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
310 CONNECTIONS
McKinsey & Company Network
140 CONNECTIONS
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business Network
50 CONNECTIONS
University of Mumbai Network
14 CONNECTIONS
UC Santa Barbara 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
$31M
Co-investors: Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Shawn Carolan (Menlo Ventures), Semil Shah (Haystack), Aashay Sanghvi (Haystack), Rachel Holt (Construct Capital), Rick Wagoner, Gokul Rajaram
Felt
SeedAug 2021$5M
$24M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Sunil Sharma (Techstars), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Mike Smith (Footwork), Scott Belsky, Guillermo Rauch, Julia Hartz, Dylan Field, Akshay Kothari, Ed Baker
Swiftly
Series AJul 2020$23M
$240M
Co-investors: Gary Swart (Polaris Partners), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Fabio Lancellotti (Aster Capital), Ugo Catry (Princeville Capital), John Rodkin (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Kwan Yoon (BlueRun Ventures), Vinny Lingham (Multicoin Capital), Mehdi Maghsoodnia (Combustion Ventures), Bobby Brannigan (NextGen Venture Partners), Vivek Garipalli
Abacus.AI
SeedJun 2019$5M
$90M
Co-investors: David Cahn (Sequoia Capital), Mike Volpi (Index Ventures), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Josh Shirazi (Alkeon Capital), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Erica Ruliffson Schultz (Operator Collective), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Mariam Naficy (Heretic Ventures), 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), Dana Settle (Greycroft), Mathias Schilling (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Payam Zamani (One Planet Group), 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), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Ricky Pelletier (Openview Venture Partners), Mitchell Green (Lead Edge Capital)
CrowdBlue
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