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
414 CONNECTIONS
McKinsey & Company Network
276 CONNECTIONS
UBS Network
217 CONNECTIONS
UBS Investment Bank Network
72 CONNECTIONS
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business Network
35 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Silas Capital
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
$12M
Co-investors: Vignesh Ravikumar (Sierra Ventures), Andrea Hippeau (Lerer Hippeau), Brian Hollins (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Sharath Keshava Narayana (Carya Venture Partners), Anshu Sharma, Akshay Kothari
Jar
Series AFeb 2022$32M
$150M
Co-investors: Alex Cook (Tiger Global Management), Byron Ling (Twelve Below), Shaan Puri (Shaan's All Access Fund), Zachary Hargreaves (The Founders Fund), Ali Moiz (Moving Capital), Edward Lando (Biowear), Manik Gupta (Uber), Howard Lindzon (Social Leverage), Adam Nash (Greylock Partners), Brian Bell (Team Ignite Ventures), Victor Jacobsson (Independent), Jeremy Cai (Italic), Suleman (Suli) Ali (Ali Capital), Sailesh Ramakrishnan (rocketship.vc), Kunal Shah
Stere.io
SeedDec 2021$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Emy Donovan (Fin Venture Capital)

Shamir Karkal's Experience

Co-founder and CEO Sila2018 - Present
Software Engineer Parsons CorporationPresent
Summer Associate UBSPresent
Summer Associate UBS Investment BankPresent
Management Consultant Mckinsey & CompanyPresent
Board Member SimplePresent
Board Member Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR)Present
Board Member MightyPresent
Non Executive Director, USA WisePresent
CFO and co-founder SimplePresent
Co-founder SilaPresent
Co-founder and President Aleph InvariancePresent
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.
Bangalore University B.Sc. Physics, Computer Science
SCIT - Symbiosis Centre For Information Technology MPIT Information technology
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business MBA Finance, Strategy

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