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BirthplaceChennai (Tamil Nadu, India)

Degrees

Queen's University, Bachelor of Science
Business
Stephen M. Ross School of Business, MBA

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Ram Shriram

Ram Shriram is a Managing Director at Sherpalo Ventures, which he founded in 2000.

Ram is a founding board member of Google and 247customer.com. Ram originally worked as an early executive at Netscape, which he joined in 1994. After Netscape, Ram served as president at Junglee, an online comparison shopper, which he sold to Amazon in August 1998.

Plaxo, Zazzle.com and PodShow. Ram serves on the advisory board of Naukri.com, a leading classifieds site in India which has leading marketplaces in jobs, matrimony and real estate serving the Indian market.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
ZenPayroll 12/12Seed$6.1M19
Bluebox 6/12Venture Round$9.5M4
Exec 5/12Seed$3.3M12
Decide.com 4/11Series B$6M4
Callaway Digital Arts 11/10Series A$6M3
Optimizely 3/10Angel$1.2M21
Bump Technologies 10/09Series A$3.4M7
Platial 2/07Series A$2.6M7
Anchor Intelligence 1/07Series A$2M8
Next Jump 1/06Venture Round$20M1
Cleartrip 1/06Venture Round$3M2
StumbleUpon 12/05Seed$1.5M4
Platial 10/05Angel$800k6

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  1. ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Bluebox Raises $9.5M From Andreessen Horowitz & Others For A Stealthy, Disruptive Mobile Security Solution (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Exec, The Mobile App For Errands, Adds Messaging (Oh, And Sam Altman Led Their Round) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Consumer Electronics Shopping Service Decide Raises $6 Million Pre-Launch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  6. Optimizely A/B Tests Its Way To $1.2 Million In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Bump Technologies Confirms Sequoia Funding, Reveals Roster Of Angels. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  10. TechCrunch [edit]
  11. Indian travel site Cleartrip raises $8M from DAG Ventures — because DAG can react within 48 hours (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  12. StumbleUpon May Be For Sale: 50M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. techcrunch.com [edit]
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