Team

Founders

Satya Ananthu

Founding Partner

Satya is an Angel Investor from the Seattle area. An alumnus of PSG Tech, Yahoo, and Amazon; he combines his passion for consumer internet technology and rich high-tech experience at companies like Yahoo and Amazon to form a strong thesis for startup investments. He reviewed hundreds of startups and led due diligence for several early-stage companies over the last several years. He primarily invests in early-stage startups that have the potential to disrupt industries and/or improve consumer lives in a positive way; and late-stage companies that have the potential to be future market leaders.

Kalyan Kaki

Founding Partner

18+ years of experience in top Industrial and Technology companies of the world. Expert in Cloud and SaaS fields from the Seattle area, builds Hyperscale cloud for living. Product leader running global programs and partnerships with 10s of millions of budget and 100s of millions in revenue. Learned evaluating companies and opportunities from his dad who is now a retired general manager responsible for reviewing and approving loans for small and medium scale businesses at the biggest bank of India and now combines it with his experience of leading enterprise cloud partnerships to form an investment thesis. Has been an angel investor for the last 10 years and a Pre-IPO investor for the last several years.

Sankara Manepalli

Founding Partner

Sankara is an angel investor, entrepreneur, with working experience at successful startups, world-class technology companies, and best-of-breed educational institutions. His passion is evaluating startups & serving the community through Art of Living & SKY Schools. Sankara graduated in computer science from IIT Kanpur & has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management. He was a founding engineer at IPCell, acquired by Cisco, has patents in communication technology, managed few product lines and business development at Cisco.