John has been an early stage Silicon Valley VC for over two decades. He and Kanwal co-founded Inventus 15 years ago to lead Seed investments when few focused on it. Prior to Inventus, John co-invested with Kanwal in a number of companies, including early financings of Manu Rekhi’s first startup as well as both Raju Reddy and BV Jagadeesh's successful startups Sierra Atlantic (ACQ: Hitachi) and Exodus (IPO:NASDAQ).

 

At Inventus, John is Board member or advisor to Asimily, Credit Sesame, Daxa.ai, Dresma, LivSYT, Motivo.ai, Orbion Space Technology, Resilinc, Rexera, SwingVision and SysCloud. He actively supported or was on the Boards of Dhingana (ACQ: Rdio), FarFaria (ACQ: JumpStart), Poshmark (IPO: NASDAQ), Sokrati (ACQ: Dentsu), Spotzot (ACQ: Valassis), and Vivu (ACQ: Polycom). Prior to venture, John worked in the product groups of category-leading Silicon Valley companies including Sun Microsystems and SGI/Silicon Graphics.

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A San Francisco native, John earned both an MBA and BA from U.C. Berkeley, and is a Charter Member of TiE.