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Karan Mehandru

Managing Director at Madrona

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Karan Mehandru is the Managing Director at Madrona, investing in companies at various stages with a focus on sectors like Security and Cloud Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area. Notable highlights include investing in companies like JumpCloud at Series F and being a board member at unstructured.io.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2022 - Current

  • Board Member

    2025

Trek Health builds foundational software that empowers mental health providers.

Raised $2,700,000.00 from Clarence So, Aaron King, Max Altman, Frederic Kerrest, Founder Collective, Lionheart Ventures, Jack Altman, Matt Brezina and Rich Menendez.

  • Board Observer

    2025

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Board Member

    2023

Unstructured is an enterprise ETL tool that automatically transforms complex, unstructured data into clean, structured data for GenAI.

Raised $65,000,000.00 from IBM Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Chet Kapoor, Allison Pickens, Menlo Ventures, Mango Capital, Madrona, NVentures and The New Normal Fund.

  • Board Member

    2023

Clerk develops a software application to provide a sign-up and sign-in page for any website and profile management.

Raised $84,499,976.00 from Stripe, Madrona, CRV and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Board Member

    2016

Auth0 is a cloud identity management SAAS application for the web, mobile, IoT, and internal software.

Raised $332,275,000.00 from Steadfast Capital Management and Employee Stock Option Fund.

  • Board Member

    2016

Outreach is a sales engagement platform that uses AI for predictive analytics as it relates to sales.

Raised $489,018,000.00 from Investlink Holdings, Investlink Holdings and Raison Wealth.

  • Investor

    2020

Zapier is an IT company that provides integrations for web applications for use in automated workflows.

Raised $1,362,949.00 from Steadfast Capital Management and Sequoia Capital.

  • Investor

    2015

Cohesity is a data management technology firm that offers hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, files, and analytics.

Raised $955,000,000.00 from NVIDIA and IBM.

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