Bio
John has been a VC since 1997 and co-founded Inventus with Kanwal in 2007 to help Silicon Valley founders pursue the lean startup model. John has backed several dozen Founding teams resulting in 8 liquidity events with two IPOs. At Inventus he’s on the boards of Activity Hero, Credit Sesame, FarFaria, Motivo.ai, Resilinc, and SysCloud, as was a board member at Vivu (ACQ: Polycom), Dhingana (ACQ: rd.io), Spotzot (ACQ: Valassis), and Sokrati (ACQ: Dentsu). For a decade prior to co-founding Inventus, John was part of the founding team and Managing Director with Scale Ventures (fka BA Ventures) where he had co-invested with Kanwal behind several startups. Prior to venture, John worked for category leading Silicon Valley companies including Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics. Charter Member of TiE.
Career
Inventus Capital Partners |
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BA Venture Partners |
Education
University of California BerkeleyBA
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Walter A Haas School of BusinessMBA in Business Administration
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