Salil Deshpande Biography

Salil Deshpande is focusing on infrastructure software, open source, and crypto. He has invested $350M into 52 companies over 13 years, mostly early, including MuleSoft, DynaTrace, Lending Club, Buddy Media, SpringSource, Redis Labs, SysDig, Basis, Compound, Jambool, Dropcam, Tealium, Lightbend, Hazelcast, Groovy & Grails, Gradle, Sonatype, Frame, DataStax, Zeroturnaround, and Philz Coffee. Salil also inherited Tealeaf and served on its board for three years prior to its acquisition by IBM. I was on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018; and on the CB Insights list of 100 top venture capitalists in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. He was founder and CEO of Customware a CORBA middleware company, co-founder and CEO of The Middleware Company a Java middleware company and of TheServerSide.com network of developer media sites. Salil taught summer courses at Stanford University. Salil received an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

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