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Venky Karnam

General Partner at Shift Left Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Venky Karnam is currently a General Partner at Shift Left Ventures, with previous experience as a Venture Partner at Afore Capital. He has successfully invested in companies like ShoprTV and Meesho, showcasing his expertise in pre-seed and series A investments in sectors like Gig Economy and AI technology. His background includes roles at Google, AdMob, and Yahoo, contributing to his strong foundation in infrastructure and search technologies.

Work Experience 

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Shift Left Ventures

  • General Partner

    2023 - Current

Shift Left Ventures is a Preseed fund helping founders with capital and design/engineering support to help them get to their first customer.

shiftleft.ventures
AC

Afore Capital

  • Venture Partner

    2017 - 2022

    Afore Capital is a $300 million fund to support product-oriented founders at the very earliest stage (pre-seed).

Afore Capital is a venture fund that focuses on pre-seed stage exclusively and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

afore.vc

Various

  • Angel Investor

    2010 - 2018

    FamPay (YC S19) Basis (YC S19) Groww.in (YC W18) Meesho (YC W17) Iterable

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Google

  • Ads Infrastructure

    2010 - 2017

    - Integrated AdMob into AdWords and AdSense.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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AdMob

  • Infrastructure

    2006 - 2010

    - Early hire. - AdMob grew from $1M -> $100M ARR - Acquired by Google for $750M

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Yahoo

  • Shopping Search

    2005 - 2006

Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.

Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.

yahoo.com

Education 

Investments 

ShoprTV

Seed

Total funding: $2M

Method Financial

Pre Seed

Total funding: $22M

Gamma.AI

Seed

Total funding amount not yet available

Meesho

Series A

Total funding: $1B

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