# ASHOK KAMAL

> ASHOK KAMAL is a seed investor at University of California San Diego backing GPU. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: University of California San Diego
- Location: Cardiff By The Sea, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashokkamal
- Website: https://x.com/AK_LaunchLeader

ASHOK KAMAL is a seed investor at University of California San Diego in Cardiff By The Sea focused on GPU and Cloud Storage. ASHOK KAMAL is the Entrepreneur In Residence of University of California, San Diego. Took up Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology at Boston University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GPU | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Storage | 1 | 100% |
| Semiconductor | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | 100% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Axalume | Axalume has developed proprietary technologies that combine silicon photonic circuits with silicon electronics to solve looming interconnect bottlenecks for servers, datacenters, and high-performance computing and networking systems. As a new, fabless semiconductor startup, theirtechnology has been critically evaluated and hailed by commercial,academic, and government institutions. They are on-track to deliver electronic-photonic integrated circuit (EPIC) chipsets to serve future datacenter and cloud computing market segments. Their products will include silicon photonics IP, chipsets, and architecture for transforming Internet data centers to make them faster, lower cost, and more space- and energy-efficient. Their technology will deliver up to a 4.5x improvement in size (density), a 3.5x improvement in energy efficiency, and a 2x improvement in latency versus currently available networking components. Our optical switching chipsets will enable datacenter operators to offer improved, faster, and more secure services to their customers with even higher scalability and efficiency. | $1M | Seed | Dec 04, 2017 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About University of California San Diego

VC Fund · La Jolla, United States

UC San Diego is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through excellence in education and research at the undergraduate, graduate, professional school and postdoctoral levels. The campus is committed to community engagement, public service and industry partnerships in order to advance the health and well-being of our region, state, nation andthe world. Our academic community of world-renowned faculty, bright students and dedicated staff is characterized by a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation which spans the globe.To foster the best possible working and learning environment, our university strives to maintain a climate of fairness, cooperation, and professionalism, which is embodied in our campus Principles of Community. UC San Diego embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential ingredients of academic excellence in higher education.

5 contacts available at University of California San Diego.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Tolles | UC San Diego | — |
| Henrik Christensen | Distinguished Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henrik-christensen |
| Ali Arsanjani | Senior Lecturer | — |
| Angela Yu | Professor | — |
| ASHOK KAMAL | Entrepreneur In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashok-kamal |

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## FAQ

### What does ASHOK KAMAL invest in?

ASHOK KAMAL invests primarily in GPU, Cloud Storage and Semiconductor startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did ASHOK KAMAL last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for ASHOK KAMAL closed in Dec 2017. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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