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Venky Harinarayan

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Prior to founding Kosmix, Venky Harinarayan and co-founded Junglee, one of the first shopping search engines. They later sold it to Amazon in 1998 for 250 million.

He later started Cambrian Ventures which has invested in Internet companies such as Efficient Frontier, Kaltix (acquired by Google), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper), Transformic (acquired by Google), TheFind, and Aster Data.

His latest venture is Kosmix a vertical search engine.

Recent Milestones

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  Venky Harinarayan invested in Qubole. (4/24/13)
  Posted 4/25/13 at 4:24am via finsmes.com
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  Venky Harinarayan invested in Trifacta. (1/1/12)
  Posted 10/4/12 at 11:11am via gigaom.com
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  Venky Harinarayan invested in PunchTab. (11/8/11)
  Posted 11/8/11 at 6:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  Venky Harinarayan invested in Joyus. (8/1/11)
  Posted 8/1/11 at 9:14pm via businessinsider.com
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  Venky Harinarayan invested in PunchTab. (5/31/11)
  Posted 5/31/11 at 7:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Venky Harinarayan invested in Glooko. (11/1/10)
  Posted 11/9/11 at 8:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Venky Harinarayan invested in Giga Omni Media. (11/14/07)
  Posted 2/11/08 at 7:14pm via gigaom.com
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  Venky Harinarayan added a position as Founding Partner at Cambrian Ventures.
  Posted 7/13/07 at 12:06am
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  Venky Harinarayan added a position as Co-Founder at Kosmix.
  Posted 12/23/07 at 9:55am

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Qubole Completes $7M Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
2. Why Trifacta is teaching humans and data to work together (gigaom.com) [edit]
3. Social Loyalty Platform PunchTab Raises $4.4 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Video Shopping Startup Joyus Raises $7.9 Million From Accel Partners (businessinsider.com) [edit]
5. Social Loyalty Platform PunchTab Raises $850K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]