Investing Profile

Keval Desai

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General Partner at InterWest Partners
interwest.comSan Francisco, California
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Networks Keval is a member of
Google Network
304 CONNECTIONS
McKinsey & Company Network
138 CONNECTIONS
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business Network
50 CONNECTIONS
UC Santa Barbara Network
13 CONNECTIONS
University of Mumbai Network
13 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
InterWest General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
52

Keval Desai is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Keval Desai's Investments On Record (36)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Kinetic Automation
Series AOct 2023$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital Management), Aashay Sanghvi (Haystack), Rachel Holt (Construct Capital), Semil Shah (Haystack), Rick Wagoner, Gokul Rajaram
Felt
SeedAug 2021$5M
$24M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capitail)), Allison Pickens (The New Normal Fund), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Mike Smith (Footwork), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky, Dylan Field, Akshay Kothari, Ed Baker, Julia Hartz
Swiftly
Series AJul 2020$23M
$240M
Co-investors: Gary Swart (Polaris Partners), Bobby Brannigan (NextGen Venture Partners), Vinny Lingham (Multicoin Capital), Mehdi Maghsoodnia (Combustion Ventures), John Rodkin (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Kwan Yoon (BlueRun Ventures), Fabio Lancellotti (Aster Capital), Ugo Catry (Princeville Capital), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Vivek Garipalli
Abacus.AI
SeedJun 2019$5M
$90M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Mike Volpi (Index Ventures), David Cahn (Sequoia Capital), Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Josh Shirazi (Alkeon Capital), Erica Ruliffson Schultz (Operator Collective), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Mariam Naficy (Heretic Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Elad Gil, Yan-David Erlich
The RealReal
Series GJul 2018$120M
Series EApr 2016$40M
Series DApr 2015$40M
Series CMay 2014$20M
Series BApr 2013$14M
$360M
Co-investors: Maha Ibrahim (Canaan Partners), Mathias Schilling (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Payam Zamani (One Planet Group), Dana Settle (Greycroft), Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (aCrew Capital), Cynthia Ringo
Gfycat
SeedSep 2016$10M
$10M
Co-investors: Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Jai Choi (Tekton Ventures)
Khoros
Series FJun 2016$50M
$130M
Co-investors: Mike Dodd (Silverton Partners), Ricky Pelletier (Openview Venture Partners), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Mitchell Green (Lead Edge Capital)
Crowdpac
Series AJan 2016$6M
SeedJan 2014$3M
$9M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Jillian Manus (Structure Capital), Charles Seely (Hoxton Ventures)

Keval Desai's Experience

VC Associate - MBA Internship Morgan Stanley Venture PartnersPresent
Limited Partner AngelPad LLCPresent
Limited Partner Correlation Ventures2016 - Present
Limited Partner Boost.vc2014 - Present
Partner InterWest Partners2011 - Present
VP Product Digg2010 - 2011
Product Management Director Google2003 - 2009
Principal ONSET Ventures2001 - 2003
Co-founder Achex, Inc1999 - 2000
Associate McKinsey & Company1999 - 1999
Product Manager Global Village Communication1996 - 1997
Software Engineer, Project Manager Tandem Computers Inc.1991 - 1996

Keval Desai's Education

University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business MBA
UC Santa Barbara MS Computer Science
University of Mumbai BE Electrical Engineering