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
45
Current Fund Size
$2B

Karan Mehandru is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Karan Mehandru's Investments On Record (24)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal 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: Laura Rippy (Alumni Ventures ), Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures), Vivek Ranadive (Bow Capital), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund)
Clerk
Series BJan 2024$30M
Series AMar 2023$15M
$55M
Co-investors: Reid Christian (CRV), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Christian Bach, Guillermo Rauch
Deepgram
Series BNov 2022$47M
$88M
Co-investors: Zach DeWitt (Wing Venture Capital), Deepak Ravichandran (Alkeon Capital), 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 Investment Advisers)
Forethought
Series CDec 2021$65M
$120M
Co-investors: Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Robert Downey Jr (Footprint Coalition), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Ben Casnocha (Village Global), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Axiom Partners), Kelvin Beachum Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Trevor McFedries, Andy Coravos, Baron Davis, Mathilde Collin

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