Shirish Sathaye

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Dr. Shirish Sathaye serves as Partner at Cervin Ventures. He also serves as a General Partner at Formation 8. He also serves as a Board Member, Chairman of the Investment Committee & Member of the Executive and Compensation Committees at Virginia Tech Foundation. He serves as a Board Member at Celona, Privacera, Aviatrix, Bolster, and Flex Logix Technologies. At Cervin, his investment focus is on next-generation enterprise software, SaaS software, AI-powered businesses, wireless and wireline networking, data infrastructure, and systems. For more than 20 years, he has served as a General Partner across several venture firms. Before joining Cervin, he spent 10 years at Matrix Partners; 3 years at Khosla Ventures, and the remainder at Formation 8. Before investing, he spent 15 years as a leader in category-creating technology companies including Alteon Websystems and FORE Systems. He served as a General Partner at Winter Partners. He served as a Board Member at Nyansa, OneID, Cazena, and ZeroStack. He focuses on investments in next-generation enterprise software, cloud-based software, wireless and wireline networking, storage infrastructure, and systems. Before Formation 8, he was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures from 2010 to 2013 and a General Partner at Matrix Partners from 2001 to 2010. His prior investments include Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN), Nutanix, Grandis (acquired by Samsung), Solidcore Systems (acquired by McAfee), Panzura, Kumu Networks, and Vectra Networks. His investing career was preceded by a long operating career at technology companies. He helped build two venture-backed companies, FORE Systems, and Alteon Web Systems, and led the design and development of their core products. Both companies pioneered important new product categories and had very successful IPOs. He ran the Engineering Group at FORE Systems, a pioneer in ATM Switched Networks. FORE went public in 1994 and was eventually sold to Marconi for $4 billion. In 1997 he joined Alteon Web Systems, which created the server-load-balancer product category, as its VP of Engineering and later, its CTO. Alteon went public in 1999 and was acquired by Nortel for $7.8 billion. He began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation first in the Semiconductor group and then in the Network Architecture & Software Group. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSEE from Virginia Tech, and a bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering from IIT-BHU, Varanasi, India.