Vizay Kotikalapudi
InvestorPrincipal at Riverwood Capital · Board director at Spycloud
San Francisco Bay Area
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About
Vizay Kotikalapudi is a Principal at Riverwood Capital. Before joining the firm, he held product management and product marketing roles in Symantec's Enterprise Security Group, and earlier worked in engineering, sales engineering, and product management at Trust Digital, a mobile security startup later acquired by McAfee. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Technology from Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, and an MS from Oklahoma State University.
Board director at Spycloud
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Spycloud's investors · 5
Centana Growth PartnersSan Francisco · $10M – $50M checks · since 2023M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Seattle · $100K – $10M checks · since 2023March Capital PartnersSanta Monica · since 2023Riverwood CapitalMenlo Park · $25M – $250M checks · since 2023Silverton PartnersAustin · $200K – $2M checks · since 2023
Co-founders at Spycloud
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Edward RossExecutive Officer, Director
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Alen PuzicDirector
Experience
- Riverwood CapitalPrincipalcurrent2024 — present
- Riverwood CapitalVice President2019 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- Riverwood CapitalAssociate2015 — 2019Menlo Park
- LeapXpertInvestor and Board Membercurrent2026 — present
- BigIDInvestor and Board Observercurrent2024 — present
- SpyCloudInvestor and Board Membercurrent2023 — presentAustin, Texas, United States
- AlationInvestorcurrent2021 — present
- DruvaInvestorcurrent2017 — present
- ForgeRockInvestor and Board Observer2020 — 2021
- SymantecGroup Product Manager2012 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- SymantecSr. Product Marketing Manager2010 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
- Trust Digital (McAfee)Product Manager2007 — 2010Washington DC-Baltimore Area
- Trust Digital (McAfee)Sr Sales Engineer, Technical Sales2005 — 2007Washington DC-Baltimore Area
- Trust Digital (McAfee)Senior Software Engineer2003 — 2005Washington DC-Baltimore Area
- TechTrolSoftware Engineer2002 — 2003Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
Mobile Devices62Mobile Enterprise6Mobile Applications26Product Marketing46Product Management99Market Analysis2Pricing1Software Development8Early-stage Startups1Go-to-market Strategy28Enterprise Software61Competitive Analysis17
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Mobile TechnologySoftware EngineeringWirelessCross-functional Team LeadershipStart-upsTelecommunicationsPre-salesAgile MethodologiesStrategyChannel PartnersLanguages English · Telugu
- Certificate in Product Management — Pragmatic Marketing
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Colleagues at Riverwood Capital
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Alex Porto
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Anant Goel
Investor at Riverwood Capital
Brian Rudick
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Caitlin Mitchell
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Chris Varelas
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Emily Rohrbach
Investor at Riverwood Capital
Eric Ma
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Vizay Kotikalapudi?
- Vizay Kotikalapudi is a Principal at Riverwood Capital. Before joining the firm, he held product management and product marketing roles in Symantec's Enterprise Security Group, and earlier worked in engineering, sales engineering, and product management at Trust Digital, a mobile security startup later acquired by McAfee. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Technology from Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, and an MS from Oklahoma State University.
- Where does Vizay Kotikalapudi work?
- Vizay Kotikalapudi is Principal at Riverwood Capital and Board director at Spycloud.
- What boards does Vizay Kotikalapudi sit on?
- Vizay Kotikalapudi holds tracked board seats at Spycloud.
- Where did Vizay Kotikalapudi go to school?
- Vizay Kotikalapudi studied at The Wharton School (Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)); Oklahoma State University (MS, Telecommunications Management); Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (Bachelor of Technology (BTech)).
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