Bobby Yerramilli-Rao
Co-Founder & Partner @ Hermes Growth Partners
London, United Kingdom
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao is a Series D investor at Hermes Growth Partners in London focused on Cloud Computing and Mobile. Bobby Yerramilli-Rao is based out of Redmond, Washington and is the CSO of Microsoft. Bobby previously worked at Fusion Global Capital as a Co Founder & Managing Partner. Bobby Yerramilli-Rao attended the University of Oxford.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
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Industries Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cloud Computing 3 (43%)
- Mobile 2 (29%)
- Internet 2 (29%)
- Software 2 (29%)
- Advertising 2 (29%)
Stage
- Series D 3 (43%)
- Series C 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Airlinq powers the next generation enterprise-grade cloud and edge platform to handle complex AI and IoT use cases around smart mobility and ecosystem monetization for automakers, mobile network operators, and consumers around the world. This highly scalable, globally available platform is ready to support millions of connected assets and vehicleswith mission-critical latency, security, and reliability. | Series A / Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| VeloCloud Networks™, Inc. is the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN™ company, a Gartner Cool Vendor, the Frost & Sullivan Product Leader in the SD-WAN Solution Market, and a Best of Interop and Best of VMworld winner. The company simplifies branch WAN networking by automating deployment and improving performance over private, broadband Internet and LTElinks for today’s increasingly distributed enterprises. VeloCloud SD-WAN includes: a choice of public, private or hybrid cloud network for enterprise-grade connection to cloud and enterprise applications; branch office enterprise appliances and optional data center appliances; software-defined control and automation; and virtual services delivery. | $35M / Series D / Mar 02, 2017 | ||
| Barefoot Networks is a team of visionaries, experienced technologists and engineers who have created a blueprint for designing and operating the world’s fastest and most programmable networks. Their goal is to make programming your network as simple as programming your CPU. | $57M / Series C / Jun 14, 2016 | ||
| Fuze is a global, cloud-based unified communications platform that empowers productivity and delivers insights across the enterprise by enabling simplified business voice communications, flexible video conferencing, and always-on collaboration. Formerly ThinkingPhones, Fuze allows the modern, mobile workforce to seamlessly communicate anytime,anywhere, across any device. Fuze is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has additional locations including New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Ottawa, London, Amsterdam, Aveiro (Portugal), Paris, Munich, Zurich, Copenhagen, and Sydney. | $112M / Series D / Feb 01, 2016 | ||
| Instart is a digital experience management company. They help thousands of leading brands like Neiman Marcus, Coach, Microsoft, AT&T, Hearst and CBS to deliver faster, safer and better online experiences for millions of their customers – and to earn higher profits for themselves. Their Digital Experience Cloud is unique in that it usesartificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically and continuously optimize and secure every object and every page for each of your web and mobile applications for every device and every customer. No other company does this. After you deploy Instart, your customers will enjoy up to 30% faster application performance, and your applications and products will look better, leading to up to 20% higher conversion, more SEO traffic, lower pay per click costs and higher net promoter scores. If your company is selling online, your customers will buy more, delivering up to 8% higher online revenue, greater average order value, and reduced returns. Media companies work with Instart to drive online revenue up to 15% higher by increasing advertising viewability, restoring advertising revenue currently being lost to ad blocking software, and ensuring every visitor always has the best possible experience. IT departments enjoy up to 50% lower TCO, greater security and improved reliability for your existing infrastructure supporting your digital applications. | $45M / Series D / Jan 20, 2016 | ||
| Instart is a digital experience management company. They help thousands of leading brands like Neiman Marcus, Coach, Microsoft, AT&T, Hearst and CBS to deliver faster, safer and better online experiences for millions of their customers – and to earn higher profits for themselves. Their Digital Experience Cloud is unique in that it usesartificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically and continuously optimize and secure every object and every page for each of your web and mobile applications for every device and every customer. No other company does this. After you deploy Instart, your customers will enjoy up to 30% faster application performance, and your applications and products will look better, leading to up to 20% higher conversion, more SEO traffic, lower pay per click costs and higher net promoter scores. If your company is selling online, your customers will buy more, delivering up to 8% higher online revenue, greater average order value, and reduced returns. Media companies work with Instart to drive online revenue up to 15% higher by increasing advertising viewability, restoring advertising revenue currently being lost to ad blocking software, and ensuring every visitor always has the best possible experience. IT departments enjoy up to 50% lower TCO, greater security and improved reliability for your existing infrastructure supporting your digital applications. | $13M / Series C / May 13, 2015 | ||
| The Trade Desk is a technology company that empowers buyers of advertising. The Trade Desk provides a self-service platform that enables ad buyers to manage data-driven digital advertising campaigns using their own teams across various advertising formats, including display, video, and social, and on a multitude of devices, including computers,mobile devices, and connected TV.Headquartered in Ventura, Calif., The Trade Desk has offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. | $20M / Series B / Feb 25, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About Hermes Growth Partners
Hermes Growth Partners (HGP) is a growth equity firm investing in B2B technology companies. HGP focuses on cloud computing, data analytics and new networking technology, areas where we see the potential for new products to transform businesses in all sectors across the world over the next one to two decades.
Hermes Growth Partners Contacts
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Fiorangelo Salvatorelli
Partner
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Juan Villalonga
Co-Founder & Partner
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What does Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invest in?
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invests primarily in Cloud Computing, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 7 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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The most recent investment recorded for Bobby Yerramilli-Rao closed in Feb 2019. Shizune tracks 7 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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