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  • Investor Type  Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Early Stage Venture, Seed
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Rob Chandra is a general partner with Avid Park Ventures, a San Francisco based venture capital firm. The Avid Park team's current or prior investments include: Alibaba (IPO), Andela, AuptiX, CrowdStrike, Dropbox, Fisdom, Kabam (Netmarble Games), Lending Club (IPO), Lyft, Magnacom (Broadcom), MongoDB (IPO), Nutanix (IPO), ServiceMax (GE),

Slack, Snap (IPO), Sprinklr, Twitter (IPO), Uber, WeTravel, and Xendit.

Prior to founding Avid Park, Chandra was a managing partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he served on the firm’s investment and management committees. Since entering the venture capital industry in 1996, Chandra has been involved with more than 25 early-stage investments that have gone public or been acquired by other public companies. He has been recognized on the Forbes Midas list of the top 100 venture capitalists five different times over his career.

Chandra teaches courses on entrepreneurship and venture capital at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business where he is a two time recipient of the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award. He is currently the Board Chair of the UC Berkeley Endowment and also the Board Chair of Menlo School's Board of Trustees. Chandra holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from University of California at Berkeley.

Number of Investments 1
Rob Chandra invested in Amitree on Jan 8, 2014. This investment - Seed Round - Amitree - was valued at
$2.7M
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Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Jan 8, 2014
Amitree
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Seed Round - Amitree
$2.7M
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Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 5
Rob Chandra is the President & CEO at Avid Park Capital. Additionally, Rob Chandra has had 5 past jobs including General Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Bessemer Venture Partners
General Partner20002015
Commonweal Ventures
General Partner19961999
McKinsey & Company
Engagement Manager19931996
Accenture
Team Member19881991
IBM
Sales & Marketing19861988
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 10
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 22
Rob Chandra holds 10 board and advisor roles including Member of the Board of Directors at Applied solar Technologies, Member of the Board of Directors at Tilera, and Member of the Board of Directors at Avnera.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Orient Green Power
Member of the Board of Directors20072012
Bharat Matrimony
Member of the Board of Directors20102012
IL&FS Transportation Networks
Member of the Board of Directors20092012
Shriram EPC Limted
Member of the Board of Directors20062009
OnMobile
Member of the Board of Observer20082009
Mellanox Technologies
Member of the Board of Directors20012008
Motilal Oswal Financial Services
Member of the Board of Observer20052008
IPC-The Hospitalist Company
Member of the Board of Observer20012008
PA Semi
Member of the Board of Directors20042008
American Hearing Center
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