Rajeev Motwani
Angel Investor
Stanford, United States
Rajeev Motwani is a Series A investor in Stanford focused on Video and Internet. Rajeev Motwani currently works as a Data Scientist at MediaMarktSaturn. Rajeev was a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he also served as the director of graduate studies. His research interests included: databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, and theoretical computer science. While atStanford, he was the founder of the Mining Data at Stanford project, also known as MIDAS.Motwani was well-known for his mentoring of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.He was a co-author of the book, Randomized Algorithms, published by Cambridge University Press. Motwani received the Arthur P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and an IBM Faculty Award.Motwani studied computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and completed his doctorate at UC-Berkeley.Rajeev Motwani
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Rajeev Motwani invests in
Stages Rajeev Motwani invests in
Countries Rajeev Motwani invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Angel
- $100k–$1.8M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$3.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 5 (42%)
- Internet 3 (25%)
- Software 3 (25%)
- Mobile 2 (17%)
- Media and Entertainment 2 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (33%)
- Angel 3 (25%)
- Seed 2 (17%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ankeena develops media infrastructure solutions deliver online media at a massive scale. The solution is fully interoperable with industry standard players and other infrastructure elements. | $15.9M / Mar 19, 2010 | ||
| Tapulous is a developer of applications for the iPhone and Android platforms. Some of their apps include Tap Tap Revenge (the sequel to Tap Tap Revolution), Twinkle (a Twitter client) and Collage (a real-time collaborative photo sharing application) and the newly launched Riddim Ribbon. | $1.8M / Angel / Jul 01, 2008 | ||
| Telly (formerly Twitvid) is a premium subscription video-on-demand service that focuses on the best of entertainment and exclusive locally produced content. As well as screening exclusive and original content, Telly's programming includes; Bollywood movies, TV shows, locally produced content, Kuwaiti short films, and many more all of which canbe found on the Telly App and website.Telly mainly generates revenue mainly from subscription-based services as opposed to advertising to avoid losing customers to interruptions caused by the adverts, however, their business model is considered to be facing competition by video piracy. | Angel / Feb 20, 2008 | ||
| Flowgram is a way to share Web pages, photos, and videos in a browser-based player that acts like an interactive screencast. The company is headed by Abhay Parekh, the co-founder of FastForward Networks (which was sold to Inktomi for $1.3 billion in 2000) and an ex-Accel Venture Partner. | $1.3M / Seed / Jan 31, 2008 | ||
| TokBox develops and operates the OpenTok Video Platform, making it fast and easy to add live video communications to online and mobile websites, apps, and services. The scalable, customizable platform gives users the creative freedom to develop any video interaction, from one-to-one chats to large-scale broadcasts.The first platform toincorporate support for WebRTC, OpenTok caters to enterprises, entrepreneurs, and developers with powerful APIs, a global cloud infrastructure, and pre-configured solutions. OpenTok has been used to add video communications to more than 80,000 services by companies including Major League Baseball, Diet Coke, Ford, Doritos, Bridgestone, and Double Robotics.TokBox is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | $100K / Angel / Sep 01, 2007 | ||
| CastTV is working to build the web's best video search engine. CastTV lets users find all their favorite online videos, from TV shows to movies to the latest celebrity, sports, news, and viral videos. The company's proprietary technology addresses two main video search challenges: finding and cataloging videos from the web and deliveringrelevant video results to users. CastTV is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and prominent angel investors. CastTV competitors include | $3.1M / Series A / Apr 25, 2007 | ||
| Anchor Intelligence is the traffic quality solutions provider of choice among ad networks and search engines. Anchor's ClearMark, the industry's first and only real-time traffic scoring system, enables customers to increase conversions, improve traffic sources, eliminate click and impression fraud, and capitalize on high quality trafficto maximize advertiser ROI. By providing a quality score for each ad event (similar to a FICO score for credit), ClearMark provides customers with actionable intelligence to make smarter decisions about their inventory. While industry-wide CPCs have declined by approximately 13% in the past few months, Anchor's customers' average CPCs have increased by 11%. Anchor Intelligence was acquired by Comscore in March 2011. | $2M / Series A / Jan 01, 2007 | ||
| Meraki provides Cisco-based, cloud-controlled Wi-Fi and routing and security products for distributed wired and wireless networks. Cisco Meraki includes a portfolio of wireless LAN, switching, security appliances, and mobile device management, all centrally managed from the cloud.The company’s customers range from small and medium-sizedbusinesses to global hotel chains to educational institutions.Meraki was created by Cisco’s 2012 acquisition of Meraki, a company that began as the brainchild of MIT PhD students. It is headquartered in Cisco SF, a center for software innovation based in San Francisco, California. | Seed / Dec 01, 2006 | ||
| Kaboodle is an insurance collaborative that delivers innovative products and services to insurers by enabling insurtech startups to merge offerings with established vendors. | $3.6M / Series A / Apr 17, 2006 | ||
| Kaboodle offers an easy way to collect information from the web and also search for things you may be interested in. Kaboodle can be used to collect and share information for shopping, travel, research, or just about anything else. With over 35,000 users, Kaboodle's user base is relatively small, but the site is young and has much room togrow. The company has received funding and strong support from such investors as Kanwal Rekhi of Inventus Capital, Junglee founder Ashish Gupta, and co-author of Google's early search algorithm research Rajeev Motwani. | $3.6M / Series A / Apr 17, 2006 | ||
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FAQ
What does Rajeev Motwani invest in?
Rajeev Motwani invests primarily in Video, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series A and Angel stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Rajeev Motwani's check size?
Rajeev Motwani typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.8M at Angel and $1.5M–$3.6M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rajeev Motwani participates in.
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When did Rajeev Motwani last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rajeev Motwani closed in Mar 2010. Shizune tracks 12 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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