Rakesh Mathur

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Rakesh is a co-founder of Webaroo. He has been a founder of three technology start up companies in the past 10 years and also an early stage investor in several other companies. He was a founder and CEO of Junglee, whose virtual database technology led to the creation of comparison shopping on the Internet. Junglee was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. He founded Armedia, which was one of the first companies with chip designs for the video component of the DVD standard. Armedia was acquired by Broadcom in 1999. He also founded PurpleYogi, now Stratify which provides enterprise solutions to the management of unstructured data. Rakesh is a board member of Geodesic, a BSE listed company whose Mundu Instant Messenger is used by millions of people.

Rakesh was recognized as a member of the 1998 Upside 100, the 2001 India Today Global 100 and Junglee technology was given the Computerworld - Smithsonian award as one of the top five technologies of 1998. Rakesh received his MS from the University of Texas at Arlington and his B.Tech from IIT Bombay.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
2
Rakesh Mathur has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 4, 2022, when Fizz raised $4.50M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Oct 4, 2022 Fizz Seed $4.50M Social Detail
Jul 19, 2014 H2O.ai Series A $8.90M Analytics Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Rakesh Mathur has 1 current jobs including Co-Founder & Seed Investor at Percipient.ai , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Percipient.ai Co-Founder & Seed Investor Jan 1, 2017 Detail