BV JAGADEESH
Venture Partner
BV is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and angel Investor. A successful serial entrepreneur, BV was the Founding investor & CEO of NetScaler, pioneering the concept of Application Delivery, ultimately acquired by Citrix for $325M where BV served as Group VP and GM for Citrix’s Application Networking division. Prior to Netscaler, BV was Co-Founder & CTO of Exodus communications, pioneering the concept of cloud hosting and data centers resulting in a highly successful IPO and $30 billion market cap.
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BV is currently a Board member or advisor at Aarna Networks, Attivo, Cohesity, Empinfo, HeadSpin, Monetize360, Rexera.ai, SwingVision, TenXer Labs, and Tetrate. He was a seed investor behind Ankeena (ACQ: Juniper Networks), Arkin (ACQ: VMWare), NetMagic (ACQ: NTT), Nutanix (IPO), Ocarina (ACQ: Dell), and Yodlee (IPO).
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BV has been a Venture Angel for 15 years with 40 Investments resulting in Five 10X+ exits including 100X+ Unicorn IPO, so far.
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He’s an adjunct faculty member at the Leavey School of Business, SCU, and actively involved with non profits for the betterment of the world such as UVCE Foundation – providing scholarships to deserving students, One School At A Time – Constructs School buildings for the under privileged, Akshaya Patra – providing mid-day meals to 1.6 Million children everyday, and Boys and Girls Club of Peninsula.
INVENTUS INVESTMENTS
Aarna Networks
Monetize360
Rexera.ai
SwingVision
TenXer Labs
INVESTMENTS PRIOR TO INVENTUS
Ankeena (ACQ: Juniper Networks)
Arkin
Attivo
BioFi
Cloud Harmonics (ACQ: IngramMicro)
Cohesity (UNICORN)
EmpInfo
Exodus (DECACORN)
HeadSpin
Inhabitr
NetMagic (ACQ: NTT)
NetScaler (ACQ: Citrix)
Nutanix (DECACORN)
Ocarina (ACQ: Dell)
Tetrate
Yodlee