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Sherpalo Ventures

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Sherpalo is a mentor capital firm that supports early-stage disruptive new technologies.

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01.01.2000

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Description

Sherpalo Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in technology, cloud, e-commerce, and internet service sectors. They guide and mentor exceptional entrepreneurs in taking their disruptive ideas and technology and turning them into successful businesses. Sherpalo works with only a few outstanding teams each year, providing assistance in identifying and hiring key management personnel, making the right product choices, defining and adapting business models to changing market conditions, identifying appropriate market entry points, securing early customer wins, building momentum from a standing start, generating international growth, and providing an independent and pragmatic voice of reason. Founded in 2000, Sherpalo Ventures is based in Menlo Park, California, and maintains an additional office in Mumbai, India.
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Ram Shriram
Ram Shriram

Ram Shriram

Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior to that, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.

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Sherpalo Ventures
Sherpalo Ventures

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Ram Shriram

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Ram Shriram

Ram Shriram

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Krishna Vinjamuri

Krishna Vinjamuri

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