Aneel Ranadive
Managing Partner at Soma Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2015 - Current
Soma Capital is an SF based early stage venture fund. We invest in SaaS, infra, AI app layer, robotics, and deeptech. Our mission is seeding the next generational superhumans (jobs, gates, zuckerberg, elons etc) who move humanity forward! Since starting in 2015, Soma seeded 30 "unicorns" like Rippling, Ramp, Deel, Cognition, Mercor, Etched, Zeromatter, Rappi, Razorpay, Astranis, Gecko, Solugen, among others. Soma was founded by Aneel Ranadive who built startups + Soma for a combined 20 yrs. Aneel comes from a lineage of entrepreneurship - his father Vivek Ranadive was an immigrant from Mumbai and built Tibco software from 0 to billions in revenue as a profitable, public company (4.3b exit to Vista). Tibco digitized Wall Street in the 90's and scaled to power 80% of Fortune 500 companies. Vivek also seeded and mentored google, yahoo, salesforce, ebay, to steve jobs, and later bought the Golden State Warriors in 2010 and then the Sacramento Kings NBA team in 2013.
Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.
CEO and Cofounder
2013 - 2015
Tag is the best way to stay in touch with close friends. Send a “Tag” with your location to a few friends to let them know what you’re up to. You can attach a picture, message, or both. In one click, they can Tag you back to respond with their own location and can also include a picture and message.
Tag is your digital passport. (Acquired 2015)
Raised $1,155,000.00 from Tim Draper, Mark Cuban, Andy Appelbaum, Eduardo Saverin, Soma Capital and Tom Arrix.
CEO and Cofounder
2010 - 2013
Pinchit is an online scrapbook for your city to share and discover new experiences. The company is backed by great angel investors including Facebook Cofounder Eduardo Saverin and Tim Draper.
Product Manager
2009 - 2010
Led product at Nielsen mobile creating mobile applications for TV shows including Grey's Anatomy and My Generation
Nielsen provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy.
Raised $650,000,000.00.
Analyst
2009 - 2009
Storm Ventures is a venture capital firm focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments.
Director of Business Development
2008 - 2009
Video analytics startup helping advertisers and publishers make decisions on how to optimize and better monetize their video content and ad assets Scaled customer base to companies including Time Warner and Facebook Aquired by Nielsen
CEO and Cofounder
2007 - 2008
Anonymous social network backed by Redpoint Ventures. BoredAt's mission was to compile the collective consciousness of the world and provide communities like schools, companies and interest groups with a platform to share thoughts. BoredAt was founded in 2006 and launched in early 2007 to colleges and companies achieving rapid viral growth as a real-time communication platform.
Investment Banking Analyst
2006 - 2007
Performed analysis and developed operational, financial and valuation models and conducted industry competitive analysis for private & publicly traded companies in the media, telecom and technology industries
Bank of America Neighborhood Builders is a signature philanthropic program that advances economic mobility and nonprofit leadership.
Education
B.S.
2002 - 2006