Ullas Naik

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Mr. Ullas Naik serves as Founder & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. He founded Streamlined Ventures with a vision of building a thought-leading investment platform rooted in the philosophical belief that founders of companies are the true heroes of entrepreneurial value creation in our society. He is a seasoned venture capitalist, angel investor, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of entrepreneurial and early-stage investment experience across more than 500 companies. At Streamlined, He has led seed investments in almost 20 companies each valued at over $1Bn including iconic companies such as Doordash (IPO), Applovin (IPO), Rappi, Forge (IPO), EasyPost, OpenGov (acquisition), FLYR Labs, Rescale, Flip, Speechify, Medable, Bolt, TubiTV (acquisition), etc. Over the last 25 years, he has seed/angel invested in nearly 150 companies. He is also an investor in numerous venture capital funds. In addition, he helped co-found the full lifecycle investment firm Cota Capital. Before founding Streamlined Ventures, he was a senior member of the investment team for 12 years at Globespan Capital and helped build the firm. They had invested in early-stage rounds of numerous iconic companies, including Palo Alto Networks (IPO), Roku (IPO), Redfin (IPO), UpWork (IPO), BladeLogic (IPO), Virident (acquisition), Q1 Labs (acquisition), Virtusa (IPO), etc.. Before his institutional venture capital investment career, he was a top-ranked Wall Street research analyst at FAC Equities/First Albany. He was recognized by The Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine as a Wall Street All-Star. Before that, he received an MBA degree after starting a chemical trading business in India. He also has a bachelor's degree in organic chemistry.