Raj Sandhu is founder, entrepreneur and active angel and venture investor. He has founded and run as well as turned around companies. He has also worked in private equity, public equity, late stage venture capital, and investment banking. He began his career in software development and product management. He has served on the boards of a number of portfolio companies. He was co-founder, principal seed investor and chairman of Modulus Video, the leading carrier grade H.264/MPEG-4 video compression systems company, acquired by Motorola. He led the company till its Series A funding. Previously he was a managing director of private equity and venture capital at hedge fund and private equity firm Chatterjee - Soros Group (an affiliate of Soros Fund Management in New York) with $2 billion under management. Prior to that he was a technology banker at Cowen and an early stage venture investor for a small VC firm. He started his career in software development and product management and marketing at Metaphor Computer Systems (acquired by IBM) He has an MBA from Harvard and a BS (computer science and economics, double major) from Yale.

Managing Director @ Venture capital investment firm in areas including emerging platforms, technology systems, software, commerce, social media, wireless and health care systems. Investments that got acquired: iTriage / Healthagen (Aetna), Mertado (Groupon), Movity (Trulia), BitPlay (Jive), Growth Networks (Cisco) Sirocco Systems (Sycamore Networks for $3 bn), Quake Technologies (AMCC), Modulus Video (Motorola/Google). Investments that went public: Fortinet, Molecular Insight. From 2000 to Present (15 years) Member @ Venture capital investment firm in areas including emerging platforms, technology systems, software, commerce, social media, wireless and health care systems. Investments that got acquired: Invite Media (Google), CardPool (BlackHawk Networks/Safeway), iTriage / Healthagen (Aetna), Mertado (Groupon). From 2009 to Present (6 years) Co-Founder, Seed Investor, Chairman, Acting CEO @ He was co-founder, principal seed investor and chairman of Modulus Video, the leading carrier grade H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compression systems company, acquired by Motorola. He led the company prior to its Series A funding. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Managing Director, Partner @ Private equity, venture capital and public equity Investment affiliate of Soros Fund Management with $2 billion under management. Invested in new media, Internet, communications and software companies. Extensively and innovatively sourced investments in the U.S. and Europe, negotiated, closed, served on the boards, led further capital raises. All Investments realized exits at meaningful multiples and none less than invested capital. Companies that went public: Selectica (eCommerce software, peak market capitalization $3+ bn), Update Marketing (Frankfurt, CRM software, peak cap. $500 mm), Promotions.com (Internet promotions, peak cap. $500 mm), Commerce One (eCommerce software and services, peak cap. $10+ bn), and Illuminet Holdings (telecom services, later acquired. by VeriSign for $1.2 bn). Companies that got acquired: JobDirect.com (eCommerce services) by Korn/Ferry International. From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Director @ Technology investment banking, Head of East Coast and Europe Software Banking, Co-head of European Communications Banking. Acquired by Societe Generale. Managed 32 public offerings and private placements worth $2.0 billion, and 13 financial advisory assignments worth $500 million. From 1994 to 1997 (3 years) Software Developer, Product Manager @ From 1983 to 1986 (3 years)

MBA, Business Administration @ Harvard Business SchoolBS, Computer Science, Economics Double Major @ Yale University