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Ashish Kakran

Partner @ Sierra Ventures | Backing technical founders in AI & Cloud Infra | Investing Seed to Series A | Investor in Harness, Cohere, Isovalent, Opaque..

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,250,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2025

    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.

  • Investor

    2024

  • Series A Investor

    2024

2023

  • Investor

    2023

2022

  • 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.

2021

  • Investor

    2021

  • 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.

2024

  • Seed Investor

    2024

  • Seed Investor

    2023