Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 26
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Primary Job Title Partner and Managing Director
  • Primary Organization 
    Menlo Ventures
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner
  • Investor Stage  Seed

Venky Ganesan is the Managing Director at Menlo Ventures. Venky joined Menlo Ventures in 2013 and focuses on investments in the consumer and enterprise sectors.

Venky currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Avi Networks, BitSight, Gild, Machine Zone, Rover, Takipi, UpCounsel and Waterline Data Science.

Prior to joining

Menlo, Venky was a Managing Director at Globespan Capital Partners where he was part of the investment team since the firm’s inception. At Globespan, Venky led numerous successful investments including Palo Alto Networks (“PANW), Amobee (Acquired by SingTel for $321 Million), Exeros (Acquired by IBM), Jajah (Acquired by Telefonica for $207 Million), Sendia (Acquired by Salesforce.com), Virident (Acquired by Western Digital for $685 Million) and Trigo (Acquired by IBM). In addition, Venky also led investments or served on the boards of the following private companies: Bityota, Kaminario, Marketlive, Nominum, oDesk, Redfin, Rev, SMSGupshup, and Strongmail. Venky was recognized on the 2013, ’14 and ’15 Forbes Midas List.

Prior to Globespan, Venky was one of the founders of Trigo Technologies and played a critical part in building Trigo into the market leader in the product information management space. IBM acquired the company resulting in a substantial return for all investors.

Venky also previously worked at McKinsey & Co., in the firm’s Los Angeles and Johannesberg offices and at Microsoft where he started his career as a Program Manager.

Venky holds a B.A. degree in Economics-Math from Reed College and a B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science with honors from the California Institute of Technology.

Venky believes strongly in giving back to the community and is chair-elect of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), is Co-President of The India Community Center and a Trustee of Keys School.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 4
Venky Ganesan is the Partner and Managing Director at Menlo Ventures. Additionally, Venky Ganesan has had 4 past jobs including MD at Globespan Capital Partners.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Globespan Capital Partners
MDJun 1, 1998Dec 1, 2012
Trigo Technologies
FounderJun 1999Jul 2001
McKinsey & Company
Business AnalystJun 1996Aug 1998
Microsoft
Program ManagerMay 1993Aug 1994
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 26
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 16
Venky Ganesan holds 26 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Obsidian Security, Board of Directors at Cequence Security, and Board Member at oak9.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Silk
Member of the Board of DirectorsJan 2018
Amobee
Member of the Board of DirectorsMar 2012
GupShup
Member of the Board of Directors
Handle
Member of the Board of Directors
MarketLive
Member of the Board of Directors
Plaxo
Member of the Board of Directors
Nominum
Member of the Board of Advisors
Upwork
Member of the Board of Directors
Virident Systems
Member of the Board of Directors
Machine Zone
Member of the Board of DirectorsMar 2014
Venky Ganesan studied at Reed College and Caltech.
Number of Events 1
Venky Ganesan has participated in 1 event, SaaStr Annual 2018 on Feb 6, 2018.