Bobby Yerramilli-Rao
CSO @ Microsoft
London, United Kingdom
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao is a Series D investor at Microsoft in London focused on Cloud Computing and SaaS. Bobby Yerramilli-Rao is the Managing Partner at Fusion Global Capital, formerly Hermes Growth Partners. Bobby was formerly the Corporate Strategy Director and Internet Services Marketing Director of Vodafone Group.As part of these global roles Bobby was responsible for overall strategy and technology related acquisitions and served on thecompany’s investment committee.Bobby serves on the Boards of Directors of Instart Logic and Cambridge Epigenetix, is an observer on the Board of Fuze, and led investments in RingCentral and VeloCloud.Bobby is a former research engineer at Marconi and was a partner at McKinsey and Company in New Jersey and Palo Alto. Bobby holds a DPhil in Robotics from the University of Oxford and an MA in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invests in
Stages Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invests in
Countries Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cloud Computing 3 (50%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- Mobile 1 (17%)
- Computer 1 (17%)
- Hardware 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series D 3 (50%)
- Series C 2 (33%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
Investments
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Airlinq
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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
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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
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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, an 8x8 company
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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
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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 | |
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Instart
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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 |
Co-Investors
About Microsoft
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.
Microsoft Contacts
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Alex Robart
Energy Industry Strategy Leader
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Aparna Chennapragada
Corporate VP
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Bay Gross
Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI
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Bobby George
Creative Strategist
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What does Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invest in?
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao invests primarily in Cloud Computing, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 6 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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