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KANWAL REKHI
Managing Partner
Venture Investor since 1994
Operating Experience: 3-time CEO and first Indian American
Founder and CEO to IPO on NASDAQ
32
No. of companies
Invested
$9.9B
Total amount
Invested
7
No. of Successful
exits
5x
Return on Capital
Kanwal was the first Silicon Valley Indo-American Founder and CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ. He then became high profile super-angel while co-founding and leading TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) into the largest global mentoring network for Indian entrepreneurs. Subsequently he was a founding Managing Director at Inventus Capital. He has served on dozens of corporate boards.He earned a BSEE from IIT-Bombay and an MSEE along with Honorary Doctorate from Michigan Tech in both Engineering and Business.
He also a philanthropic leader and founded the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology at IIT-Bombay and the Kanwal and Ann Rekhi Hall, which houses the College of Computing, at Michigan Technological University. He has served on many nonprofit boards and is currently a Board member of RAND Corp Center for Asia Pacific Policy.
INVESTMENTS:
Ambit (ACQ: Cadence)
Book Surge (ACQ: AMZN)
Cybermedia (IPO + ACQ)
Espresso Logic (ACQ: CA Technologies)
Exodus (IPO)
Genwi (ACQ: Persistent)
Health AtoZ (ACQ: United Health)
Instantis (ACQ: Oracle)
Intellivision (ACQ: Nortek)
Kaboodle (ACQ: Hearst Media)
Metamata (ACQ: WebGain)
NetMagic (ACQ: NTT)
NexTag (ACQ: Providence)
Pinnacle Systems (IPO)
Placeware (ACQ: Microsoft)
Poshmark (IPO)
RedEnvelope (IPO: REDE)
Rightworks (ACQ: ICG)
Sensys (ACQ: Thermawave)
Sierra Atlantic (ACQ: Hitachi)
Statx (ACQ: TapClicks)
Zeitnet (ACQ: Cabletron)