V.K. Rajaram Overview

  • Primary Position
  • Member of Deal...

  • Primary Industry
  • B2C

  • Med. Deal Size

  • Med. Valuation

V.K. Rajaram General Information

Biography

Mr. V.K. Rajaram serves as Advisor at Lodestar Ventures. Mr. Rajaram serves as Member of Deal Screening Committee at Band of Angels. He serves as a Member of the Deal Screening Committee at Band of Angels. He previously served as a Board Member at Crop One Holdings. He has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, specifically in business transformations, globalization, applications development, implementation, and operations of both a high-growth business and businesses at scale. He joined the Band of Angels in the fall of 2012 and has been making investments in the bookends of the private equity financial chain (seed and pre-IPO) since then through the Band, AngelList, and personal references. Before Intuit, he spent several years at Oracle, where he led various initiatives that saw the transformation of solutions at Oracle from character mode to client-server to web. He was one of the original leaders of Oracle's transformation to an eBusiness, which resulted in the elimination of billions of dollars from its cost structure. Before leaving Oracle, he led the CRM Cloud operations team for a high-growth product that competed with SalesForce.com and was specifically responsible for insourcing and building the company into a 24x7 global organization.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Member of Deal Screening Committee, Band of Angels
Education
University of Bombay, BS (Bachelor of Science)
University of Bombay, MBA (Master of Business Administration)
Gender
Male
Address
  • 750 Battery Street
  • 7th Floor
  • San Francisco, CA 94111
  • United States

V.K. Rajaram Positions (1)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Band of Angels Investor Member of Deal Screening Committee San Francisco, CA Angel Group

V.K. Rajaram Lead Partner on Deals (1)

V.K. Rajaram has been the lead partner on 1 deal. Their latest deal was with DynaOptics, a electronics (b2c) company. The deal was made for on 01-Jan-2015.

Company Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Deal Status Industry Location
DynaOptics 01-Jan-2015 Seed Round Completed Electronics (B2C) Palo Alto, CA

V.K. Rajaram Network (14)

Board Members (8)

Name Company Representing Location From
Crop One (Cultivation) Self Millis, MA

Portfolio Executives (6)

Name Company Role Deal date Location
Kelvin Cheo Ph.D DynaOptics Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer 01-Jan-2015 Palo Alto, CA
Bret Engelkemier DynaOptics Chief Executive Officer & Board Member 01-Jan-2015 Palo Alto, CA
DynaOptics Advisor 01-Jan-2015 Palo Alto, CA
DynaOptics Co-Founder 01-Jan-2015 Palo Alto, CA
DynaOptics Advisor 01-Jan-2015 Palo Alto, CA

V.K. Rajaram Advisory Roles (1)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Lodestar Ventures Investor Advisor San Francisco, CA Venture Capital

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