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Vivek Mehra is a General Partner at August Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in innovative technology companies. Vivek's areas of interest include data center technologies, infrastructure software, SaaS, networking, security, and storage. Prior to joining August Capital, Vivek co-founded Cobalt Networks in 1996. As CTO & VP of Product Development, Vivek developed the first successful server appliance products culminating in a successful IPO and acquisition by Sun Microsystems for $2B.

General Partner @ Vivek Mehra is a General Partner at August Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in innovative technology companies. Vivek's areas of interest include cloud computing, infrastructure software, SaaS, networking, security, and storage. Founded in 1995, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. These companies represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion and generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. August Capital has $2 billion under management, and has invested in more than 100 companies including Atheros, Cobalt Networks, Mavenir Systems, Postini, Seagate, Shopping.com, Splunk, Silicon Image, and Zulily. Recent investments range from $500,000 to $130 million in information technology businesses from semiconductors to ecommerce. The firm’s partners have also invested in a number of groundbreaking technology companies, including Actel, Adaptec, Compaq, Grand Junction, Intuit, Linear Technology, Microsoft, MMC Networks, Skype, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Symantec, and Visio. August Capital is located in Menlo Park, California. From February 2003 to Present (12 years 11 months) Board Member, Investor @ Kentik is a fully automated, SaaS-based, big data service for network visibility, DDoS detection, and infrastructure optimization. From 2015 to Present (less than a year) Board Member, Investor @ SaaS security offering to detect and remediate breaches on enterprise SaaS applications and infrastructure. From 2015 to Present (less than a year) Board Observer, Investor @ Leading pure-play OpenStack company.Mirantis delivers all the software, services, training and support needed for running OpenStack From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Board Member, Investor @ Celect provides retailers with unprecedented insight in to how customers choose and helps retailers determine 'what to put where' based on customer buying patterns. From 2014 to Present (1 year) Board Member, Investor @ SaaS configuration monitoring to discover, track, and control environment changes in the datacenter or the cloud. From 2014 to Present (1 year) Board Member, Investor @ AppFormix is building a revolutionary new product to enhance application performance in software defined data-centers. From 2013 to Present (2 years) Board Member, Investor @ ThreatMetrix is a SaaS based fraud prevention platform for financial institutions and online retail industry. Uses comprehensive data collection, big data analytics and a global trust network to provide unmatched security and fraud prevention. From 2012 to Present (3 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of carrier grade next generation IP based messaging infrastructure for 4G/LTE deployments. From 2011 to Present (4 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of business analytics SaaS platform providing actionable insights for optimizing brick and mortar store performance. From 2011 to Present (4 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of hybrid HD/SSD storage appliances simplified from the ground up to optimize storage deployments, manageability and licensing. From 2010 to Present (5 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of leading Web Content Management Platform powering more than 700,000 web sites worldwide. From 2008 to Present (7 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of software to optimize storage bottlenecks in virtual server environments. Acquired by VMWare in March 2013. From 2009 to 2013 (4 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of email data protection, archiving, and regulatory compliance software. Acquired by Iron Mountain. From 2009 to 2009 (less than a year) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of affordable enterprise class network and application management software. Acquired by Quest Software. From 2007 to 2009 (2 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of EMI reducing clock distribution ICs. Acquired by ON Semiconductors. From 2006 to 2009 (3 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of data leakage prevention security appliances. Acquired by McAfee. From 2006 to 2008 (2 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of identity and access management software. Acquired by IBM. From 2005 to 2007 (2 years) Board Member, Investor @ Developer of enterprise-class layer 7 multi-protocol NAS switch that aggregates independent NAS servers and provides advanced manageability features to the overall NAS storage system. Acquired by Cisco. From 2003 to 2007 (4 years) Board Member, Investor @ Iridigm designed and built revolutionary MEMs based reflective displays for mobile device applications. Acquired by Qualcomm in 2004 and is the basis of the Mirasol displays by Qualcomm. From 2004 to 2004 (less than a year) Advisor @ Developer of network access control software and appliances. Acquired by Cisco. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Board Member @ Developer of SSL based VPNs. Acquired by Citrix. From 2000 to 2004 (4 years) VP/GM Cobalt Business Unit @ VP/GM of the Cobalt Business Unit and a member of Sun's Technical Architecture Counsel. From January 2001 to August 2002 (1 year 8 months) Co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, VP Product Development @ Developed the first successful server appliance products for the SMB and hosting market. Products sold in over 80 countries. Very successful IPO. Acquired by Sun Microsystems for $2B. From October 1996 to December 2000 (4 years 3 months) R&D Manager @ Engineering Manager and architect for Pippin, one of the first internet enabled set top boxes. Engineering Manager and architect for a second generation tablet Newton. From February 1992 to August 1996 (4 years 7 months) Member Technical Staff @ Worked on audio subsystem and performance modeling for the Indy workstation. From 1991 to 1992 (1 year) Principal Engineer @ Designer for graphics accelerator, memory cards and led performance analysis and signal integrity analysis for MIPS based DECstation line of workstations. From 1988 to 1991 (3 years)

MS, Computer Engineering @ Iowa State University From 1986 to 1988 BS, Electronics @ Punjab Engineering College From 1982 to 1986 Vivek Mehra is skilled in: SaaS, Enterprise Software, Data Center, Entrepreneurship, Storage, Venture Capital, E-commerce, Servers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cisco Technologies, Network Security, Management, Product Development, Networking, Infrastructure