Investing Profile

Karan Mehandru

VCInvestor

Managing Director at Madrona

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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 (22)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total 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), 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), Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Christian Bach, Guillermo Rauch
Deepgram	Series BNov 2022$47M	$130M
Co-investors: Zach DeWitt (Wing Venture Capital), Deepak Ravichandran (Alkeon Capital), George Hoyem, Louis Beryl, 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: Alex Kolicich (8VC), Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Robert Downey Jr (Footprint Coalition), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Ben Casnocha (Village Global), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Axiom Partners), Peter Sonsini, Trevor McFedries, Gwyneth Paltrow, Baron Davis, Andy Coravos, Yan-David Erlich, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Mathilde Collin
JumpCloud	Series FOct 2021$66M	$410M
Co-investors: Seth Levine (Foundry Group), Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Casber Wang (Sapphire Ventures), Ludwig Schulze (Alumni Ventures ), Scott Hilleboe (H.I.G. Capital), Gary Reiner (General Atlantic), Gil Penchina (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Jonathan Medved (OurCrowd), Albert Koh (H.I.G. Capital), 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 Batra (Mayfield), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Rajeev Dham (Sapphire Ventures), Nino Marakovic (Sapphire Ventures), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Andy Sack (Founders Co-op), Chris DeVore (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)