Investing Profile

Vishal Makhijani

Angel

Chief Operating Officer at you.com

San Francisco, California

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PwC Network

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Yahoo Network

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Current Investing Position

you.com Advisor

Investment Range

$5K - $50K

Sweet Spot

$25K

Investments On Record

Vishal Makhijani is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Consumer Internet (Pre-seed)Enterprise (Pre-seed)Enterprise (Seed)

Vishal Makhijani's Investments On Record (9)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Shabodi	Pre SeedJan 2021$200K	$13M
Co-investors: Bruce Taragin (Blumberg Capital), Moshe Bellows (Terra Vista of Oakbrook Terrace)
Trimian	Series UnknownOct 2017$3M	$3M
Co-investors: Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Esther Dyson (EPAM Systems), Jeff Bonforte (Parade Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Greg Badros, Tuoc Luong
Instawork	SeedAug 2015$2M	$170M
Co-investors: David Thacker (Greylock), Bill Gurley (Benchmark), Nabeel Hyatt (Spark Capital), George Hu (Benchmark), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Bhaskar Ghosh (8VC), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Thomas Loverro (IVP), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures), Gautam Gupta (Strata Capital Partners), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Arra Malekzadeh (WorkOS), Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Julie Herendeen (Broadway Angels), Othman Laraki, Amr Awadallah, Steve Chen, Rob Solomon, Joshua Schachter, Akash Garg
Pepperdata	Series BApr 2015$15M	$22M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Ramneek Gupta (Battery Ventures), Peter Wagner (Wing Venture Capital), Ed Cluss (Signia Venture Partners), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Mike Bergelson (Glencrest Group), Maynard Webb (Webb Investment Network)
Amitree	SeedJan 2014$3M	$19M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Gideon Yu (formation\|8), Bruce Golden (Accel-KKR), Paul Conley (Paladin Capital Group), Daniel Scrivner (Ligature), Ashvin Patel (Morado Venture Partners), Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), Farzad Nazem
LookSharp	Series AJun 2013$4M	$4.4M
Co-investors: Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Danielle Morrill (XFactor Ventures), Dave McClure (Practical Venture Capital), Kenny Van Zant, Rudy Gadre
Copper	SeedMay 2013$3M	$220M
Co-investors: Kevin Ding (Polychain Capital), April Underwood (Obvious Ventures), Shernaz Daver (Khosla Ventures), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Mark Cupta (Prelude Ventures), Mikhail Lobanov (Target Global), Remus Brett (Latitude), Oliver Richards (MMC Ventures), Josh Bell (Dawn Capital), Promod Haque (Norwest Venture Partners), Brad Jones (Colle Capital), Tom Cole (CSC Venture Capital), Andy Rankin (Exit13 Ventures), Anthony Soohoo (AI Fund), Zach Coelius (Coelius Capital), Jack Brody (Mana Ventures), Daniel Curran (FundersClub), Peter Bordes (Trajectory Ventures), Geoff Entress (Pioneer Square Labs), Benjamin Savage (Clocktower Technology Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Marc McCabe, Don Hutchison, Anshu Sharma
Origami Labs	Debt FinancingOct 2011$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Hank Vigil (Acequia Capital), Sachin Agarwal (Braid), Fritz Lanman (ClassPass), Shan Mehta (CITG Capital), Jude Gomila (Golden (Recursion Inc)), Adrian Aoun (500 Startups Korea), Aayush Phumbhra, Ken Keller, David Wallerstein, Joshua Schachter

Vishal Makhijani's Experience

Manager ABS PwCPresent

VP & GM Web Search Inktomi CorporationPresent

VP & GM Web Search InktomiPresent

VP&GM - International Search YahooPresent

VP YSM International and Monetization Strategy YahooPresent

SVP Yahoo Search Group YahooPresent

Advisor DapperPresent

Advisor Splashtop Inc.Present

Chief Operating Officer, SVP Zynga Network Products ZyngaPresent

Board member YandexPresent

Board Advisor YandexPresent

Advisor SqulaPresent

Advisor & Investor PepperdataPresent

Board Member CopperPresent

President, Chief Operating Officer & Board Member UdacityPresent

President & COO ZumperPresent

Investor, Member of Board of Directors ShabodiPresent

Chief Operating Officer, President & CTO - Interim Change.orgPresent

Chief Operating Officer you.comPresent

On Sabattical HotmailPresent

President & CEO - Yandex Labs YandexPresent

CEO/COO/Board member/Advisor high growth. Taking a break HotmailPresent

Vishal Makhijani's Education

University of Connecticut BS Accounting

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