Google Member of the Board of DirectorsSep 1998
Gooru Member of the Board of Directors
[24]7.ai Managing Partner at Sherpalo Ventures, LLC
Skyroot Aerospace Board Member
Stanford University Member of the Board of Trustees
Docusign Member of the Advisory Board
Zazzle Member of the Board of Directors

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
StumbleUpon	Member of the Board of Directors	Apr 13, 2009	—
Plaxo	Board Member	—	—

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