Vijay Reddy
Director/Board Member at Katana Graph, Inc.
Profile
Vijay brings over a decade of inception and early-stage investing experience in AI and deeptech, from Clear Ventures and Intel Capital.
He had a front-row seat to the rise of AI when neural networks first beat human benchmarks in vision, speech and language.
Vijay has invested across the AI stack from silicon, systems, infrastructure software, data, middleware & tools and applications.
Some of his past investments include Avaamo, AEye (Nasdaq: LIDR), BabbleLabs (Acquired by Cisco), Common Sense Machines, DataRobot, Hypersonix, Joby (NYSE: Joby), Landing.ai, Lilt, Opaque, and SambaNova.
As a former R&D engineer, Vijay enjoys collaborating with leading technical innovators and researchers who are leveraging bold, disruptive ideas with extreme clarity of purpose to build best in class companies.
He takes a founder-first and team-oriented approach and works tirelessly with inception stage entrepreneurs to achieve product market fit and help them scale rapidly.
Vijay began his career as an entrepreneur when he co-founded his first startup after dropping out of his PhD program.
He has also held several senior Business Development and Product Development roles at Broadcom and Intel where he was hired into the Accelerated Leadership Program, designed to groom the next generation of leaders.
A Kauffman Fellow, Vijay received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has a BS & MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with top honors from University of California, Irvine.
Vijay Reddy active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Katana Graph, Inc.
 Katana Graph, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Katana Graph, Inc. is a startup based in Austin, TX that is revolutionizing the way businesses use massive data to solve their biggest challenges. The company offers an all-in-one platform that powers graph queries to analytics, mining, and graph AI. The company is pairing innovations in graph and machine learning to allow timely insights for businesses. The company works closely with customers to identify new ways to make massive data work, by supporting decentralized workloads for graph query, analytics, mining, and AI. The company was founded by Keshav Pingali and Chris Rossbach, with Keshav Pingali serving as the CEO since incorporation. | Director/Board Member | 2020-11-30 |
Mayfield Fund LLC
 Mayfield Fund LLC Investment ManagersFinance Mayfield Fund LLC (Mayfield Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 by Mark Jay Levin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2023-06-30 |
Former positions of Vijay Reddy
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Clear Venture Management LLC
 Clear Venture Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Clear Venture Management LLC (Clear Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Rajeev Madhavan and Christopher J.Rust. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2023-07-30 |
Intel Capital Corp.
 Intel Capital Corp. Investment ManagersFinance Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. | Director/Board Member | 2021-07-31 |
Hypersonix, Inc.
 Hypersonix, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Hypersonix, Inc. engages in the design and development of an artificial intelligence-powered autonomous analytics platform for consumer commerce. The firm offers Hypersonix platform. The company was founded by Prem Kiran Jammalamadaka, Rama Rao, and Gina Becchetti in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2021-07-30 |
Opaque Systems, Inc.
 Opaque Systems, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Opaque Systems, Inc. is an American privacy technology company that specializes in confidential computing for analytics and AI. Opaque Systems' technology is used by organizations such as Ant Group, IBM, Scotiabank, and Ericsson. The company has recently launched Opaque Prompts as a service and has released the code under an open-source license on GitHub. Opaque Systems enables secure analytics and machine learning on encrypted data, allowing users to analyze encrypted data in the cloud using popular tools while ensuring that the data is never exposed unencrypted to the cloud provider or anyone else. The company was founded by Raluca Ada Popa and Ion Stoica, and the CEO is Rishabh Poddar. | Director/Board Member | 2021-07-30 |
Lilt, Inc.
 Lilt, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Lilt, Inc. provides online platform for translation. It also offers linguistic translation services. The company was founded by John DeNero and Spence Green in March 2015 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2021-07-30 |
Training of Vijay Reddy
| The University of Chicago Booth School of Business | Masters Business Admin |
| University of California | Graduate Degree |
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Linked companies
| Listed companies | 2 |
|---|---|
| AEYE, INC. | Electronic Technology |
| JOBY AVIATION, INC. | Electronic Technology |
| Private companies | 15 |
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Clear Venture Management LLC
Clear Venture Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Clear Venture Management LLC (Clear Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Rajeev Madhavan and Christopher J.Rust. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Finance |
Hypersonix, Inc.
Hypersonix, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Hypersonix, Inc. engages in the design and development of an artificial intelligence-powered autonomous analytics platform for consumer commerce. The firm offers Hypersonix platform. The company was founded by Prem Kiran Jammalamadaka, Rama Rao, and Gina Becchetti in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Technology Services |
Opaque Systems, Inc.
Opaque Systems, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Opaque Systems, Inc. is an American privacy technology company that specializes in confidential computing for analytics and AI. Opaque Systems' technology is used by organizations such as Ant Group, IBM, Scotiabank, and Ericsson. The company has recently launched Opaque Prompts as a service and has released the code under an open-source license on GitHub. Opaque Systems enables secure analytics and machine learning on encrypted data, allowing users to analyze encrypted data in the cloud using popular tools while ensuring that the data is never exposed unencrypted to the cloud provider or anyone else. The company was founded by Raluca Ada Popa and Ion Stoica, and the CEO is Rishabh Poddar. | Technology Services |
Common Sense Machines, Inc.
 Common Sense Machines, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Common Sense Machines, Inc. engages in other technology industry group. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Technology Services |
Lilt, Inc.
Lilt, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Lilt, Inc. provides online platform for translation. It also offers linguistic translation services. The company was founded by John DeNero and Spence Green in March 2015 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA. | Technology Services |
Katana Graph, Inc.
Katana Graph, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Katana Graph, Inc. is a startup based in Austin, TX that is revolutionizing the way businesses use massive data to solve their biggest challenges. The company offers an all-in-one platform that powers graph queries to analytics, mining, and graph AI. The company is pairing innovations in graph and machine learning to allow timely insights for businesses. The company works closely with customers to identify new ways to make massive data work, by supporting decentralized workloads for graph query, analytics, mining, and AI. The company was founded by Keshav Pingali and Chris Rossbach, with Keshav Pingali serving as the CEO since incorporation. | Technology Services |
BabbleLabs, Inc.
 BabbleLabs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Babblelabs, Inc. develops technologies for speech processing using deep neural networks and audio signal processing techniques. The company was founded by Chris Rowen, Dror Maydan, Samer L. Hijazi, Raul Casas and Michelle Mao and is headquartered in Campbell, CA. | Technology Services |
Mayfield Fund LLC
Mayfield Fund LLC Investment ManagersFinance Mayfield Fund LLC (Mayfield Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 by Mark Jay Levin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. | Finance |
Intel Capital Corp.
Intel Capital Corp. Investment ManagersFinance Intel Capital Corp (Intel Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of Intel Corp founded in 1991 by Les Vadasz, and Avram Miller. The firm is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. | Finance |
AlienVault, Inc.
 AlienVault, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services AlienVault, Inc. provides security management solutions. It offers open source tools for asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioral monitoring, security intelligence, security information and event management. The company was founded by Julio Casal and Dominique Karg on May 1, 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Technology Services |
Matroid, Inc.
 Matroid, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Matroid, Inc. acts as computer vision company. Its product provides a studio allowing users to monitor streams of video data in the cloud and on edge devices. The company was founded by Reza Zadeh and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
Avaamo, Inc.
 Avaamo, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Avaamo, Inc. designs and develops application software. It provides a mobile application that channels all communications into one secure screen. The firm serves banking, retail healthcare, insurance and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by Sriram Chakravarthy and Rammohan G. Menon in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA. | Technology Services |
Landing.AI (US) Corp.
 Landing.AI (US) Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Landing.AI (US) Corp. develops artificial intelligence solutions for the enterprise. It offers Landing Light, an automated visual inspection for optimizing quality inspection in manufacturing operations. The company was founded by Andrew Ng in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
DataRobot, Inc.
 DataRobot, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services DataRobot, Inc. develops automated machine learning, automated machine series, and managed al clouds. It offers solutions to the banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and marketing sectors. The company was founded by Jeremy Achin and Thomas de Godoy in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Technology Services |
Sambanova Systems, Inc.
 Sambanova Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Sambanova Systems, Inc. develops machine learning and data analytics applications. The company was founded by Rodrigo Liang, Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Re in November 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
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