Our Team

Deepak Bhagat

Co-founder, Managing Partner High Tech Leader (SAP, SUN, HP, Startups)

A Senior accomplished product & technology leader with 30+ years of experience in leadership roles at SAP, Sun, Hewlett-Packard and startups resulting in industry leading products and solutions in Private and Public Cloud, AI, Servers, Workstations, Networking, Security, Grid Computing, and Startups which generated billions of dollars of revenues for the companies. He co-founded the TiE Angels Fund, invested in and advised many startups with many successful exits.

Focus Area: Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure, Operating Systems, Systems Software, Performance Engineering, AI/ML (Conversational, Ops, Infrastructure), Storage, Edge Computing, Security, SaaS, Testing, Quality, Compliance, ISV Certifications, Startups.

Areas of Expertise: ● Customer Requirements, Product Strategy, Roadmaps, Architecture
● Product Development (all phases – concept to release), Post-Release Support
● New Products Evaluation, POCs, Acquisitions, ISV Certifications
● Top tier global engineering team building
● Go-to-Market
● Strategic Partnership Management
● Startups Evaluation and VC Funding

Education: B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, IIT (Kanpur), India; Recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA: 2001) M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), IEEE Outstanding Paper Award; Core member of CWRU’s Silicon Valley Think-Tank.

Vic Kulkarni

Co-founder, Managing Partner

Seasoned technology entrepreneur and executive with 40+ years of experience in semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industries, including National Semiconductor, Fairchild, VLSI Technology, Meta-Software, Avant! Sequence Design, Ansys, Si2, Advisor and Angel Investor in Silicon Catalyst enabling silicon startups.

Focus Area: Innovative shift-left solutions to achieve faster time to results and time to market for multi-domain simulation technology, power and energy-efficient designs and sign-off workflows for Tier 1 worldwide semiconductor, system, startups and US Defense companies.

Areas of Expertise: ● Driver for R&D innovations in silicon IP, low-power and thermal designs, multi-physics simulations, & silicon to system interoperability
● Successfully delivered innovative products and solutions in: RTL-to-gate IP and SoC low power-thermal design, SoC parasitic extraction, IP libraries, multi-physics simulation, emerging IP-silicon-to- system EDA interoperability
● Technology acquisitions and management in India, France, North America, Canada and Greece
● Global R&D, new product planning, roadmaps, product launches
● Product roadmap and strategy, business development, market-product fit and GTM, positioning, evangelism
● Advisor for emerging startups, mentor, Executive panels, BoD Member

Education: B. Tech, Electrical Engineering, IIT (Bombay), India. M.S. Electrical Engineering (Solid State Electronics with thesis) University of Cincinnati; Recipient, Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2007 Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2023

Prakash Narayan

Co-founder, Managing Partner

Over 20 years' experience in all phases of software development life cycle from concept to delivery. Experience in designing, driving implementation of mobile applications with client-server architecture encompassing aggregation and delivery of high value data.

Focus Area: ● Product vision, strategy, S/W development, delivery
● Media, Blogger Community, Analyst relations
● Build partner alliances, nurture mutually beneficial business relationships
● Speaker and Author

Areas of Expertise: ● Deep understanding of Social Networking software
● From requirements to application development at a technical and user level
● Managing and driving complex projects on schedule to completion
● Deliver Industry Seminars, White Papers on Java technologies, Social Networking
● Excellent grasp of Software Development Tools, OS programming, application tuning & analysis
● Strong organization skills, excellent people skills, and negotiation/problem solving skills
● Build partner alliances, nurtured mutually beneficial relationships, interacted with VCs / Analysts

Education: B. Tech. Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India M.S, Computer Science, IIT (Delhi), India

Sunil Rahan

Senior Partner

Over 30+ years of experience in the Semiconductor industry - Intel, SanDisk/WDC & Marvell. Extensive experience working with internal fabs, Silicon foundries and A/T manufacturers. Proven track record in ramping multiple leading-edge chips, microprocessors & Memory products from first Silicon to HVM.

Focus Area: Semiconductor Engineering and Operations, Product Engineering & Test, System Validation, Quality & Reliability, A/T Manufacturing.

Areas of Expertise: ● Experience in delivering complex products from first Silicon to High Volume Manufacturing (HVM)
● Product Engineering & Test, System Validation & Customer Management
● A/T Operations & Manufacturing – Worked Extensively with A/T factories across the globe, Yield Improvement, Cost Reduction
● Quality - Implementing QMS and driving Quality discipline
● Reliability - Product and Customer Qualification, Failure Analysis, DPM reduction
● Developing and training talent, Excellent people skills, Expertise in debugging and solving complex problems

Education: M.S Electrical Engineering (Solid State Electronics with Thesis), University of Cincinnati, USA Bachelor in Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India

Santokh Singh

Senior Partner

Senior Engineering and Operational professional with 30+ years of industry experience in managing products from strategy to execution and help companies achieve their strategic goals by optimizing engineering resources and manufacturing operations.

Focus Area: Data Storage, System integration, Program management, Failure analysis, Manufacturing process, HVM and cost management,

Areas of Expertise: ● Experienced management professional in setting up manufacturing. processes in factories including contract manufacturing partners to achieve efficiency and profitability by ensuring on time delivery of products within budget by working closely with other stakeholders
● Built teams to lead Software tool development for Enterprise storage products
● Systems development & Integration
● Held senior management positions in product innovation, program management, systems, failure analysis, software tools, product engineering, Mfg. test process and yield management.
● Participated in raising funding from the VC community as co-founder of Castlewood System - backup data storage company, Akroria networks, Orion Systems -optical switching companies. Managed lead Operations/Engineering positions in storage/optical switching ventures.
● Managed subcontractors for Pilot and HVM Mfg. in Asia

Education: B.S Mechanical Engineering, PEC Chandigarh, India M.S Mechanical Engineering with thesis in Thermal systems, University of California, Berkeley.

Bhupendra Ahuja

Senior Partner

Senior IC Design professional with expertise in Analog and Mixed Signal integrated circuits (IC's). Technical lead of numerous Analog IC products for over 30+ years at public and startup companies like Intel, Intersil, NeoMagic, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Synaptics. Published and received numerous patents in areas of Telecom ICs, Communications, Micro-computer and controller and Consumer/Automotive applications.

Focus Area: Analog IPs like High-speed PLL, SERDES (3 to 16Gbps) for USB/PCIe/CEI/Display/Auto applications, ADC/DACs and PVT monitors.

Areas of Expertise: ● Advanced CMOS technology nodes 7nm to 16nm Finfet and from 22nm to 180nm from TSMC, Global Foundry and UMC.
● Circuit/System/Architectural designs using Cadence/MATLAB for various functional blocks/IP specifications and circuit design
● Leading design teams through design to tape-out and post silicon evaluations.
● Work with Marketing/Product/Quality/Reliability teams to full production.

Awards/Recognitions: ● Fellow IEEE
● 16 patents and 25+ technical publications (IEEE)
● Intel Achievement Award.

Education: B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, IIT (Kanpur), India M.S. & PhD. Electronics Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada