About
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Keval Desai is Founder & Managing Director at SHAKTI, an early stage tech venture firm. Earlier he was GP at InterWest Partners. Some of his early stage investments include Canva, The RealReal, Pipedrive, Vungle, Gatik.ai, Abacus.ai, Swiftly, Backblaze, Aidaptive, Queenly, Cuyana, Postmates, Zindi, and others. Previously, Desai held product & engineering leadership roles at Google, Digg, Global Village Communications & Tandem Computers. He also co-founded Achex, a venture backed online payment company sold to First Data Corp. He has a BE (Electrical Engineering), MS (Computer Science) & MBA.
Experience
InterWest Partners
View →General Partner · 2011 – present
31Menlo Park, California, United StatesFinance · Venture Capital
SkyDeck Berkeley
View →Advisor
Finance · Incubators
Optimizely
View →Investor · 2010 – present
YC W10M&A1San FranciscoContent · Data Management
ONSET Ventures
View →Principal · 2001 – 2003
31Menlo Park, California, United StatesFinance · Financial Services
Morgan Stanley Tactical Value
View →VC associate
15kAngel Investment · Banking
- Investor · Gfycat2016 – present
- Investor · The RealReal2013 – present
- Investor · Periscope Data2013 – present
- Investor · Pipedrive2011 – present
- Investor · Rixty2011 – present
- Board Observer · Apteligent
- Investor · Aviate
- Investor · Backblaze
- Board Member · Cuyana
- Board Member · Grokker
- Partner · Hownd
- Board Member · Joyus
- Board Member · Polymorph
- Member of the Board of Directors · Tapjoy
- Board Member · Triposo
- Investor · Vidora
- Investor · Wand Labs
Education
- University of California Berkeley · MBA, unknown– 1999
- University of California, Santa Barbara · MS, Computer Science– 1991
- University of Mumbai · BE, Electrical Engineering– 1989
InterWest Partners Portfolio (5)
People at InterWest Partners
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