Tim Guleri
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Occupation(s)Managing director, Sierra Ventures[1]

Tim Guleri is an American venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur. He is the managing director of Sierra Ventures of San Mateo, California.[2][3][4][5] Prior to joining Sierra Ventures, Guleri helped build Scopus Technology[6] and founded Octane Software.[3][2][7]

Early life and education

Tim Guleri received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India.[6][5] He received his master's degree in robotics and industrial engineering from Virginia Tech[8][9] in 1988[3] and was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 2006.[10] He sold books door to door to put himself through graduate school.[6]

Career

In September 1989, Guleri became part of the information technology team at LSI Logic Corporation.[2][3] In 1992, he joined Scopus Technology, a customer relationship management software company,[4] where he was vice president of field operations[8][5][11] until 1996.[2][3] Scopus went public in 1995, and was acquired by Seibel Systems in 1998 for $750 million.[8][12][13]

Guleri founded the ecommerce company Octane Software in 1997.[14][2] He was the CEO of Octane until it sold to Epiphany, Inc. in 2000.[4][11][9] Guleri led the merger of the two companies.[8][5] and served as the executive vice president of Epiphany from March 2000 until February 2001.[6][2][3] He joined Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund, as managing director of the software team in 2001.[4][6][5] At Sierra, Guleri worked with investments in software and open source development. Through his investments from Sierra, he has taken companies Sourcefire and MakeMyTrip public.[9] In February 2014, Shape Security raised $40 million in Series C funding from Sierra Ventures and other funds.[15]

Other activities

During his time at Sierra Ventures, Guleri has led investments and served on the board of directors for companies such as MakeMyTrip.com, an online flight booking service based in India,[7] CodeGreen Networks,[16] Approva,[7] Ventaso, a business software company,[17] Greenplum,[18] Again Technologies,[19] BINA Technologies[20][21] and Sourcefire.[7] He currently sits on the board of directors for companies including Treasure Data,[22][23] LeadGenius,[24] DotNetNuke,[7] and Hired.com, a startup company that aims to make the job search and hiring employees easier.[25]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lizette Chapman (January 12, 2012). "VC Outlook: Sierra Ventures' Guleri On Selective Hyper-Growth". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Aditya Tim Guleri". Bloomberg. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Aditya Tim Guleri". 4-Traders. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Cromwell Schubarth (April 15, 2013). "Q&A: Sierra VC Tim Guleri on his firm's CIO advantage". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Tim Guleri Managing Director, Sierra Ventures". OReilly Media. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Peter Delevett (July 5, 2013). "Elevator Pitch: Tim Guleri Of Sierra Ventures". SiliconBeat. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Jack M. Germain (January 29, 2010). "Startup, Know Thyself: Q&A With Sierra Ventures Managing Director Tim Guleri". ECommerce Times. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Tim Guleri". OReilly Media. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 "Management Team". Foundation's Edge. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Academy of Distinguished Alumni". Virginia Tech. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  11. 1 2 "Tim Guleri". TiE Silicon Valley. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Company News; Siebel to Acquire Scopus for $460 Million". The New York Times. March 3, 1998. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  13. ↑ Cath Everett (March 3, 1998). "Siebel acquires Scopus for $460 million". V3.co.uk. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  14. ↑ Mike Ricciuti (March 15, 2000). "E-commerce software firms combine in $3 billion deal". CNet. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  15. ↑ Primack, Dan. "Deals of the day: Shape Security raises $40 million". Fortune. Fortune. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  16. ↑ "Code Green Networks raises $15M". Silicon Valley Business Journal. January 30, 2006. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Ventaso raises $20 million". San Francisco Business Times. August 6, 2001. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Greenplum hires new CEO, raises $15 million". San Francisco Business Times. February 6, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Again Technologies raises $9.3M". San Francisco Business Times. August 24, 2000. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  20. ↑ Lisa Ward (March 21, 2013). "The Funded: BINA Technologies". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  21. ↑ Rip Empson (March 25, 2013). "With $6.25M In Tow, Bina Technologies Wants To Bring Big Data Insight To Genomic Sequencing". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  22. ↑ Derrick Harris (July 23, 2013). "Treasure Data raises $5M, fuses Hadoop and data warehouse in Amazon's cloud". GigaOm. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  23. ↑ Cromwell Schubarth (July 24, 2013). "Jerry Yang-backed Treasure Data raises $5M". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  24. ↑ Wes Selke (November 13, 2014). "LeadGenius Raises $6M Series A Round Led by Sierra Ventures". Better Ventures. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  25. ↑ Billy Gallagher (March 24, 2014). "Hired Raises $15M Series A At Valuation Around $60M". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
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