Investing Profile

Karan Mehandru

VCInvestor

Managing Director at Madrona

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Networks Karan is a member of

Stanford University Network

1394 CONNECTIONS

Stanford University Network

1394 CONNECTIONS

Trinity Ventures Network

31 CONNECTIONS

Scale Venture Partners Network

29 CONNECTIONS

George Mason University Network

26 CONNECTIONS

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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

Karan Mehandru's Investments On Record (28)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
SciFin	SeedSep 2026$44M	$44M
Doss	Series BMar 2026$55M	$78M
Co-investors: Tomasz Tunguz (Redpoint Ventures), Sara Du (Cornell University)
Deepgram	Series CJan 2026$130M Series BNov 2022$47M	$220M
Co-investors: Zach DeWitt (Wing Venture Capital), Louis Beryl (Andreessen Horowitz), Matthew Caspari (Alumni Ventures ), Preetha Parthasarathy (SAP.iO fund), Jeff Herbst (GFT Ventures), Deepak Ravichandran (Alkeon Capital), Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan (AVP (Advance Venture Partners)), George Hoyem
Wisdom AI	Series ANov 2025$50M SeedMay 2025$23M	$73M
Co-investors: Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com)
Fyxer AI	Series BSep 2025$30M	$40M
Co-investors: Nico Rosberg (Rosberg Ventures), Christian Reber (Freigeist), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Harry Stebbings (Stride.VC), Mario Götze (Unknown Ventures), Marc Benioff
Impart Security	Series AJun 2025$12M	$20M
Co-investors: Murat Bicer (CRV (Charles River Ventures)), David Beazley (Castor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)), Kent Lindstrom (8-Bit Capital), Jonathan Abrams (8-Bit Capital), Bryce Roberts (INDIE ENTERPRISES), Semil Shah (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout)
GrowthX AI	Series AMay 2025$12M	$12M
Shaped	Series AJul 2024$8M	$8M

Karan Mehandru's Experience

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

Karan Mehandru's Education

Carleton University Electrical Engineering

George Mason University Electrical Engineering

Stanford University Masters in Management Science Specialization in Technology and Entrepreneurship

Stanford University

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