| Birthplace | Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Queen's University, Bachelor of Science | |
| Business | |
| Stephen M. Ross School of Business, MBA |
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.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| ZenPayroll | 12/12 | Seed | $6.1M | 19 |
| Bluebox | 6/12 | Venture Round | $9.5M | 4 |
| Exec | 5/12 | Seed | $3.3M | 12 |
| Decide.com | 4/11 | Series B | $6M | 4 |
| Callaway Digital Arts | 11/10 | Series A | $6M | 3 |
| Optimizely | 3/10 | Angel | $1.2M | 21 |
| Bump Technologies | 10/09 | Series A | $3.4M | 7 |
| Platial | 2/07 | Series A | $2.6M | 7 |
| Anchor Intelligence | 1/07 | Series A | $2M | 8 |
| Next Jump | 1/06 | Venture Round | $20M | 1 |
| Cleartrip | 1/06 | Venture Round | $3M | 2 |
| StumbleUpon | 12/05 | Seed | $1.5M | 4 |
| Platial | 10/05 | Angel | $800k | 6 |