Arvind Purushotham
Director/Board Member at Mobius Microsystems, Inc.
Profile
Arvind Purushotham is the Global Head of Citi Ventures.
He leads the team’s efforts to catalyze innovation and accelerate growth across Citi by bringing the outside in, building and incubating new capabilities, and delivering thought leadership throughout both the bank and the finance and tech ecosystems.
Arvind also serves as Citi Ventures’ Global Head of Venture Investing, overseeing all of the group’s venture investing activities and partnering with both Citi colleagues and leading startups to bring cutting-edge technologies and capabilities to Citi’s businesses and functions.
In addition, he advises the Citi Impact Fund, which invests in "double bottom line" U.S.-based private sector companies that are helping address some of society's most pressing challenges.
Prior to Citi, Arvind spent nearly a decade as a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, where he was an investor and Board member at companies including Kazeon Systems, Cavium Networks, Solidcore, nCircle Network Security, Intelligent Results, and Vhayu Technologies.
Previously, Arvind was a design engineer and a Program Manager at Intel Corporation.
Arvind obtained his BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MSEE from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
He enjoys running, photography, and reading in his spare time.
Arvind is passionate about golf—a passion, sadly, that his skill level does not match.
He lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, two sons, and their black lab Rocky.
Arvind Purushotham active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Mobius Microsystems, Inc.
 Mobius Microsystems, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Mobius Microsystems, Inc. develops all-silicon oscillator technology. The company was founded by Michael McCorquodale on January 29, 2002 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI. | Director/Board Member | - |
Citi Ventures, Inc.
 Citi Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Citi Ventures Inc. (Citi Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary founded in 2007 by Deborah C. Hopkins. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Private Equity Investor | 09/05/2012 |
Pindrop Security, Inc.
 Pindrop Security, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pindrop Security, Inc. provides enterprise solutions that help prevent phone-based fraud. Its products include phone reputation service, fraud detection system, call forward protection, and phone fraud solutions for high risk industries. The firm?s solution combines authentication and anti-fraud detection technology to verify legitimate callers while detecting malicious callers. Its Phoneprinting technology is the first of its kind to analyze and fingerprint individual phone calls, providing the caller?s true location and calling device. It operates through its offices located in Atlanta and Toronto. The company was founded by Vijay A. Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Patrick Traynor and Paul Q. Judge in 2011 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of Arvind Purushotham
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Enuclia Semiconductor, Inc.
 Enuclia Semiconductor, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Enuclia Semiconductor, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It provides its products and services to flat panel television manufacturers. The company was founded in 2003 by Carl Ruggiero and Christian Prusia and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR. | Director/Board Member | 27/02/2012 |
Menlo Ventures Management LP
 Menlo Ventures Management LP Investment ManagersFinance Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Private Equity Investor | 30/11/2010 |
nCircle Network Security, Inc.
 nCircle Network Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services nCircle Network Security, Inc. sells software that helps large enterprises and government agencies manage information technology security and compliance auditing needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Chef Software, Inc.
 Chef Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Chef Software, Inc. develops and publishes software solutions for company and configuration management. Its products includes enterprise automation stack, chef automate, infra, inspec, habitat. The company was founded by Adam Brent Jacob, Nathan Haneysmith, Barry Steinglass, and Jesse G. Robbins in 2008 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Click Security, Inc.
 Click Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Click Security, Inc. provides network security analytics services. It provides services to enterprises, higher education, critical infrastructure and government agencies. The firm’s solutions include unknown threat detection, embedded malware identification, threat prioritization, early warning indicators, attack visibility-application and network perspectives, and broad context data leakage monitoring. The company was founded by Marc Willebeek-LeMair and Brian C. Smith in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Training of Arvind Purushotham
| Case Western Reserve University | Graduate Degree |
| Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Undergraduate Degree |
| Harvard Business School | Masters Business Admin |
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Linked companies
| Listed companies | 1 |
|---|---|
| INTEL CORPORATION | Electronic Technology |
| Private companies | 17 |
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Menlo Ventures Management LP
Menlo Ventures Management LP Investment ManagersFinance Menlo Ventures Management LP (Menlo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by DuBose Montgomery. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Intelligent Results, Inc.
 Intelligent Results, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Intelligent Results, Inc. provides customer analytics and decision management software solutions. The company was founded by Michael McCauley Meyer, Brian Lent and Kelly A. Pennock in 2001 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. | Technology Services |
Vhayu Technologies Corp.
 Vhayu Technologies Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Vhayu Technologies Corp. provides enterprise tick data solutions. Its customers include brokers, dealers, online discount brokers, hedge funds, and market data providers. The company was founded by Tejpal Chadha and Ken Williams in 1998 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA. | Technology Services |
Xpedion Design Systems, Inc.
 Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. provided simulation, analysis and behavioral modeling solutions. It offered services to RFIC/Wireless and high frequency System-on-Chip (SoC) designers. The company has sales offices in France, Sweden and in UK. It was founded by Edouard Ngoya and Jean Rousset in 1998. The company was headquartered in Milpitas, CA. | Communications |
Enuclia Semiconductor, Inc.
Enuclia Semiconductor, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Enuclia Semiconductor, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. It provides its products and services to flat panel television manufacturers. The company was founded in 2003 by Carl Ruggiero and Christian Prusia and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR. | Electronic Technology |
RS Investment Management Co. LLC
 RS Investment Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance RS Investment Management Co. LLC (also known as RS Investments) is an investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1986, the firm was acquired by Victory Capital Management, Inc. from The Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America in July 2016. They operate as an independent franchise within Victory Capital's multi-boutique model. Each of the teams within the RS franchise continues to operate autonomously. RS Investments provides investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutions, private pooled investment vehicles, and high net-worth individuals. | Finance |
Cavium, Inc.
 Cavium, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Cavium, Inc. was engaged in the provision of integrated semiconductor processors which enables intelligent processing for wired and wireless infrastructure and cloud for networking, communications, storage, and security applications. The company was founded by Syed Basharat Ali and Muhammad Raghib Hussain in November 2000 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Intransa, Inc.
 Intransa, Inc. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology Intransa, Inc. provides intelligent Internet protocol storage solutions. Its products are client proven infrastructure choice for video surveillance, access control, industrial video and video analytics software. The firm’s product customers are found in environments, including retail and banking, public safety and law enforcement, gaming and hospitality, schools and education, manufacturing and supply chain, government, transportation, hospitals and medical centers and many others. The company was founded by Peter Wang and Ismail Dalgic in September 2000 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Matisse Networks, Inc.
 Matisse Networks, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Matisse Networks' EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Swtich is revolutionizing optical networking by improving efficiency up to 50% over circuit-oriented networks. EtherBurst simplifies the network by reducing equipment requirements and operational expenses, resulting in the lowest total cost of ownership of any optical network. The EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch is the most efficient way to scale Carrier Ethernet networks. The EtherBurst Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch provides zero-touch optical networking that accelerates service velocity by overcoming the inefficiencies and complexities of circuit-oriented optical transport networks. EtherBurst is the first commercially available Optical Carrier Ethernet Switch based upon Ring OBS technology. Matisse has been awarded numerous patents and industry recognition awards for its breakthrough research and development in the field of optical networking. Matisse Networks is a privately held company located in Mountian View, CA. | Technology Services |
Solidcore Systems, Inc.
 Solidcore Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Solidcore Systems, Inc. develops control solutions for computer devices and applications with embedded operating systems. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
Kazeon Systems, Inc.
 Kazeon Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Kazeon Systems, Inc. provides information management and eDiscovery solutions. The firm specializes in data privacy and security, legal eDiscovery readiness, storage optimization and consolidation. Kazeon Systems was founded by Alex Kushnir, Muddu Sudhakar and Christos Tryfonas in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
Mobius Microsystems, Inc.
Mobius Microsystems, Inc. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Mobius Microsystems, Inc. develops all-silicon oscillator technology. The company was founded by Michael McCorquodale on January 29, 2002 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI. | Electronic Technology |
Citi Ventures, Inc.
Citi Ventures, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Citi Ventures Inc. (Citi Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary founded in 2007 by Deborah C. Hopkins. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Click Security, Inc.
Click Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Click Security, Inc. provides network security analytics services. It provides services to enterprises, higher education, critical infrastructure and government agencies. The firm’s solutions include unknown threat detection, embedded malware identification, threat prioritization, early warning indicators, attack visibility-application and network perspectives, and broad context data leakage monitoring. The company was founded by Marc Willebeek-LeMair and Brian C. Smith in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
Chef Software, Inc.
Chef Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Chef Software, Inc. develops and publishes software solutions for company and configuration management. Its products includes enterprise automation stack, chef automate, infra, inspec, habitat. The company was founded by Adam Brent Jacob, Nathan Haneysmith, Barry Steinglass, and Jesse G. Robbins in 2008 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Technology Services |
Pindrop Security, Inc.
Pindrop Security, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pindrop Security, Inc. provides enterprise solutions that help prevent phone-based fraud. Its products include phone reputation service, fraud detection system, call forward protection, and phone fraud solutions for high risk industries. The firm?s solution combines authentication and anti-fraud detection technology to verify legitimate callers while detecting malicious callers. Its Phoneprinting technology is the first of its kind to analyze and fingerprint individual phone calls, providing the caller?s true location and calling device. It operates through its offices located in Atlanta and Toronto. The company was founded by Vijay A. Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Patrick Traynor and Paul Q. Judge in 2011 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. | Commercial Services |
nCircle Network Security, Inc.
nCircle Network Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services nCircle Network Security, Inc. sells software that helps large enterprises and government agencies manage information technology security and compliance auditing needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
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