Investing Profile

Rama Sekhar

VCInvestor

Partner at Norwest Venture Partners

nvp.com/team/rama-sekhar/Palo Alto, California

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Networks Rama is a member of

The Wharton School Network

725 CONNECTIONS

Rutgers University Network

66 CONNECTIONS

Norwest Network

56 CONNECTIONS

Norwest Venture Partners Network

55 CONNECTIONS

Menlo Ventures Network

43 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Norwest Venture Partners Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $30.0M

Sweet Spot

$12.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$2B

Rama Sekhar is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Rama Sekhar's Investments On Record (15)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Zafran Security	Series UnknownJul 2026 Series CDec 2025$60M	$85M
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Lior Simon (Cyberstarts VC), Janey Hoe (Cisco Investments)
Clerk	Series COct 2025$50M	$110M
Co-investors: Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Reid Christian (CRV), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Christian Bach (Intigral), Andrew Miklas (Y Combinator), Guillermo Rauch
Veza	Series DApr 2025$110M Series CApr 2022$110M	$220M
Co-investors: Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Lars Dalgaard (Andreessen Horowitz), Aaron Jacobson (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Karim Faris (Google Ventures), Matt Weigand (Accel-KKR), David Zilberman (Norwest Venture Partners), Kevin Mandia (Ballistic Ventures), Jake Seid (Ballistic Ventures), Eric Wolford (Accel-KKR), Dheeraj Pandey (Param Hansa Values LLC)
Graphite	Series BMar 2025$52M	$84M
Co-investors: Peter Levine (Andreessen Horowitz), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Ludwig Schulze (Alumni Ventures ), Christine Esserman (Accel-KKR)
Astrix Security	Series BDec 2024$45M	$85M
Co-investors: Amit Karp (Bessemer Venture Partners), James Green (CRV), Adam R. Fisher (Bessemer Venture Partners), Jonathan Saacks (F2 Venture Capital)
InfluxData	Series EFeb 2023$51M Series DFeb 2019$60M	$170M
Co-investors: Robin Vasan (Mayfield), Dharmesh Thakker (Battery Ventures), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Anders Ranum (Sapphire Ventures, LLC), Vibhor Rastogi (SymphonyAI), Matthew Howard (Norwest Venture Partners), Shivon Zilis (Creative Destruction Lab)
Amberflo	Series AJan 2023$15M	$17M
Co-investors: Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures)
Harness	Series DApr 2022$180M Series CJan 2021$85M	$560M
Co-investors: Neeraj Agrawal (Battery Ventures), Thomas Loverro (IVP), Steve Harrick (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Scott Beechuk (Norwest Venture Partners), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures), Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins), Adam Ghobarah (Kinetix), Matt Carbonara (Reservoir Venture Partners), Steve Kuo (Hercules Capital), Matt Carbonara

Rama Sekhar's Experience

Partner Norwest Venture Partners2009 - Present

Investor Comcast VenturesPresent

Board Observer PertinoPresent

Board Observer (acquired by Forcepoint) BitglassPresent

Board Observer (acquired by F5) Shape SecurityPresent

Board Member (acquired by Idera) QubolePresent

Board Observer (acquired by Neustar) TRUSTID, Inc.Present

Board Observer Cmd (acquired by Elastic)Present

Board Member (acquired by Fortra) AgariPresent

Board Member DremioPresent

Board Observer ClearDATAPresent

Board Observer FOSSAPresent

Board Member InfluxDataPresent

Board Member ProductivPresent

Board Member VezaPresent

Board Observer HarnessPresent

Board Member Amberflo.ioPresent

Board Observer Numbers Station AIPresent

Board Member Astrix SecurityPresent

Investor GatherPresent

Board Member Clerk.comPresent

Investor GraphitePresent

Board Member Zafran SecurityPresent

Partner NorwestPresent

Partner Menlo VenturesPresent

Rama Sekhar's Education

Rutgers University Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Wharton School Master of Business Administration - MBA Finance and Entrepreneurship

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