Venky Harinarayan - Founding Partner @ Rocketship.vc

Overview

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Primary Job Title Founding Partner
Primary Organization
Rocketship.vc

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

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Venky Harinarayan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Founder and Principal Owner of San Francisco Unicorns. Venky previously worked at Cambrian Ventures as a Founding Partner. Venky Harinarayan attended Stanford University.

Personal Investments

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Venky Harinarayan

has made

investments. Their latest investment was

Series A - American Cricket Enterprises

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American Cricket Enterprises

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	American Cricket Enterprises	Yes	Series A - American Cricket Enterprises	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	American Cricket Enterprises	—	Seed Round - American Cricket Enterprises	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	DocsApp	—	Series A - DocsApp	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	HyperTrack	—	Pre Seed Round - HyperTrack	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	DocsApp	No	Seed Round - DocsApp	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Cuberon	—	Seed Round - Cuberon	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Descartes Labs	—	Seed Round - Descartes Labs	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Blueshift	—	Seed Round - Blueshift	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Qubole	—	Series A - Qubole	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Trifacta	—	Series A - Trifacta	obfuscated obfuscation

Partner Investments

Number of Partner Investments

Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Passage AI	Milliways Ventures	—	Seed Round - Passage AI	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	PunchTab	Cambrian Ventures	—	Series A - PunchTab	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Joyus	Cambrian Ventures	—	Series A - Joyus	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Jasper Design Automation	Cambrian Ventures	No	Series D - Jasper Design Automation	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Gigaom	Cambrian Ventures	—	Series B - Gigaom	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Meta	Cambrian Ventures	No	Series A - Meta	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Jasper Design Automation	Cambrian Ventures	Yes	Series A - Jasper Design Automation	obfuscated obfuscation

Exits

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exits. Their most notable exits are

Trifacta

Qubole

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PunchTab

Trifacta Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Qubole Qubole is a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics.
PunchTab PunchTab, an engagement & insights platform, helps brands connect to & understand consumers, delivering actionable insights & increasing.
Locbox Locbox Labs provides local businesses everything they need for marketing in an all in one solution.
DocsApp DocsApp is an online doctor consultation platform that provides consultation for patients of all age groups in several key disciplines.
Descartes Labs Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions.
ClearStory Data ClearStory Data provides solutions enabling business users to discover, analyze and consume data at scale from different data sources.
Blueshift Blueshift is a software development company that uses AI technology to provide intelligent customer engagement across various platforms.

Jobs

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Number of Past Jobs

Venky Harinarayan

has

current jobs including

Partner

Epsilon Ventures

Founder & Principal Owner

San Francisco Unicorns

, and

Founding Partner

Rocketship.vc

. Additionally,

Venky Harinarayan

has had

past jobs including

Co-Founder

Kosmix

Epsilon Ventures PartnerJul 2025
San Francisco Unicorns Founder & Principal OwnerJul 2023
Rocketship.vc Founding Partner2015
Milliways Ventures Founding Partner2013
Walmart Labs Founder

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Kosmix	Co-Founder	2005	May 2021
Cambrian Ventures	Founding Partner	2000	2015
Cambria Inc	Founding Partner	2000	2015
Efficient Frontier	Founding Investor, Board Member	2002	Jan 2012
Junglee	Co-Founder	1996	1998
Amazon	General Manager	—	—

Board and Advisor Roles

Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles

Venky Harinarayan

holds

board and advisor roles including

Mentor

TiE LaunchPad

Investor

Twin Prime

, and

Board Member

Lore IO

TiE LaunchPad Mentor2014
Twin Prime Investor
Lore IO Board Member
Jasper Design Automation Board Of Directors

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