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Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders, focused on software. We've invested seed in +20 unicorns worth ~$100b combined often 1st check including Deel, Rippling, Ramp, Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Lambda School among others.
Soma Cap partners and advisors have built billion dollar software co's, for example Vivek Ranadive is the founder of multi billion dollar enterprise software company Tibco ($4.3 billion exit to Vista Equity Partners). Tibco services include big data, analytics, event processing, among others, generating over $1bn in yearly revenue and powers 80% of Fortune 500 companies. This gives Soma CEO-level relationships with many of the biggest brands in the world. Vivek has also been involved early investing and mentoring all time great tech companies including google, yahoo, salesforce, ebay and apple.
Soma Cap partners also own the Sacramento Kings NBA team and are developing over 200 acres of land in downtown Sacramento including hotels, condo's, restaurants, malls and more.
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Aneel Ranadive, Managing Director
San Francisco, CA
USA
USA
Sector Focus:
B2B
Healthcare
Fintech
Stage Focus:
Seed Round
Series A Round
Series B+ Round
Soma Capital was founded by Aneel Ranadive, who has over 20 years of experience building and investing in startups. Soma invests globally across multiple sectors in brilliant entrepreneurs who use technology to improve humanity on the largest scales possible. Since inception in early 2015, Soma has invested early in hundreds...
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Mir Faiyaz, Head of Growth Investments
New York, NY
USA
USA
Sector Focus:
B2B
Healthcare
Fintech
Stage Focus:
Series B+ Round
Mir joined Soma Capital in 2020 and focuses on growth-stage investments. Prior to joining Soma Capital, Mir worked at Iconiq Capital's Growth Investing Team a premier late-stage tech VC with investments including Datadog, Zoom, Robinhood, Uber, Airbnb, Snowflake, and Chime, amongst others.
Before Iconiq, Mir worked as a management consultant at...
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Fouad Farhat, Investment Partner
San Francisco, CA
USA
USA
Sector Focus:
B2B
Healthcare
Fintech
Stage Focus:
Seed Round
Series A Round
Fouad joined Soma in 2022 and focuses on early-stage investments, seed portfolio support and growth-stage investments.
Prior to Soma, Fouad worked as a Consultant at Bain & Company’s Private Equity Group. During his time at Bain, Fouad worked on 20+ commercial due diligence on mega-fund buyout deals, primarily focused on the...
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Nikhita Jaaswal, Investment Partner
San Francisco, CA
USA
USA
Sector Focus:
B2B
Healthcare
Fintech
Stage Focus:
Seed Round
Series A Round
Nikhita joined Soma in 2022 and focuses on early-stage investments, seed portfolio support and growth-stage investments.
Prior to Soma, Nikhita worked at L.E.K. Consulting, where she worked on several large-scale due diligence deals for PE clients and strategy cases across technology, life sciences, new-age biotech, and media.
Nikhita graduated from UCLA with...
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