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.