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Sri Viswanath

Investor

General Partner at Coatue Management

Palo Alto, California, United States

Writes $1M – $20M checks

About

Sri Viswanath, a former Atlassian CTO, offers uncommon hands-on engineering and product expertise for a hedge-fund-affiliated venture investor, advocates open-source AI, and helps Stability AI with hires and company building.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningConsumerData & InfrastructureFintechSaaS

Experience

  1. SycamoreFounder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
  2. Coatue ManagementSr. Advisorcurrent2025 — present
  3. Coatue ManagementManaging Director/head of ventures division2023 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Coatue ManagementGeneral Partner2022 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  5. SelfAngel Investor and Advisorcurrent2016 — present
  6. SplunkBoard Member2019 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  7. AtlassianChief Technology Officer2016 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  8. Five9Advisor2018 — 2019United States
  9. SendGridMember Board Of Directors2017 — 2019
  10. Skyhigh NetworksAdvisor2012 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  11. GrouponCTO & SVP of Engineering and Operations2013 — 2015Palo Alto, CA
  12. VMwareVP R&D Mobile Computing2012 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
  13. Glam MediaSVP, Eng and GM of Publisher Products2011 — 2012
  14. NingSVP, Engineering and Operations2011
  15. NingVP of Engineering and Operations2009 — 2011
  16. NingDirector of Engineering2008 — 2009
  17. Sun MicrosystemsSr. Engineering Manager1999 — 2008
  18. SiemensSoftware Engineer1996 — 1997

Skills & more

Scalability50Distributed Systems53Engineering Management9Big Data4Technical Leadership7Hadoop9Cloud Computing42Agile Methodologies75SaaS11Software Development45Linux6Perl3
+12 moreRubyJavaScriptSoftware EngineeringEnterprise SoftwarePythonAJAXJavaRESTSolarisOpen SourceSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Product Management

From Sri's professional profile.

Colleagues at Coatue Management

Abhi Srinivas
Investor at Coatue Management
Andy Chen
General Partner at Coatue Management
Caryn Marooney
Investor at Coatue Management
Dan Rose
Chairman at Coatue Management
Jade Lai
Investor at Coatue Management
Jaimin Rangwalla
Investor at Coatue Management
Kris Fredrickson
Managing Partner at Coatue Management
Luca Schmid
General Partner at Coatue Management

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sri Viswanath?
Sri Viswanath, a former Atlassian CTO, offers uncommon hands-on engineering and product expertise for a hedge-fund-affiliated venture investor, advocates open-source AI, and helps Stability AI with hires and company building.
Where does Sri Viswanath work?
Sri Viswanath is General Partner at Coatue Management.
What does Sri Viswanath invest in?
Sri Viswanath invests in AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Fintech, SaaS.
What check size does Sri Viswanath write?
Sri Viswanath typically writes checks of $1M – $20M.
Where did Sri Viswanath go to school?
Sri Viswanath studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Stanford Executive Program, General Management and Leadership); Stanford University (MS, Management); Clemson University (MS, Computer Science).

Same school

Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,377

Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberPeter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Hunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at Homebrew

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Also attended Stanford University2,000

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

+ 1,994 more

Also attended Clemson University33

Satish DharmarajManaging Director at Redpoint VenturesJustin LedbetterChief Operating Officer, Marlan Space at Cortado VenturesHattie DuplechainPrincipal Consultant, Operations and Impact Measurement at The Innovation SpaceEvan KesslerLead Software Engineer at PeakSpan Capital PartnersStewart WhitmireSenior Vice President, Atlantic Packaging at New Earth VenturesAndrew DietrichVice President, Fund Accounting at Harbert Growth Partners

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Shared employers

Also worked at Sycamore5

Calvin ChinManaging Partner at E14 FundDavid KwonPartner at Abstract VenturesAlex RenFounding Partner at FellowsSteven SyverudPartner at AI FundAnand ChowdharyFounder/CTO/CPO at FirstQuadrant

Also worked at Splunk37

Ishan PherwaniAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersJohn ConnorsManaging Partner at Ignition PartnersDavid HornikFounder of Lobby CapitalDr. Christian GonzalezInvestor at Planet A VenturesAthena KimOperations / Finance at Standard CryptoAmy ChangFounder, Accompany at Decibel Partners

+ 31 more

Also worked at Five97

Jai DasPartner, President at Sapphire VenturesDave DeWaltFounder, Managing Director, CEO at NightDragonAnand ChandrasekaranManaging Partner at Celesta CapitalCallan SchebellaProduct at Tidal VenturesRoger VenningEngineering at Tidal VenturesSudhakar RamakrishnaAdvisory Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures

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Also worked at Ning3

Steve VassalloInvestor at Foundation CapitalTommy TsaiManaging Partner at Locus VenturesJoseph LaiFounder at Bentocart