Investing Profile

Karan Mehandru

VCInvestor
Managing Director at Madrona
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Stanford University Network
513 CONNECTIONS
Stanford University Network
513 CONNECTIONS
Trinity Ventures Network
17 CONNECTIONS
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Madrona Ventures Managing Director
$500K - $10.0M
$5.0M
43
$2B
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Shaped
Series AJul 2024$8M
$8M
Unstructured Technologies
Series BMar 2024$40M
Series AJul 2023$25M
$65M
Co-investors: Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Vivek Ranadive (Bow Capital)
Clerk
Series BJan 2024$30M
Series AMar 2023$15M
$55M
Co-investors: Reid Christian (CRV), Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Guillermo Rauch, Christian Bach
Deepgram
Series BNov 2022$47M
$88M
Co-investors: Zach DeWitt (Wing Venture Capital), Deepak Ravichandran (Alkeon Capital), Louis Beryl, George Hoyem, Preetha Parthasarathy
CommerceIQ
Series DMar 2022$120M
Series CJun 2021$60M
Series BJan 2016$12M
Series AJul 2014$9M
$200M
Co-investors: Nikitas Koutoupes (Insight Partners), Priya Saiprasad (SoftBank Vision Fund)
Forethought
Series CDec 2021$65M
$92M
Co-investors: Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Alex Kolicich (8VC), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Robert Downey Jr (Footprint Coalition), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Ben Casnocha (Village Global), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Axiom Partners), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Peter Sonsini, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Yan-David Erlich, Trevor McFedries, Gwyneth Paltrow, Baron Davis, Mathilde Collin, Andy Coravos
JumpCloud
Series FOct 2021$66M
$410M
Co-investors: Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Casber Wang (Sapphire Ventures), Seth Levine (Foundry Group), Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Ludwig Schulze (Alumni Ventures ), Gary Reiner (General Atlantic), Scott Hilleboe (H.I.G. Capital), Jonathan Medved (OurCrowd), Albert Koh (H.I.G. Capital), Gil Penchina (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Chaim Meir Tessler, Will Herman
Outreach
Series GJun 2021$200M
Series FJun 2020$50M
Series EApr 2019$110M
Series DMay 2018$65M
Series CMay 2017$30M
Series BJun 2016$18M
$490M
Co-investors: Rajeev Dham (Sapphire Ventures), Nino Marakovic (Sapphire Ventures), Rajeev Batra (Mayfield), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Andy Sack (Founders Co-op), Binh Tran (Ascend Vietnam Ventures), Sarah Imbach (Broadway Angels), Aniq Rahman (Vast Ventures), Mark Sugarman (MHS Capital), Ellen Levy (Silicon Valley Connect), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Chris DeVore (Founders' Co-op)
General Partner Trinity Ventures2010 - Present
Senior Associate Scale Venture Partners2007 - 2010
Account Manager - Worldwide Sales Synopsys2006 - 2007
Sr. Consultant Synopsys Inc.2004 - 2006
Sr. Design Implementation Engineer PMC-Sierra1999 - 2004
Design Engineer AIT Corp.1997 - 1998
Carleton University Electrical Engineering
George Mason University Electrical Engineering
Stanford University Masters in Management Science Specialization in Technology and Entrepreneurship
Stanford University