Vineet Buch

Current

Vice President of Corporate Development at Like.com

Past

Partner at BlueRun Ventures
Co-founder and CTO at Riya, Inc (like.com)
Director, Server Advanced Technologies at Oracle Corporation

Co-founder and CTO at Karient, Inc.
Senior Director, Engineering at Corio, Inc
Practice Manager, Consulting at Oracle Corporation

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Education

Cornell University
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Campion School

Campion School, Bhopal

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Vineet Buch’s Summary

Early stage venture investor in Consumer Internet, Mobile, Software and Clean Tech, focusing on both Silicon Valley and India.

My blog is at http://ventureexplorer.typepad.com

Vineet Buch’s Specialties:

Investing in Enterprise Computing (Software and Hardware), Internet Infrastructure, Consumer Internet, Mobile Software and Services, and Clean Technology (Renewable Energy, Water Purification, Smart Grid, etc.)

Vineet Buch’s Experience

Vice President of Corporate Development

Like.com

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

July 2009 — Present (1 month)
Partner

BlueRun Ventures

(Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

March 2005 — June 2009 (4 years 4 months)

Investing in Enterprise Computing, Internet Infrastructure, Mobile Services and Consumer Internet. My firm also invests in Semiconductors, Cleantech and Systems; we are a diversified global venture fund with a presence in the US, Korea, China, India, Israel and Europe.
Co-founder and CTO

Riya, Inc (like.com)

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 2004 — March 2005 (7 months)

Co-founder and CTO of a consumer internet company focused on search inside pictures; the company runs http://www.like.com, a visual search-based shopping site for soft goods such as handbags, shoes, jewelry, watches and clothing.

Currently involved on the board since I'm now at a VC firm, BlueRun Ventures, that invested in Riya.
Director, Server Advanced Technologies

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

December 2001 — 2004 (3 years)

 Managed a distributed product management and software development team (Bay Area and Bangalore)
 Responsible for all performance-related features of the Oracle Database. Worked on Oracle9i Database Release 2 and Oracle Database 10g and drove a 28% increase in product performance.
 Planned and oversaw execution of all published performance benchmarks at Oracle for Database, Application Server, SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle Applications.
 Guided Oracle from a lagging position in Database and Application Server benchmarks to world records in TPC-C, TPC-H, ECPerf and SPECjAppServer benchmarks
 Keynote speaker at Oracle customer events
 Responsible for Oracle’s technology relationship with SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and SAS with the goal of increasing usage of Oracle Database by customers of these ISVs.
 Represented Oracle to the media on Performance issues – e.g., see http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4282
Co-founder and CTO

Karient, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — November 2001 (11 months)

- Developed business plan for a system management software company, specifically targeting operations management at large service providers and IT shops.
- Investigated market size, product requirements and competition
- Helped raise $1M from angel investors and launched Karient.
- Wrote functional specification of Karient v 1.0n Presented Karient vision to early adopter customers and secured four development partners, including a Fortune 500 financial services firm
- Pitched Karient to the venture community and helped secure $3M in Series B funding
Senior Director, Engineering

Corio, Inc

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CRIO; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 4 months)

- Conceived and brought to market Corio eMarket, the first integrated hosted software suite for B2B marketplaces.
- Developed solution profile, negotiated with and integrated ISV partners, helped close first two customers, launched the solution offering and transitioned it to Corio Sales. See http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/360071
- Developed software to automate Corio’s IT operations. Corio, a leading Application Service Provider, used this software to move from a manual, one-off customer deployment model to standardized, easily replicated operations, reducing costs as well as operational errors
- Hired and managed a team of 18 developers and product managers
Practice Manager, Consulting

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 8 months)

- Led a consulting practice focused on enterprise application architecture, focusing on multi-billion dollar accounts in the Manufacturing sector. Clients included Cisco Systems, Motorola, GE, Honeywell and Sun Microsystems.
- Successfully delivered projects costing several million dollars and employing up to 100 people drawn from Oracle, the client and third-party vendors

Vineet Buch’s Education

Cornell University

M.S. , Computer Science , September 1993 — December 1995
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

B. Tech. , Computer Science , 1989 — 1993
Campion School

High School , High School , 1983 — 1989
Campion School, Bhopal

High School , High School , 1983 — 1989