Deepak Kamra
General Partner @ Canaan Partners
San Francisco, United States
Deepak Kamra is a Series B investor at Canaan Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and Analytics. Deepak has been with Canaan Partners for over 20 years, focusing on investments in software and marketplaces. Deepak has wide-ranging interests, and thrives on risk. He led Canaan's early investment in DoubleClick (DCLK), the Internet's first and leading online advertising solution, as well as our investments in Acme Packet (APKT), aleading network security and virtualization company, Skybox Imaging (acquired by GOOG),a micro-satellite company, and SuccessFactors, (SFSF), a pioneering cloud software company for human resources management.Deepak currently sits on the boards of World View, Zoosk, Turo, ON24, and Talena. Prior to joining Canaan, he was part of the startup team at Aspect Communications, a pioneer in call center software, where he helped lead the company to a successful IPO in 1990. Today the company is called Aspect Software and employs over 2000 people. Prior to Aspect, Deepak held strategic roles at ROLM Corp. and TRW Datacomm International.Deepak received a BA from Carleton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was included on the Forbes Midas List in 2008 and 2009. He was a member of the board of the National Venture Capital Association from 2008 to 2012. In his spare time, he is involved in several microfinance initiatives to spur economic growth in developing nations and has served as Chairman of the Investment Committee at Deutsche Bank's Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Deepak Kamra invests in
Stages Deepak Kamra invests in
Countries Deepak Kamra invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (13%)
- Analytics 4 (10%)
- SaaS 3 (8%)
- Big Data 3 (8%)
- Internet 3 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (25%)
- Series A 9 (23%)
- Series C 5 (13%)
- Seed 3 (8%)
- Series D 3 (8%)
Country
- United States 19 (48%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Investments
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| Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solutionoffers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams.Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 07, 2020 | ||
| Astra is a rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery service and launch service. It offers online reservations for payload deliveries to both sun-synchronous and low inclination orbits. Astra also offers dedicated launch services of 50kg-150kg payloads to 500km SSO reference orbit in 2020 and 2021. | $100M / Series C / Oct 01, 2019 | ||
| Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solutionoffers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams.Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 11, 2019 | ||
| Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of theleading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York. | $35M / Series C / Jan 24, 2019 | ||
| Wove envisions a world where brands grow together. To support this vision, Wove is building the world’s largest network for marketing partnerships, where trusted brands reach each other’s loyal customers and make them their own - all while protecting consumer privacy. With backing from August Capital, Partech, and Origin Ventures, Wove enablesbrands to transform their marketing efforts by unlocking the power of other brands' data. | $9M / Series A / Sep 19, 2018 | ||
| Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. It scales to meet the needs of any contact center and business by unifying data from multiple sources, enabling companies to deliver service and support through a single timeline view. Kustomer is the core platform of some of theleading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Glossier, Sweetgreen, Away, Rent the Runway, and UNTUCKit.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York. | $26M / Series B / Jun 15, 2018 | ||
| At World View® Enterprises, Inc. we are pioneering a new frontier at the edge of space: the stratospheric economy. Over 115 successful stratospheric flights and 10,274,598 vertical feet flown (Nov 2022), World View has innovated exploration of the stratosphere through advanced research, discovery, and now human spaceflight. We have engineered andpatented sophisticated takeoff and landing systems and developed complex methodologies for controlling trajectories in the stratosphere. These innovations have earned us the trust of NASA and other government, scientific, and aerospace organizations. Our expertise enables us to bring edge-of-space travel to the public and stratospheric remote sensing to governments and businesses, as World View embarks on the mission to inspire, create, and explore new perspectives for a radically improved future.We are on a mission to inspire, create and explore new perspectives for a radically-improved future. Whether though our remote sensing vehicles called Stratollites® that can persist in the stratosphere over areas of interest for months at a time, or our space tourism and exploration services that are introducing meaningful space tourism to entirely new addressable market, World View is delivering the first purpose-first service offering from the stratosphere. | $26.5M / Series C / Mar 29, 2018 | ||
| Imanis Data is a venture backed Silicon Valley startup company operating in stealth mode. Our world-class team with deep storage and big data experience has embarked on building the next-generation data management platform that will disrupt the big data and storage industry. Stay tuned for news on our amazing company and industry-changing productsas we get out of stealth mode. | $13.5M / Series B / Mar 05, 2018 | ||
| Ascendify’s Intelligent People Management™ platform reinvents how companies attract, develop and inspire their talent. Built for global organizations, Ascendify integrates machine learning and predictive analytics into recruiting and talent development with one seamless platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, Ascendify's customers includeGE, Cisco, Panasonic, Disney, Deloitte, and Marriott. | $11M / Series A / Oct 09, 2017 | ||
| Turo is a car sharing marketplace where travelers can rent any car they want, wherever they want it, from a community of local car owners. Travelers choose from a unique selection of nearby cars, while car owners earn extra money and help fuel the adventures of travelers they meet along the way.Since its national launch in March 2012, Turo hasbuilt a vibrant community of over 2 million owners and travelers. Owners are able to make hundreds – or even thousands – of dollars a month by simply and safely renting out their cars. From A3 to Z4, renters have access to an unparalleled selection of vehicles at prices up to 40% lower than other car rental options, while enjoying the convenience of renting cars where they’re needed: right in their own neighborhood, at the airport, and everywhere in between. | $104M / Series D / Sep 06, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Canaan Partners
Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud,marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.
Canaan Partners Contacts
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Brendan Dickinson
General Partner
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Brenton Ahrens
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Byron Ling
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What does Deepak Kamra invest in?
Deepak Kamra invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 40 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 Deepak Kamra last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Deepak Kamra closed in Apr 2020. Shizune tracks 40 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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