Pradeep Sindhu
Angel Investor
Sunnyvale, United States
Pradeep Sindhu is a Series A investor in Sunnyvale focused on Software and Internet. Pradeep Sindhu is the Founder, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Technology Officer at Juniper Networks Inc. Pradeep founded Juniper Networks in February 1996 and has held several central roles in shaping the company. Pradeep currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Technology Officer. Pradeep isresponsible for the company's technical roadmap as well as day-to-day design and development of future products. Pradeep served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer for eight months when he founded the company. During that time, he played a central role in the architecture, design, and development of the M40 router. Before founding Juniper Networks, Pradeep was a Principal Scientist and Distinguished Engineer at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he worked on design tools for VLSI and high-speed interconnects for shared-memory multiprocessors. His key roles in the architecture, design and development of these machines led to the commercial development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included the SS1000 and SS2000. Pradeep holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, as well as a Master's degree in the same discipline from the University of Hawaii. In addition, Pradeep holds both a Master's and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (67%)
- Internet 1 (33%)
- Data Center 1 (33%)
- Photography 1 (33%)
- Data Storage 1 (33%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (67%)
- Seed 1 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| AI to automate microchip design | $8M / Seed / Aug 07, 2025 | ||
| Qwiki is an industry leader in automated video production. Most recently, Qwiki released an iPhone app that automatically turns the pictures and videos from a user camera roll into brief, beautiful movies to share. | $8M / Series A / Jan 07, 2011 | ||
| Datera is bringing the software-defined revolution to enterprise data storage with automation and applied machine learning in partnership with the leaders in server-based infrastructure, including HPE, Intel, Fjuistu, Lenovo, Dell and Cisco, all at a 70% lower total cost of ownership and operation.Datera was founded by the authors and maintainersof the Linux I/O storage stack and is backed by Khosla Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Silicon Valley luminaries including Sun Microsystems' Andy Bechtolsheim and Juniper Networks' Pradeep Sindhu. | Series A |
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Pradeep Sindhu invests primarily in Software, Internet and Data Center startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 3 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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