I am a young venture capitalist living in Boston. I focus on early stage investments in technology. Previously I was with Summit Partners in their Palo Alto office, where I spent a lot of time hunting down later stage venture investments in communications and internet service companies (I also evaluated a large building product company’s buyout.) Briefly I worked for a small, service business focused, buyout group in San Diego. There, I learned how profitable portable toilet servicing companies are, and also that you should not wear a new pair of shoes to such a company’s service site… I started my career during the dot.com boom in San Fransisco, where I worked for the technology investment banking group of Hambrecht & Quist. I enjoyed the bubble, and stuck it out all the way until the bust, surviving a couple of mergers and ending up with a JP Morgan business card.
Prasad and I became friends at Wharton while we were getting our MBAs. We took a trip together to South East Asia and worked on building the Wharton Follies set. While I was busy trying to network into venture capital firms, Prasad was conceiving his current start up idea and writing code.
I enjoy cooking, the ocassional glass of wine (I was president of the Wharton Wine Club) and Boston’s pretty amazing sporting culture.
Besides the MBA from Wharton, I have an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth.
My employer, Atlas Venture (http://www.atlasventure.com/), is not responsible for any of the posting on this blog. All of the items posted by me are my own personal opinion, and are not endorsed by Atlas.
