SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Sunil Nagaraj, Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners Focus: Internet, Mobile, and Social Media-Related
Start: 07/07/2011 - 8:00 am
End: 07/07/2011- 9:30 am
Contact Info:
Jai Kumar
Email:
jai@vigyana.com
Cell: 408-406-4693
Location: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
390 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
URL:-
www.svase.org/events/vc-breakfast-club-sunil-nagaraj-senior-associate-bessemer-venture-partners-focus-internet-mob
Bessemer, Venture Partners,
www.bvp.com
BVP has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Boston, Mumbai and Herzliya and manages more than $2 billion of venture capital invested in more than 130 companies located around the world. Some of our portfolio companies, like Ungermann Bass and Verisign, were started in our offices. With our roadmap approach to investing, BVP seeks out entrepreneurial opportunities across industries and geographies.
Even so, the everyday priority of BVP professionals is applying our considerable startup experience to support the entrepreneurs we back. In 2008, Bessemer Venture Partners realized three IPOs (OnMobile, Shriram EPC, IPC: The Hospitalist Company) and six major acquisitions of companies in our portfolio (IAG by Nielsen, Sirtris by Glaxo, Gracenote by Sony, Bladelogic by BMC, PA Semi by Apple, and Pure Networks by Cisco).
Sunil Nagaraj, Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners
Sunil is a senior associate in the Menlo Park, CA office. He focuses on investments in internet, mobile, and social media-related companies and is closely involved with Bessemer's investments in BillShrink, TripWire, GetInsured, Smule, and Nominum.
Prior to Bessemer, Sunil was the founder and CEO of Triangulate, a venture-backed dating startup using social media behaviors to drive algorithmic matching. Sunil has also worked in Cisco's Corporate Development group and as a consultant with Bain & Company where he worked on projects in the technology and media industries. He has also spent time working with several early-stage startups (Sendio, ZeeWise, Celito) in business development and engineering roles.
Sunil holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated with honors. Sunil serves as Co-Chair of the Computer History Museum NextGen Advisory Board.
When: Thursday, July 7
8 – 9:30 AM
Location: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, 390 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
Pre-Registered Rates:
Members - $25; Affiliates who advertise this event - $39; General Public - $49.
This event is intended for entrepreneurs seeking feedback on their startup ideas and funding strategies. Please do not register if you do not fit this profile.
This event is co-sponsored by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP,
www.sheppardmullin.com.
