Investing Profile

Kumar Dandapani

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Co-Founder | Managing Partner at Cadenza Ventures
cadenza.vc/teamSan Francisco, California
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Networks Kumar is a member of
University of Pennsylvania Network
221 CONNECTIONS
Newcastle Dive Center Network
141 CONNECTIONS
Intel Corporation Network
93 CONNECTIONS
Carnegie Mellon University Network
82 CONNECTIONS
Carnegie Mellon University Network
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Current Investing Position
Cadenza Ventures Managing Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
14

Kumar Dandapani is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Kumar Dandapani's Investments On Record (13)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Validation Cloud
Series AMar 2025$15M
SeedFeb 2024$6M
$21M
Co-investors: Aly Madhavji (Blockchain Founders Fund)
Hata
SeedOct 2024$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Sean Judge (Castle Island Ventures), Max Shapiro (Cadenza Capital Management), Nic Carter (Castle Island Ventures)
Uniblock
SeedNov 2023$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Aly Madhavji (Blockchain Founders Fund)
League of Traders
SeedJun 2022$2M
$2M
VALR
Series BMar 2022$50M
$50M
Co-investors: Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital)
Casa
SeedFeb 2021$4M
$45M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Nic Carter (Castle Island Ventures), Travis Kalanick (10100), Scott Belsky (A24), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Frederic Kerrest
Wyre
Series UnknownJan 2021$8M
$10M
Co-investors: Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Andrew Boszhardt (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Melissa Krinzman (Krillion Ventures), Brandon Hoffman (Sunset Ventures), Michael Dunworth
Nayms
SeedJan 2021$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Greg Carson (XBTO Humla Ventures)

Kumar Dandapani's Experience

Seed Investor Pangram Labs2025 - Present
Seed Investor Dexmate2024 - Present
Seed Investor TensorWave2024 - Present
Seed Investor Together AI2022 - Present
Investor Casa Inc.2021 - Present
Investor Eventus Systems2020 - Present
Investor | Board Member PDAX | Philippine Digital Asset Exchange2019 - Present
Investor CoinDCX2019 - Present
Investor | Board Observer ZEBEDEE2019 - Present
Co-Founder | Managing Partner Cadenza2018 - Present
Investor Blockfolio2018 - Present
Co-Founder | Managing Partner Cadenza Ventures2018 - Present
Investor | Board Observer ZebedeePresent
Research Associate Newcastle Dive CenterPresent
Seed Investor RimePresent
Research Associate Pequot VenturesPresent
Seed Investor CoinDCX2020 - 2024
Investor | Board Member VALR2020 - 2024
Seed Investor FalconX2019 - 2022
Investor FalconX2020 - 2022
Quant Fund | Data Science Advisor AngelList2021 - 2021
Head of Ventures, Data Science BitMEX2017 - 2021
Head of Data Science Norwest2015 - 2019
Head of Data Science Norwest Venture Partners2015 - 2019
Partner | Data Science Nth-Degree Analytics2011 - 2015
Trader Evolution Financial Group2008 - 2011
Trader Evolution Capital Management2008 - 2011
Research Associate Cornerstone Trading Company2006 - 2008
Engineering Leadership Development Program Lockheed Martin2003 - 2006
R&D Engineering Intern Intel Corporation2002 - 2002
R&D Engineering Intern Intel, Inc.2002 - 2002
R&D Engineering Intern Agilent Technologies2001 - 2001

Kumar Dandapani's Education

University of Pennsylvania M.S. Electrical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University B.A. Social & Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering