Ashish Kakran
Principal at Thomvest Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2025 - Current
Sierra Ventures is an venture capital firm founded in 1982, with over $2 billion invested across 13 funds. Currently deploying $270 million Fund XIII, Sierra partners with visionary B2B founders at the Seed and Series A stages. The firm offers deep operational support and access to a robust CXO Advisory Board of Fortune 1000 executives, helping startups scale in enterprise software, AI, infrastructure.
Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on next generation enterprise and emerging technologies.
Investor
2024
Relyance AI delivers data compliance solutions that enhance visibility and security.
Raised $62,000,000.00 from Cheyenne Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Thomvest Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures.
Series A Investor
2024
Investor
2023
Investor, observer
2022
* Acquired by Cisco * sourced the deal and attended Board meetings * Isovalent created eBPF and Cilium open-source projects. eBPF makes the kernel programmable and Cilium is used by massive enterprises to connect, secure and observer their Kubernetes clusters.
Isovalent builds open-source networking, service mesh, security, and observability software for modern cloud-native infrastructure
Raised $69,000,000.00 from Mirae Asset Capital, Cisco, Grafana Accelerator Program, Andreessen Horowitz, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Mango Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Google.
Investor
2021
Harness is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.
Raised $575,000,000.00 from Hercules Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.
Investor and Board Observer
2022
Opaque is the first confidential computing platform that enables secure data sharing, multi-party analytics and machine learning on encrypted data.
CMU TECH Advisory Board
2023
CMU's Technical Entrepreneur Coaching Hub (TECH) focuses on helping technical professionals in Silicon Valley who aspire to become technical founders.
Seed Investor
2024
Seed Investor
2023