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Manju Rajashekhar

Investor

Venture Partner at Storm Ventures

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.

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Experience

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

Education

  1. Stanford UniversityMasters, Computer Science2005 — 2007

Skills & more

Git14Memcached5Distributed Systems17Software Engineering8Open Source7Software Development11Distributed File Systems3Bash1Scalability8Amazon Web Services (AWS)Unix1Objective-C
+11 moreShell ScriptingFile SystemsRedisVirtualizationScalaSearch Engine TechnologyLinuxCPythonEntrepreneurshipAlgorithms

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Same school

Also attended Stanford University1,726

Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital

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Shared employers

Also worked at InvestInData2

Dan CahanaInvestor at GGV CapitalOren YungerInvestor at GGV Capital

Also worked at Etsy23

Jim BreyerFounder & CEO of Breyer CapitalDanny RimerPartner at Index VenturesMike ArpaiaComputer scientist working on machine learning and data infrastructureCameron McGinnInvestor at GreycroftSimon LeveneCo-founder and Partner at Mosaic VenturesAlbert WengerHeading towards the knowledge age

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Also worked at Blackbird Technologies, Inc1

Chuck EesleyFund Advisor at TSVC

Also worked at VMware82

Martin CasadoGeneral Partner at Andreessen HorowitzJavier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesJob SimonVenture Partner and CTO at Monta Vista CapitalHemamAdvisor at Clear VenturesTejAdvisor at Clear VenturesBogomil BalkanskyHome chef and food blogger, venture capital partner, and wildlife photographer

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Colleagues at Storm Ventures

Abby Kearns
Investor 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