Rajesh Srivathsa

Current

• Managing Partner at Ojas Venture Partners

Past

• Business Head, Mobile Terminals Business Unit at Aricent
• VP at Flextronics International
• CTO & Head of Sales and Marketing at Emuzed Inc.

• Member of Technical Staff at Alcatel-Lucent
• Research Staff Member at IBM

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• The University of Texas at Austin
• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

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Connections

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Rajesh Srivathsa’s Summary

Dr. Rajesh Srivathsa (previously Rajesh Rajagopalan) is the Managing Partner of Ojas Venture Partners, a Venture Capital firm focused on investing in early stage startups. Prior to Ojas, Rajesh has worked at IBM Watson Research Center and at Lucent Digital Video (a venture of Lucent Technologies) in research and engineering functions; at Emuzed (a mobile multimedia startup subsequently purchased by Flextronics) as the Head of Sales and Marketing and most recently at Aricent (a KKR, Sequoia and Flextronics owned telecommunications services company) as the business head of the mobile business unit. He holds a Bachelor of Technology, Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign respectively.

Rajesh Srivathsa’s Specialties:

Technology business strategies, business development, marketing

Rajesh Srivathsa’s Experience

• Managing Partner

  Ojas Venture Partners

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Venture capital firm focussing on early stage funding for startups in India

• Business Head, Mobile Terminals Business Unit

  Aricent

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

• VP

  Flextronics International

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

• CTO & Head of Sales and Marketing

  Emuzed Inc.

  (Telecommunications industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years)

• Member of Technical Staff

  Alcatel-Lucent

  (Public Company; ALU; Telecommunications industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

• Research Staff Member

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

Rajesh Srivathsa’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  1993 — 1995

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Masters , Electrical & Communcations , 1990 — 1992

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  Bacheloer of Technology , Electronics and Communications Engineering , 1986 — 1990

Additional Information

Rajesh Srivathsa’s Groups:

•    Near Field Communications Group
•    Startup Specialists
•    The Indian Startup Fraternity

Rajesh Srivathsa’s Contact Settings

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