They invest and support founders from seed|Praveen Akkiraju,Managing Director,Insight Partners 00:10:00
Praveen brings a product and operational lens to investing in passionate entrepreneurs who seek to challenge the status quo in the areas of Automation, Data platforms, DevOps, and Infrastructure software. He spent the early part of his career in the trenches, building products and scaling engineering teams to build world class platforms in highly competitive market segments. Prior to Insight, Praveen served as a Managing Partner at the Softbank Vision Fund where he lead the Enterprise and SaaS investment practice. His investments include Automation Anywhere and the Team8 Startup foundry where he currently serves as board advisor. Praveen has also served as the CEO at VCE, an Enterprise Cloud infrastructure company that created a new market category and became one of the fastest Data Center companies to achieve US$1bn in revenues.