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Entrepreneurs supporting entrepreneurs
We Believe That Great Entrepreneurs Change The World for The Better
ABOUT
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SVQ-GO is a $100M Series A opportunity fund led by Silicon Valley founders who've built companies to IPO and backed seven unicorns.
Our angel syndicate, SVQ, leads fully financed seed rounds up to $2.5M; SVQ-GO adds a small check to secure board seats and super pro-rata rights.
The logic is venture's Power Law: ~10% of companies drive 90% of returns. So we keep under 20% of the fund in seed risk and reserve 80% to double down on the winners — as we did with Poshmark, growing 6% to over 10% ownership by IPO.
Although we can't respond to all submissions, if you're a first-time entrepreneur seeking Seed / Series A funding for a US-incorporated early-stage technology business please share details using the contact form.
TEAM
Manu brings deep experience building digital consumer businesses and the ongoing consumerization of business software. He has supported founders at Vivu (ACQ: Polycom), Dhingana (ACQ: rd.io), Genwi (ACQ: Persistent), Disco (ACQ: CultureAmp), Poshmark (IPO), FarFaria (Acq: JumpStart), j2play (ACQ: EA), Credit Sesame and many more.
Manu is currently on the Boards of Flam, Talview and Out of the Blue. Manu co-founded Excelerate.it, dedicated to helping early-stage startups scale by connecting Founders with decision makers at Global 5000 corporations.
Prerana Vaidya brings 25+ years across technology, investing, and operating roles, focused on scaling climate, agrotech, sustainability, and deep-tech ventures. She is General Partner at Reaction Catalyst Fund, a Stanford-affiliated impact fund. Earlier she worked in tech investment banking at UBS, led business development at Philips, and founded and scaled Kidizens, a LEGO-based civic learning platform for children.
She sits on the strategy and finance team at Networks for Humanity, driving global adoption of open-source digital public infrastructure. She holds an MBA from NYU Stern, a Master's in Computer Science from Iowa State, and completed Stanford GSB's executive program.
Raju Reddy is the founder and former CEO of Sierra Atlantic, a company that grew to be a best-in-class global services company over a period of 17 years before being acquired by Hitachi. Previously, Raju spent 10 years at Intel. He enjoys working with young entrepreneurs and mentoring to build great global companies.
Raju currently serves on the board of Eltropy, Flam, HealthCube and Seclore. Raju is currently a Board member of RAND Corp Center for Asia Pacific Policy, FalconX, and EnActe Arts.
BV is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and angel Investor. A successful serial entrepreneur, BV was the Founding investor & CEO of NetScaler, pioneering the concept of Application Delivery, ultimately acquired by Citrix for $325M where BV served as Group VP and GM for Citrix’s Application Networking division.
Prior to Netscaler, BV was Co-Founder & CTO of Exodus communications, pioneering the concept of cloud hosting and data centers resulting in a highly successful IPO and $30 billion market cap.
Raj-Ann Rekhi Gill is excited to put her 20+ years in nonprofit programming and fundraising to work as Operating Partner at SVQ, where she manages the day-to-day operations.
During her nonprofit career she worked for a wide range of organizations such as The Asia Society and Museum, American India Foundation and NEXUS in New York as well as San Jose Museum of Art and India Community Center in Silicon Valley.
Mansi is an engineer-turned-lawyer-turned-investor with a 20+ year career across technology and capital. She started by writing software for satellite and missile systems, made equity partner at Kilpatrick Townsend handling IP, antitrust, and deep-tech litigation for Fortune 500 enterprises and venture-backed startups, and has been an active angel investor across the SVQ ecosystem.
She carries the perspective that comes from years in those rooms: a different read on risk than most operators have, and a higher tolerance for it. For founders, Mansi is the partner who can talk through a product architecture decision, a board dynamic, and a thorny legal question in the same conversation.
Ricardo Araujo is PhD in AI, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, and former data science advisor to Google supporting nearly 50 M&A decisions. He now serves as Partner, AI and Data Science at SVQ. He is considered amongst the top AI and Data-Scientists in the world.
With over 18 years of experience in academia and industry, he specializes in the practical applications of artificial intelligence and helps startups leverage AI technologies to achieve their strategic goals.
Kanwal was the first Silicon Valley Indo-American Founder and CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ. He then became high profile super-angel while co-founding and leading TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) into the largest global mentoring network for Indian entrepreneurs.
Subsequently he was a founding Managing Director at Inventus Capital. He has served on dozens of corporate boards. He earned a BSEE from IIT-Bombay and an MSEE along with Honorary Doctorate from Michigan Tech in both Engineering and Business.
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AI PROPRIETARY TOOLS DRIVING ALPHA
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WE LOOK FOR EXPONENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Deep IP
Deep IP or other competitive advantages that creates moats around your business and enable you to win in the long run.
Big Markets
If we’re going to work hard on something together, let’s burn the midnight oil to create something that can be HUGE!
Hard Problems
We’re attracted to companies that are solving hard problems. Not Riemann Hypothesis kind of hard, but close is good.
Vision
Exceptional humans with big visions. We love it when our minds are blown and an entrepreneur has discovered something that changes the way we look at what is possible.
Big Impact
While we’re not an “Impact fund”, we do appreciate the market power of positive change and believe that technology can be a multiplier for good, and better businesses.
Early Stage
We write first checks, but our sweet spot is Seed where there’s a core team in place and a product or service in market, or about to be.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
MANISH CHANDRA
Founder & CEO
This is my third company backed by the guys at SVQ. Beyond the investment, their unique understanding of how to build new fast-growth companies, and the level of trust between us has been invaluable.
SAIKIRAN CHANDHA
Founder & CEO
We're building the world's largest collaboration platform for research. The support from SVQ is incredibly valuable, but perhaps more importantly the partners' experience having built social networks helped us deliver on our brand promise.
SHOURYA AGARWAL
Founder & CEO
It's very rare to find believers who just don't back dreamers but work alongside almost 24*7 to make them great leaders and help them hands-on build great companies.
Manu and Raju have helped with hiring, KPIs, growth workshops and more.
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THE GROUNDBREAKER
Dubbed the “Godfather of the Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia” by Fortune magazine, Rekhi was the first Indian to take a venture backed company on the US stock exchange. He rubbed shoulders with luminaries such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison on his meteoric ascent in the tech industry.
He went on to advise Presidents and Prime Ministers on culture-shifting policies, has invested in over 100 startups including exits like Exodus, Poshmark, and RedBus, and is perhaps best known for his work inspiring and launching the careers of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs through the organization he co-founded - TiE.
I’ve known Kanwal since our days at Novell, and he’s always stood out for making bold calls long before they became conventional wisdom. Immigrants like him have shaped the DNA of Silicon Valley, and this book provides a firsthand account of how that transformation took place.
Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures; former CEO, Google
