# Pradeep Sindhu

> Pradeep Sindhu is a Series A investor at Juniper Networks backing Software and Internet. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Juniper Networks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juniper-networks)
- Location: Sunnyvale, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeep-sindhu-889645a2

Pradeep Sindhu is a Series A investor at Juniper Networks 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Data Center | 1 | 33% |
| Photography | 1 | 33% |
| Data Storage | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Astrus | AI to automate microchip design | $8M | Seed | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Qwiki | 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 | 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 |  |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Contour Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/contour-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Drive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drive-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Juniper Networks

VC Fund · Sunnyvale, United States

Juniper Networks develops and sells products and services, which together provide its customers with network infrastructure. It aims to create innovative products and solutions that meet the growing demands of the connected world. The company has 9,000 employees in 70 countries and nearly 5 billion U.S. dollars in revenue. Its customers include thetop 100 global service providers and 30,000 enterprises, including the Global Fortune 100 as well as hundreds of federal, state, and local government agencies and higher educational organizations.

5 contacts available at Juniper Networks.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Hutchins | SVP, Strategy & Product Mgmt | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-hutchins |
| Michael Marcellin | Chief Marketing Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-marcellin |
| Pradeep Sindhu | Founder & Chief Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pradeep-sindhu |
| Alex Gray | Senior Vice President, Customer Services and Support | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-gray |
| Anand. S. Athreya | EVP Engineering, Chief Development Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-s-athreya |

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## FAQ

### What does Pradeep Sindhu invest in?

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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