About
Sherif Kottapurath is Managing Partner at Mount Judi Ventures with over 40 years in the IT industry. He was previously CTO of Sun Microsystems and was among the earliest employees at Wipro, where he established the US service business for the R&D team and holds several patents. He is also a serial entrepreneur, serving as CEO of POSibolt and founder and chairman of Rehbar Financial Consultants, and is a 1982 graduate of BITS, Pilani.
Experience
- Mount Judi VenturesManaging Partnercurrent2017 — presentBengaluru Area, India
- Staqu TechnologiesBoard Membercurrent2022 — presentGreater Delhi Area
- InnAccelBoard Membercurrent2020 — presentBengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Rehbar Financial ConsultantsChairman of Boardcurrent2014 — presentBengaluru
- POSiboltArchitect2008 — 2023
- icalibrator training pvt. ltd.CEO2006 — 2023
- Sun Microsystems, IndiaCTO2000 — 2005
- Sun Microsystems, IndiaSr staff engineer1992 — 2000
- Wiprotechnical manager1982 — 1992
- Wiprosoftware engineer, manager1982 — 1992
Education
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science, PilaniB.E, E.E.E1977 — 1982
- St Thomas CollegePDC1975 — 1977
- Model High School1972 — 1975
Skills & more
PaaS40Product Management83Retail ERP6Delivering Technical Training37Linux47Unix66ERP14C6Consulting32Multithreading16Solaris40Device Drivers26
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AlgorithmsPre-salesCoachingSolution ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingAgile MethodologiesEnterprise ArchitectureMobile ApplicationsArchitecturesAgile Project ManagementSaaSLanguages English · Hindi · Malayalam · Urdu
From Sherif's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani89
SomnathTechnology Partner and Chief Data Scientist at Clear VenturesSanjot MalhiPartner at NorthzoneRishabh KaulVenture Partner at Hoxton VenturesSanjeev KumarVenture Partner at FusionYash SankrityayanManaging Partner, Southeast Asia at Jungle VenturesSiddharth DhankharPrincipal at Lightbox
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Shared employers
Also worked at Staqu Technologies1
Also worked at InnAccel1
Also worked at Sun Microsystems, India119
Garry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorGlen AndersonPartner at Monta Vista CapitalPatrik BackmanGeneral Partner at OpenOceanDeny KhoungPortfolio Support at 8VCZack UrlockerInvestor at Index VenturesNick CheethamGTM and Culture Expert at Notion Capital
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Also worked at Wipro36
Sumit JoharAdvisor at Clear VenturesVignesh RavikumarInvestor at Sierra VenturesDipanjan BasuCo-Founder & Partner at Fireside Ventures Advisory LlpSiddharth GuptaVP - Finance at Fireside Ventures Advisory LlpArpit BeriManaging Partner, India at Jungle VenturesChetan RanaCFO at Titan Capital
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Investments
Board seats
InnAccel TechnologiesStaqu Technologies
Per the firm's website.
Colleagues at Mount Judi Ventures
Ajish Rahman
Investment Associate at Mount Judi Ventures
C.H. Abdul Raheem
Investor at Mount Judi Ventures
Dr. Sridhar Mitta
Advisory Board at Mount Judi Ventures
Ebaad Momin
Partner at Mount Judi Ventures
Geoff "Chester" Woolley
Advisory Board at Mount Judi Ventures
Imad Shariff
Manager - Growth at Mount Judi Ventures
Kazi Arif Zaman
Investment Committee at Mount Judi Ventures
Mobeen Batla
Investment Associate at Mount Judi Ventures