Where does Manju Rajashekhar work?

Manju Rajashekhar is Venture Partner at Storm Ventures.

Where did Manju Rajashekhar go to school?

Manju Rajashekhar studied at Stanford University (Masters, Computer Science).

Manju Rajashekhar

Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Rajashekhar is co-founder and CEO of Mad Labs Inc. He previously spent eight years at Etsy leading organizations across buyer-facing and platform teams including Search, Ads, Recommendations, and ML Enablement. Earlier, he co-founded Blackbird AI, a search and deep learning company acquired by Etsy, and was part of Twitter's early engineering team where he led the development of caching systems that were open-sourced as industry-standard tools. He holds a Computer Science degree from Stanford with a specialization in systems and algorithms.

Experience

Mad Labs IncCo-founder & CEOcurrent2026 — present
Storm VenturesEIRcurrent2025 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
InvestInDataAdvisor & Investorcurrent2024 — present
EtsyVice President of Engineering2019 — 2024
EtsyVice President of Engineering2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
EtsyVice President of Engineering2019 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
EtsySenior Director of Engineering2017 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
EtsyDirector of Engineering2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
Blackbird Technologies, IncCo-Founder & CTO2013 — 2016Menlo Park
TwitterTech Lead of the Caching System | Head of Caching Infra2010 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
VMwareVMware File System2007 — 2010San Francisco Bay Area
MicrosoftDistributed File System Research2006Greater Seattle Area
NetscalerSoftware Engineer2003 — 2005

Skills & more

Git14Memcached5Distributed Systems17Software Engineering8Open Source7Software Development11Distributed File Systems3Bash1Scalability8Amazon Web Services (AWS)Unix1Objective-C

+11 more

Shell ScriptingFile SystemsRedisVirtualizationScalaSearch Engine TechnologyLinuxCPythonEntrepreneurshipAlgorithms

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Colleagues at Storm Ventures

Ahmed Al-Bahar

Entrepreneur in Residence at Storm Ventures

Alex Mendez

Managing Director Emeritus at Storm Ventures

Arun Penmetsa

Partner at Storm Ventures

Christian Weniger

Venture Partner at Storm Ventures

Daniel von Devivere

Venture Scout at Storm Ventures

David Somers

Partner at Storm Ventures

Emily Moskowitz

Entrepreneur in Residence at Storm Ventures

Erik Meijer

Venture Scout at Storm Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Who is Manju Rajashekhar?: Rajashekhar is co-founder and CEO of Mad Labs Inc. He previously spent eight years at Etsy leading organizations across buyer-facing and platform teams including Search, Ads, Recommendations, and ML Enablement. Earlier, he co-founded Blackbird AI, a search and deep learning company acquired by Etsy, and was part of Twitter's early engineering team where he led the development of caching systems that were open-sourced as industry-standard tools. He holds a Computer Science degree from Stanford with a specialization in systems and algorithms.
Where does Manju Rajashekhar work?: Manju Rajashekhar is Venture Partner at Storm Ventures.
Where did Manju Rajashekhar go to school?: Manju Rajashekhar studied at Stanford University (Masters, Computer Science).