Investing Profile

Shamir Karkal

Angel
Co-founder and CEO at Sila
Portland, Oregon
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Networks Shamir is a member of
McKinsey & Company Network
141 CONNECTIONS
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business Network
17 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Angel
Investment Range
$5K - $50K
Sweet Spot
$25K
Investments On Record
3

Shamir Karkal is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Shamir Karkal's Investments On Record (3)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
TeamOhana
SeedOct 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Vignesh Ravikumar (Sierra Ventures), Sharath Keshava Narayana (Carya Venture Partners), Anshu Sharma, Akshay Kothari
Jar
Series AFeb 2022$32M
$150M
Co-investors: Alex Cook (Tiger Global Management), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Byron Ling (Twelve Below), Brian Bell (Team Ignite Ventures), Shaan Puri (Shaan's All Access Fund), Howard Lindzon (Social Leverage), Sailesh Ramakrishnan (rocketship.vc), Adam Nash (Daffy), Suleman (Suli) Ali (Ali Capital), Kunal Shah, Ali Moiz, Manik Gupta, Jeremy Cai, Alvin Tse, Zachary Hargreaves, Victor Jacobsson
Stere.io
SeedDec 2021$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Emy Donovan

Shamir Karkal's Experience

Co-founder and CEO Sila2018 - Present
Advisory Committee Member CGAP2018 - 2020
Head, Open APIs BBVA2015 - 2017
Board Member Simple Finance2010 - 2015
CFO and co-founder Simple Finance2010 - 2015
Management Consultant McKinsey & Company2006 - 2009
Summer Associate UBS Securities Co., Ltd2005 - 2005
Systems Engineer/Release Manager Mphasis2003 - 2004
Software Engineer Intelligent Software Solutions2001 - 2002

Shamir Karkal's Education

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business MBA
SCIT - Symbiosis Centre For Information Technology MPIT
Bangalore University B.Sc.

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