ABOUT US

In a career spanning three decades, Kittu has experienced success as a serial entrepreneur, CEO, senior operating executive, and venture capitalist. Kittu is a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras. He started his career as a software engineer at Silicon Graphics, and later co-founded his first startup, Healtheon/WebMD, which went public in 1999. He then served as the founding CEO of Neoteris, a company respected as much for its stellar team, fiscal management, and culture, as its category creation and leading SSL-based access technology. Following Neoteris’ acquisition, he ran the enterprise security and routing business as EVP/GM at Juniper Networks before becoming a General Partner at NEA in 2006. Kittu left NEA at the end of 2016 to launch Neotribe Ventures in early 2017 with the mission of investing in breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination! As an investor, Kittu has been actively involved with such companies as Aruba Networks, Bloom Energy, The Climate Corporation, Box, Robinhood, Metromile, Velocloud, Cyence, ClearMotion, and MindTickle. He is profiled by acclaimed author Michael Lewis in his book The New New Thing. In March 2016, Kittu was named as one of the Top 100 Venture Capitalists by New York Times/CBInsights and is recognized as one of the best earlystage investors in the industry.

Dharmesh joined Battery Ventures in 2015 to focus on early-venture and growth-equity investments in areas including cloud infrastructure, big data, security and next-generation enterprise applications. He is actively involved with Battery Ventures portfolio companies Arize, Bionic, Collibra, Contrast Security, Cypress.io, Databricks, Fungible, Gong.io, Guardsquare, InfluxData, LinearB, Machinify, Matillion, Narvar, Ordr, Postman, StreamSets, Styra and Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO).

Dharmesh also previously backed Bridgecrew (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT), JASK (acquired by Sumo Logic), JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG), Sensu (acquired by Sumo Logic) and Reflektion (acquired by Sitecore). And since 2020, he has made seed investments in Atmosec, Bit.io, Excision Biotherapeutics, LucidLane, Neuron7, Privacera, Reflect Software and Viam Robotics.

Prior to Battery, Dharmesh was a managing director at Intel Capital, where he led the firm’s global cloud and big-data practice and made early- and later-stage investments in companies globally. He also assisted in long-range strategic planning for Intel’s $14 billion datacenter group. At Intel Capital, Dharmesh was an active board member or investor with companies including: BlueData (acquired by HP Enterprise); Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR); DynamicOps (acquired by VMware); ElasticBox (acquired by CenturyLink); Enlighted (acquired by Siemens); Guavus (acquired by Thales SA); Maginatics (acquired by EMC); Mirantis; MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB); Movidius (acquired by Intel); Saffron Tech (acquired by Intel); ScienceLogic; Vexata; and Yottaa.

Before joining Intel Capital, Dharmesh spent almost a decade in product management and go-to-market roles with enterprise-software companies like Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), Manhattan Associates (Nasdaq: MANH) and two other startups leading to their acquisition. In 2016, Dharmesh was named to the Forbes Midas Brink list of up-and-coming venture capitalists, and in 2018 he was included on Business Insider’s 23 Top Venture Capitalists in Enterprise Tech list. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a BS in electrical engineering, Dharmesh also holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

He is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch, and has a regular column in Forbes.