Venkat Bussa
InvestorFounder & Managing Partner at Aurum Venture Partners
Pleasanton, California, United States
About
Investment committee and LPAC member with 20 years of engineering, marketing and entrepreneurship experience, including leading technical marketing for Cisco's high-end routing and optical product lines.
Experience
- Aurum Equity PartnersFounder , CEO & General Partnercurrent2023 — presentPleasanton, California, United States
- Aurum Venture PartnersFounder & Managing Partnercurrent2023 — present
- VU Capital PartnersGeneral Partner2022 — 2023Pleasanton, California, United States
- VU Venture PartnersPartner2020 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
- VU Venture PartnersPartner2020 — 2022
- Centerra Solutions Inc.Founder & CEO2016 — 2022Milpitas, California, USA.
- CiscoThought Leadership: Marketing, Software Engineering, Customer Experience2000 — 2013San Jose, CA
- TechNova Imaging Systems (P) Ltd.Product Management1997 — 1998Greater Hyderabad Area
Skills & more
Routing59Ethernet31Go-to-market Strategy20Cloud Computing53Product Management14Start-ups12IP45Network Architecture7Wireless7Unified Communications5Data Center6QoS6
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Product MarketingSystem ArchitectureBusiness PlanningMPLSTechnical MarketingNetwork VirtualizationVoIPTCP/IPStrategyCisco TechnologiesEmbedded SystemsSaaSLanguages English
From Venkat's professional profile.
Colleagues at Aurum Venture Partners
Iris Chen
Financial analyst at Aurum Venture Partners
J. Skyler Fernandes
Founder & General Partner at VU Venture Partners at Aurum Venture Partners
Kevin Wollenweber
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Datacenter and Provider Connectivity at Cisco at Aurum Venture Partners
Narsi Ayyagari
General Partner at Aurum Venture Partners
Saeed Al Hamli
Independent Director of Yalla Group at Aurum Venture Partners
Shridhar Narayan
CEO-Infrastructure at Hiranandani Group at Aurum Venture Partners
Syed Natif Nawaz
Investor at Aurum Venture Partners
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Venkat Bussa?
- Investment committee and LPAC member with 20 years of engineering, marketing and entrepreneurship experience, including leading technical marketing for Cisco's high-end routing and optical product lines.
- Where does Venkat Bussa work?
- Venkat Bussa is Founder & Managing Partner at Aurum Venture Partners.
- Where did Venkat Bussa go to school?
- Venkat Bussa studied at Harvard University (Alternative Investments); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Executive Program - MAQ 17, Mergers and Acquistions); University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (Venture Capital Executive Program, Venture Capital).
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Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,648
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Shared employers
Also worked at Aurum Equity Partners2
Also worked at VU Capital Partners2
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