Aneel Ranadive

Managing Partner

2015

Soma believes out of 115+ billion people who lived the last 200,000 yrs there's a handful of 'superhumans' who put humanity on their shoulders and push civilization forward. Our north star mission is finding and supporting them to the absolute extreme maximum! Since starting in 2015, Soma seeded 30 'unicorns' like Rippling, Ramp, Deel, Cognition, Mercor, Etched, Zeromatter, Rappi, Razorpay, Astranis, Gecko, Solugen, among others. Soma was founded by Aneel Ranadive who built startups and Soma for a combined 20 yrs. Aneel comes from a lineage of entrepreneurship - his father Vivek Ranadive was an immigrant from Mumbai and built Tibco software from to billions in revenue as a profitable, public company (4.3b exit to Vista). Tibco digitized Wall Street in the 90's and scaled to power 80% of Fortune 500 companies. Vivek also seeded and mentored google, yahoo, salesforce, ebay, to steve jobs, and later bought the Golden State Warriors in 2010 and then the Sacramento Kings NBA team in 2013.

CEO and Cofounder

2013 - 2015

Tag is the best way to stay in touch with close friends. Send a “Tag” with your location to a few friends to let them know what you’re up to. You can attach a picture, message, or both. In one click, they can Tag you back to respond with their own location and can also include a picture and message.

CEO and Cofounder

2010 - 2013

Pinchit is an online scrapbook for your city to share and discover new experiences. The company is backed by great angel investors including Facebook Cofounder Eduardo Saverin and Tim Draper.

Product Manager

2009 - 2010

Led product at Nielsen mobile creating mobile applications for TV shows including Grey's Anatomy and My Generation

Analyst

2009 - 2009

Director of Business Development

2008 - 2009

Video analytics startup helping advertisers and publishers make decisions on how to optimize and better monetize their video content and ad assets Scaled customer base to companies including Time Warner and Facebook Aquired by Nielsen

CEO and Cofounder

2007 - 2008

Anonymous social network backed by Redpoint Ventures. BoredAt's mission was to compile the collective consciousness of the world and provide communities like schools, companies and interest groups with a platform to share thoughts. BoredAt was founded in 2006 and launched in early 2007 to colleges and companies achieving rapid viral growth as a real-time communication platform.

Investment Banking Analyst

2006 - 2007

Performed analysis and developed operational, financial and valuation models and conducted industry competitive analysis for private & publicly traded companies in the media, telecom and technology industries