# B. V. Jagadeesh

> B. V. Jagadeesh is a seed investor at SVQUAD backing Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SVQUAD](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/svquad)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bvjagadeesh
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/bvjagadeesh
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bv.jagadeesh

B. V. Jagadeesh is a seed investor at SVQUAD in San Francisco focused on Software and Cloud Computing. B.V. Jagadeesh is a highly regarded business executive with a proven track record of managing and building market leaders. Before joining 3Leaf Systems, Mr. Jagadeesh served as Group Vice President and General Manager of Citrix Systems' Application Networking Group. Prior to the acquisition of NetScaler by Citrix Systems, Mr. Jagadeesh servedas President and CEO of NetScaler. During his tenure, Mr. Jagadeesh grew NetScaler to become the market leader in Application Delivery Systems until its acquisition by Citrix for $325M in 2005. Prior to NetScaler, Mr. Jagadeesh co-founded Exodus Communications. During his tenure at Exodus, he successfully helped the company grow from start-up to a leader in the Web co-location market and was instrumental in leading its highly successful initial public offering (IPO). Jagadeesh has also held various management and engineering positions at Novell and 3Com.Mr. Jagadeesh holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from University of Bombay, India.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 44% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| GPU | 1 | 11% |
| Video | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PineGap | PineGap is an AI-powered equity research platform for Wall Street. | $8M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| PineGap | PineGap is an AI-powered equity research platform for Wall Street. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| Rexera | InspectHOA uses machine learning to analyze thousands of Homeowner Associations across the country. Our mission is to provide our clients with the most accurate assessment of HOA financial and operational health. | $3.1M | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 | https://inspectHOA.com |
| Nirmata | Nirmata is a fast-growing technology startup that provides an easy-to-use, software-as-as-service for unified governance, security, and compliance for cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Nirmata is the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, the popular CNCF policy engine. Kyverno has rapidly become the de-facto standard for Kubernetespolicy management, with over 2.5 billion downloads and 4.5K GitHub stars. Nirmata’s solutions are deployed by thousands of Kubernetes users across all verticals, especially in regulated industries like banking and financial services, utilities, healthcare, and life-sciences. Nirmata’s commercial solutions build on Kyverno and provide enterprise observability, workflows, and integrations for Fortune 2000 customers. | $4M | Seed | Aug 11, 2021 | https://nirmata.com |
| Aarna Networks | Aarna Networks solves enterprise edge and private 5G management complexity through zero-touch edge infrastructure, applications, and network services orchestration at scale. The company provides GPU-as-a-Service through a GPU Cloud Management Software for AI cloud providers. | $716K | Pre-Seed | Mar 25, 2020 | https://www.aarnanetworks.com/ |
| Balbix | Balbix offers an AI-native cyber risk and exposure management platform to give security teams a unified, real-time view of their attack surface. It continuously discovers and inventories all assets—including IT, cloud, IoT, and OT—normalizing and deduplicating data from multiple sources. The platform uses advanced AI to assess risk by combiningexploitability, business impact, exposure paths, and compensating controls into a “risk graph” that helps prioritize remediation. It also supports application security by identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and software bill-of-materials (SBOM) issues for supply chain risk analysis.Balbix’s AI assistant, BIX, lets teams ask natural-language questions about their security posture and get actionable, business-relevant guidance. The platform further enables cyber-risk quantification by translating technical risk into financial impact, helping organizations align security justifications with business strategy. | $23M | Series B | Jun 27, 2018 | https://www.balbix.com/ |
| Arkin | Arkin removes barriers to software-defined data center (SDDC) adoption by providing a radically simple and collaborative approach to Operations. With a Google Search-like experience, the Arkin platform is an Industry first operations platform for converged infrastructure and software-defined data centers. Organizations have deployed Arkin to getdeep visibility across virtual and physical, strengthen security, maximize utilization and improve performance while collaborating better. Based in Mountain View, CA and Pune India, Arkin was founded by Virtualization and Big Data Experts and is backed by Nexus Venture Partners as well as strategic investors and several industry luminaries. Learn more at www.arkin.net or follow us @arkinnet. | $15M | Series B | Jun 02, 2015 | http://www.arkin.net/ |
| Arkin | Arkin removes barriers to software-defined data center (SDDC) adoption by providing a radically simple and collaborative approach to Operations. With a Google Search-like experience, the Arkin platform is an Industry first operations platform for converged infrastructure and software-defined data centers. Organizations have deployed Arkin to getdeep visibility across virtual and physical, strengthen security, maximize utilization and improve performance while collaborating better. Based in Mountain View, CA and Pune India, Arkin was founded by Virtualization and Big Data Experts and is backed by Nexus Venture Partners as well as strategic investors and several industry luminaries. Learn more at www.arkin.net or follow us @arkinnet. | $7M | Series A | Nov 12, 2014 | http://www.arkin.net/ |
| Ankeena | Ankeena develops media infrastructure solutions deliver online media at a massive scale. The solution is fully interoperable with industry standard players and other infrastructure elements. | $15.9M |  | Mar 19, 2010 | http://www.ankeena.com |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inventus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DeVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mubadala Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mubadala-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alter Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alter-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arka Venture Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arka-ventures-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SVQUAD

VC Fund

SVQUAD is an investment firm.

1 contacts available at SVQUAD.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kanwal Rekhi | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanwal-rekhi |

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## FAQ

### What does B. V. Jagadeesh invest in?

B. V. Jagadeesh invests primarily in Software, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 B. V. Jagadeesh last invest?

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