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 | Raghav Kher is the Founder of Seventymm™. He has been a serial entrepreneur. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of Rendition Networks. Rendition was backed top-tier VCs such as Madrona Ventures and Ignition Partners.Under his leadership, Rendition pioneered and created a brand new software product category called Configuration Control. Their product “TrueControl” won several prestigious awards from Computer World, Network World, Network Computing, Eweek and InfoWorld. Within its first year of business, Rendition won business with 25 Fortune-500 accounts such as Well Fargo, T-Mobile, JP Morgan Chase, Countrywide Financial, Microsoft and Fidelity. In February 2005, just three years after its creation, Rendition was acquired by Opsware Inc. for $40 million.
Prior to Rendition, Raghav held variety of executive positions at Microsoft over eight years. He received his MBA from University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. He also has a MS in Mechanical Engineering and another MS in Computer Science. |
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 | Raj Atluru is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he serves on the boards of Blue Titan Software, Great Point Energy, Konarka Technologies, Seventymm™, PAR3 Communications, Ping Identity, and Solicore. In addition, he led the firm’s investments in EnerNOC, CoalTek, Cerox, Pantero and Roving Planet. Previous investments include ViaFone which was acquired by Extended Systems (XTND).
Raj currently focuses on emerging clean technologies, business and consumer services and wireless technologies and he has over 13 years of venture capital, private equity and leveraged finance experience both domestically and in emerging markets with a specific focus on India. As one of the leading venture capitalists focused on the CleanTech sector, Raj is frequently cited in leading industry and national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sierra Club Monthly, SiliconIndia, Nanoinvestor News and the Venture Capital Journal.
Raj received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. In addition, he received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business |
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 | Ayaz ul Haque is a Director of DFJ ePlanet in Silicon Valley. Prior to joining DFJ ePlanet Ventures, Ayaz was the Director of Corporate Advisory services at Crosby Financial Holdings in London, where he managed European, Gulf-state, and Asian initiatives of one of Asia's most experienced investment banks. While at Crosby, Ayaz focused on both mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. Prior to his involvement with Crosby Financial Holdings, Ayaz was the Associate Director of Corporate Finance at Peregrine Investments in Bahrain, where he developed Peregrine's corporate finance and private equity businesses in the Middle East, and identified and evaluated corporate finance and private equity opportunities. Previously, he was an associate in the Corporate Finance Group of Bear, Stearns & Co. in New York, where he was responsible for the development of the company's South Asia franchise.
Ayaz holds a B.A., summa cum laude, in Economics from Middlebury College in Vermont. |
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 | Rishi Navani has been investing in India since 1996 and is a founding managing director of Matrix Partners India. Earlier, he was the MD at Sequoia Capital India (WestBridge Capital Partners) where he played a key role in all aspects of building the firm since 2001. Rishi has also worked at Apax Partners and started his investment career at Indocean Ventures, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management and JP Morgan Partners based in Mumbai. He has also been a management consultant at A.T. Kearney and McKinsey & Co.. Rishi currently serves on the board of Seventymm. He's previously invested in Indecomm Global Services, Jamdat Mobile (JMDT, acquired by Electronics Arts), Nazara, Pinstorm and Zavata.
Rishi holds a B.A. with Distinction in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. with Distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Ford Fellowship Award as the #1 ranked first-year student. He is a member of the Mumbai chapter of YEO. |
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