Bio

Kumar Sripadam is a technology entrepreneur, business consultant, angel/VC investor and mentor. He has 30+ years of experience in the high technology sector. He has held several senior and executive positions in various startups. Kumar was a Founding Member of Redback Networks, a hugely successful IPO company. He is currently a GP at Elevate Capital and is also the Chair of TiE Angels Silicon Valley. He is also a Charter Member and a past Board member of TiE-Silicon Valley. He is an Executive Committee Member of Arc Angel Fund NYC. He is also a mentor and an advisor at many Silicon Valley entities. He holds an MSEE from Southern Illinois University. He is a member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. He is an active speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship and angel investing. Kumar Sripadam is a Board Observer at Wevo and an advisor at Moesif, Truelark, Diesel Labs, Earthsense, SmartSentry etc. He served on the board of Metacert and Incentive Logic. He is an active investor and an LP in numerous Accelerators, Angel and VC funds, especially YC focused funds. His other non technology investments include IFLY Silicon Valley, IFLY Hollywood, Palmstar Media, SBPacificGroup etc. His current areas of interest are Enterprise and Application software, Hardware, E-Commerce, Network and Cloud Infrastructure, AI/ML, Big Data, IOT, FinTech and Digital Health. As an active investor he has made 75+ individual investments such as Pubnub, Wevo, Paystand, Wanderu, Periscope Data, Iterable, Gatik, Gecko Robotics, Golden, Magic, Balbix, Hayden.ai, Vector Flow, Frore, Bioz, Shyft, Wevo, Cloud Eagle, Persona, Diesel Labs, EarthSense, TrueLark etc. He has had many successful exits as well. Prominent among them include Pipe Drive, Bear Flag Robotics, Synconset, Docusign, Cloudera, Intellivision, Arrayent etc