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Karan Mehandru
InvestorManaging Director at Madrona Venture Labs · Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group
San Francisco Bay Area
Writes $500K – $10M checks · typically $5M
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About
Karan Mehandru is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, where he leads the firm's first office outside the Pacific Northwest, in Palo Alto, California. He began his investing career doing acceleration-stage investing at Scale Venture Partners, then spent a decade at Trinity focusing primarily on early-stage investing. Most recently he headed venture capital investing at STEADFAST, where he did acceleration and growth-stage investing. Over his career he has worked with companies including Auth0, Outreach, and Cohesity. Auth0, based in greater Seattle, was acquired by Okta for $6.5 billion, while Outreach and Cohesity closed rounds at valuations well over $4 billion. At Madrona he focuses on acceleration and growth-stage company building across North America.
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Deals · 2
OutreachBoard seat
via Madrona Venture Group · filed Jun 2021 · $201M raise
Auth0Board seat
via Madrona Venture Group · filed Jul 2020 · $120.5M raise
Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.
Other disclosed investments
Board seats
Investor
Act-On SoftwareBeautiful.aiClerkCohesityCommerceIQCultivateDeepgramDossForethought Technologies, Inc.FyxerGrowthX AIImpartJama SoftwareJumpCloudKnoeticMileiqPagerDutyPipefyPreactRJMetricsSciFinSendbirdShapedUnstructured TechnologiesWayUpWisdomAIWorklete
Sources: SEC Form D filings · curated public sources.
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Karan Mehandru?
- Karan Mehandru is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, where he leads the firm's first office outside the Pacific Northwest, in Palo Alto, California. He began his investing career doing acceleration-stage investing at Scale Venture Partners, then spent a decade at Trinity focusing primarily on early-stage investing. Most recently he headed venture capital investing at STEADFAST, where he did acceleration and growth-stage investing. Over his career he has worked with companies including Auth0, Outreach, and Cohesity. Auth0, based in greater Seattle, was acquired by Okta for $6.5 billion, while Outreach and Cohesity closed rounds at valuations well over $4 billion. At Madrona he focuses on acceleration and growth-stage company building across North America.
- Where does Karan Mehandru work?
- Karan Mehandru is Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs and Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group.
- What check size does Karan Mehandru write?
- Karan Mehandru typically writes checks of $500K – $10M.
- What boards does Karan Mehandru sit on?
- Karan Mehandru holds tracked board seats at Auth0, Clerk, Impart, Outreach, Unstructured.
- What companies has Karan Mehandru invested in?
- Investments tracked here include Act-On Software, Auth0, Beautiful.ai, Clerk, Cohesity, CommerceIQ, Cultivate, Deepgram, Doss, Forethought Technologies, Inc., Fyxer, GrowthX AI, and 17 more.
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