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Karan Mehandru

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Managing 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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Experience

  1. MadronaManaging Directorcurrent2022 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. DOSSBoard Membercurrent2026 — present
  3. Fyxer AIBoard Membercurrent2025 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
  4. Charta HealthBoard Observercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  5. Impart SecurityBoard Membercurrent2025 — present
  6. Trek HealthBoard Membercurrent2025 — present
  7. WisdomAIBoard Observercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  8. ShapedBoard Membercurrent2024 — present
  9. unstructured.ioBoard Membercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  10. Clerk.comBoard Membercurrent2023 — presentUnited States
  11. DeepgramBoard Observercurrent2022 — present
  12. Auth0Board Membercurrent2016 — present
  13. OutreachBoard Membercurrent2016 — present
  14. ZapierInvestorcurrent2020 — present
  15. CohesityBoard Observercurrent2015 — present
  16. KlaviyoInvestorcurrent2021 — present
  17. JumpCloudInvestorcurrent2021 — present
  18. LucidInvestorcurrent2021 — present
  19. CommerceIQBoard Of Directorscurrent2014 — present
  20. PipefyBoard Membercurrent2016 — present

Skills & more

Cloud Computing29Business Development10CRM1Business Strategy6

From Karan's professional profile.

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

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Other disclosed investments

Sources: SEC Form D filings · curated public sources.

Colleagues at Madrona Venture Labs

Alexandra Estep
Controller at Madrona Venture Labs
Alison McCulloch
Executive Assistant at Madrona Venture Group
Alli Sherwin
Executive Assistant at Madrona Venture Group
An Cayas
Executive Assistant at Madrona Venture Labs
Andrew Leary
IT Support Engineer at Madrona Venture Labs
Anna Baird
Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Labs
Anna Chen
Investor at Madrona Venture Group
Anna Schmitz
Receptionist at Madrona Venture Group

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George Hoyem
Venture Partner at Lavrock Ventures

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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.
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.
Where did Karan Mehandru go to school?
Karan Mehandru studied at Stanford University (Masters in Management Science, Specialization in Technology and Entrepreneurship); Carleton University (Electrical Engineering); George Mason University (Electrical Engineering).

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