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Min Investment:
$25,000.00Max Investment:
$2,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Lists including Raghu
Work Experience
2022
Chairman
2022
2008
Founder & Board Member
2008
Savoring the journey without having to do the driving 🙂
Founder, Chairman & CEO
2008 - 2015
Founder, Chairman & CEO. Forbes List of America's Most Promising Companies - 2013 Inc 500 List of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies - 2013, 2014, 2015 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 - 2013, 2014, 2015 Forrester Wave: Leader - 2014 Portland Business Journal Tech CEO of the Year - 2015 http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2015/01/30/ceos-of-the-year-tech-raghu-raghavan-of-acton.html
2016
Board Member
2016
Board Member
2016
2017
Partner
2017
Partner in impact fund focused on diversity and inclusion. The fund provides aspiring entrepreneurs from under-served groups with venture capital and guidance to turn their startups into great companies.
2016 - 2019
Board Member
2016 - 2019
1998 - 2006
Co-Founder & CTO
1998 - 2006
One of two founders. Conceived, architected and built pioneering online marketing application service on a multi-tenanted SaaS platform. Built top-notch product development organization spanning 3 geographic locations. IPO in 2011 (NASDAQ: MKTG). Hurray! Acquired by Oracle in December 2013 for $1.5B.
1993 - 1998
President
1993 - 1998
Boutique software company that developed and licensed C++ and Java technology and components. The Indius Java Components were among the earliest in the industry, featured on Netscape's website and adopted by hot startups like Ariba.
1989 - 1993
Director of Technology
1989 - 1993
Built the team and led the development of one of the first client server systems (Windows 3 front-end, Oracle mainframe back-end) for HR administration. This was pre Peoplesoft. Fortune 500 clients for the system. Watson Wyatt company has now become Towers Watson, and is one of the pre-eminent global professional services firm in the areas of people, risk and financial management.
1983 - 1989
Software Architect
1983 - 1989
Led the development of the company's first IC layout system. Later on, took over the company's common user interface platform, which was a custom windowing system (multiple windows, keyboard and mouse support, drag and drop, bit-blt scrolling, etc.) for Apollo workstations. Part of the team at Mentor Graphics that worked closely with Bjarne Stroustrup on the development and evolution of C++ (we were among the first users of the language).