Founded in 2013, Milliways Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Altos, California. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage firms operating in the technology sector.
Milliways Ventures has a record of both entrepreneurship as well as investment. They have created companies of over $1 billion in value and were early investors in Facebook, Lyft and Whisper.
Milliways Ventures founders founded two companies, a venture fund, and led breakthrough efforts in large companies. They started Junglee (acquired by Amazon.com) and Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), as well as Cambrian Ventures. They helped create Amazon.com's marketplace business, the concept underlying Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk, and @WalmartLabs, the innovation arm for the world's largest retailer.
Milliways Ventures has made investments in Aibono, Motorq, Zenprivex, Passage AI, Troo.ly, Paysa, Robin.io, HyperVerge, Cuberon, Descartes Labs, Twin Prime, Inksedge and TigerGraph.
They exited their investments in Troo.ly and Twin Prime.
Timeline
Funded Companies
HyperVerge is an AI company with solutions powering applications for large enterprise clients in Financial Services, Telecom, Energy, Security, and Defense.
Passage AI is a Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California-based artificial intelligence company founded by Ravi N. Raj.
Motorq is a company founded by Vivek Malipatil.
People
Anand Rajaraman
Founder and Partner
Katelin Moore
Executive Assistant
Sailesh Ramakrishnan
Employee
Venky Harinarayan
Founder and Partner