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about us
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Dot Edu is a university based
network of friends, spanning computer science and engineering faculty,
students, and alumni at various US universities. Founded in March
2000 by Asha Jadeja, Dot Edu began as a small core group of entrepreneurial
friends at Stanford and UC Berkeley. It is now an extensive network
of computer science and engineering faculty at various universities,
including CMU, MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, U
Penn, Princeton, Washington University, UC San Diego and UC Santa
Barbara. Dot Edu consists of three components:
- A modest fund to allow seed stage
investment in cutting edge ideas and technologies built around
doctoral and post-doctoral research. Examples of graduate
student and faculty research in our group that have resulted
into excellent internet companies are Google, Akamai and Inktomi
others.
- A network of pro-active limited partners,
with a strong commitment to mentoring the companies in our
portfolio.
- Regular workshops for exchange and
promotion of ideas for future research. We believe that insights
derived from hands on interactions of academia with the new
economy industry, has created and will continue to create
true shifts in the paradigms of technology. Only, this time
at web speed.
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Asha Jadeja
Asha founded Dot Edu Ventures in March 2000 to fund innovative technologies
emerging from top US universities. Among her many investments are
Bytemobile, Kaltix (now Google), Jareva (now Veritas), and Mimosa
Systems.
Alongside her career in venture capital Asha founded and ran as
CEO iScale Inc, a peered networking company for distributing large
file content across the internet using proprietary technology. Before
iScale Asha was an angel investor and advisor in various silicon
valley startups.
Asha studied civil engineering for undergrad in India and transitioned
into urban planning and policy studies for graduate studies at USC,
UC Berkeley, and Stanford. She held several research and analyst
positions at multinational agencies such as the United Nations'
Transnationals Corporation and the World Bank while pursuing graduate
studies. Her civil engineering and urban planning work included
projects such as the Los Angeles Metro Rail.
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Rajeev Motwani
Rajeev is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University,
where he also serves as the director of graduate studies. He has
been at Stanford since 1988, after obtaining a PhD in Computer Science
from Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT
Kanpur in 1983. Motwani is well-known for his research in several
areas of computer science, including databases and data mining,
web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug
design, and theoretical computer science. He has written two books
used at universities all over the world -- Randomized Algorithms
published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate
textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001.
Motwani has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research
Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann
Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation,
and an IBM Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics
and currently serves on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on
Computing, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is responsible for numerous
software patents. He has supervised many PhD students who have gone
on to become faculty members at universities such as MIT, Princeton,
and University of Pennsylvania, or hold positions at research labs
such as AT&T and Bell Labs.
Many startups in the Silicon Valley are founded or staffed by people
who were Motwani's students at Stanford. He is an avid angel and
seed investor, advisor to several venture funds, a charter member
of TIE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs), and on the board of BASES (Business
Association of Stanford Engineering Students). He serves as a board
member or advisor to several companies, including: Agitar, Asempra,
Centrata, Chutney, Coral8, Flarion, Flexlogics, Google, GreenBorder,
Jumpstartup Ventures, Meru Networks, Mimosa, Neopath Networks, Revenue
Science, Sinett, and Xambala.
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Casey McGlynn
Casey McGlynn, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati, heads
one of the largest new venture practices at the firm. He is a nationally
recognized leader in the representation of startup and emerging growth
technology companies.
Casey's practice focuses on the organization, funding and corporate
representation of companies in the information technology and life
sciences industries. His group assists entrepreneurs in forming many
new companies each year. The group has provided assistance to hundreds
of companies in the Internet, life sciences, semiconductor, software
and telecommunications industries.
As a veteran angel investor himself, and an advisor to Angel Investors
Inc, bay area’s largest angel fund, Casey advises Asha on several
aspects of running a venture fund including deal structure, venture
financing, and management of the fund.
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Mike Kranz
CFO
Mike Kranz's practise spans over 20 years. Kranz and his firm Kranz
and Associates have numerous bay area venture capital firms and
related start-ups as clients.
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Priya Jadeja
Associate
Priya is an Electronics Engineer with an advanced specialization
in Finance as an MBA. A detail oriented individual, she believes
deeply in the integrity of business processes. Having spent 6 years
at the Indian Institute of Management, her experience also spans
business intelligence analysis for a leading European firm. Priya
is currently exploring investment options in the Indian sub-continent
in addition to assisting the financial and legal teams at Dot Edu.
Priya can
be contacted at: priya@doteduventures.com
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Angela Owens
Office Manager
Angela can be contacted at: angela@doteduventures.com
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