Investing Profile

Karan Mehandru

VCInvestor

Managing Director at Madrona

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Stanford University Network

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Stanford University Network

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Trinity Ventures Network

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Current Investing Position

Madrona Ventures Managing Director

Investment Range

$500K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$5.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$2B

Karan Mehandru is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Karan Mehandru's Investments On Record (24)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
GrowthX AI	Series AMay 2025$12M	$12M
Wisdom AI	SeedMay 2025$23M	$23M
Shaped	Series AJul 2024$8M	$8M
Unstructured Technologies	Series BMar 2024$40M Series AJul 2023$25M	$65M
Co-investors: Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Laura Rippy (Alumni 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), 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), Preetha Parthasarathy, Louis Beryl
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 Investment Advisers)
Forethought	Series CDec 2021$65M	$92M
Co-investors: Alex Kolicich (8VC), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Robert Downey Jr (Footprint Coalition), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Ben Casnocha (Village Global), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Axiom Partners), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Gwyneth Paltrow, Yan-David Erlich, Trevor McFedries, Andy Coravos, Mathilde Collin, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Baron Davis