| Stanford University, BS and MS | |
| Electrical Engineering |
Bandel L. Carano is the Board Member at Aurora Algae.
Bandel L.Carano, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners in 1985 and became a General Partner in 1987.
Bandel has invested in companies with emphasis on Wireless and Rich-Media communications,
2Wire, Airspan, Avici, CommVerge, CoreTek, Endwave, FiberTower, General Bandwidth, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, MobiTV, NeoPhotonics, Netopia, PictureTel, Plastic Logic, Polycom, Presidio, PulsePoint, Qtera, Sentient Networks, SmartDrive Systems, Tegic, Trapeze, Wellfleet .
Advanced Software Systems, Entropic, FirstRain, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, Tele Atlas, Visto .
Advanced Semiconductors, Actel, Airgo, CommQuest, Kenet, Level 5, NemeriX, Newport Media, nLight, Qpixel, Resonext, SMIC, Solarflare, Stretch, Synaptics, Virata .
Design Automation,
Centric Software, Interconnectix, Parametric, Synopsys Tensilica .
Clean Energy Technologies,
Aurora BioFuels, Boston-Power, eSolar, GreenVolts, NanoH2O, PML, ReliOn, Sundrop Fuels.
Prior to Oak, Bandel joined Morgan Stanley’s Venture Capital Group in 1983.
He was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on high-tech new business development, as well as sponsoring venture investments.
Bandel received BS and MS Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
He currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund.