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Umesh Padval is a partner at Thomvest partner at Thomvest Ventures in San Francisco, California. He focuses on venture capital investments in cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure. He currently serves on the private company boards of Bolster, Shiftleft, Clari, Shield X, Avalanche Technology, and Tactus and the public company board of Impinj. He is also an investor in Baffle and Harness. He has extensive board experience serving on over 30 public and private company boards and several audit, compensation and nominating, and governance committees. Before joining Thomvest, Umesh was a successful entrepreneur, investor, and CEO of a public company. He most recently worked for over 8 years at Bessemer Venture Partners in their office in Menlo Park. Before Bessemer, he worked as an executive vice president at LSI after it acquired a public video infrastructure and distribution company, C-Cube Microsystems. At C-Cube, Umesh served as president and CEO and grew the company profitably to over $300m in revenue and 500 employees with a global presence.
Previously he was a Board Member at Lastline(Private, Sold to VMware), Blue Willow Systems (Private, Sold to Philips), Avnera (Private, Sold to Skyworks), Skyhigh Networks (Private, Sold to McAfee), Mellanox (Public, Sold to Nvidia), IDT(Public, Sold to Renesas), C-Cube Microsystems (Public, Sold to LSI), Entropic Communications (Public, Sold to Maxlinear), Silicon Image (Public, Sold to Lattice), Elantec (Public, Sold to Intersil), Berkeley Design Automation (Private, Sold to Mentor Graphics), Monolithic Power Systems (Public), Tilera (Private, Sold to EZchip) and PA Semi (Private, Sold to Apple). He was also an investor in Thousand Eyes( Private, Sold to Cisco) and Cylance( Private, Sold to Blackberry).
Umesh holds a Bachelor's in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and a Master’s in Engineering from Stanford University. He has served on several advisory boards at Stanford University and currently serves on the board of Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Sutter Medical Group.
Location
San Francisco, California, United States, North America
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Primary Organization
1996
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Financial Services, Venture Capital, Cyber Security, Cloud Infrastructure
Jobs history
7
Xtreme Power Conversion
Board of Director
Invalid date - Current
Board Observer
2019 - Current
Cylance
Investor
2016 - 2019
Impinj
Member of the board of directors
2020 - Current
ThousandEyes
Investor
2019 - 2020
Member of the board of directors
2018 - Current
Member of the board of directors
2019 - Current
Board and Advisor Roles
0
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Profile Resume
Umesh Padval is the Venture Partner at Thomvest Ventures, based in United States, North America. With a background in Financial Services, Umesh Padval has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Umesh Padval studied M.S. Engineering @ Stanford University. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.
Investment portfolio
7
6
Personal investment
7
Annouced Date | Organization Name | Funding Round | Money Raised |
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Mar 15, 2015 | ClipMine | Seed Round - ClipMine | 1.1M |
Jun 30, 2015 | Blue Willow Systems | Seed Round - Blue Willow Systems | 2.5M |
Feb 10, 2016 | Zum | Seed Round - Zum | 2.5M |
Mar 14, 2016 | VOKE | Series A - VOKE | 12.5M |
Partner investment
20
Annouced Date | Organization Name | Funding Round | Investor Name | Money Raised |
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Sep 07, 2022 | Isovalent | Series B - Isovalent | Thomvest Ventures | 40.0M |
Oct 18, 2022 | - | Series A - Bolster AI | Thomvest Ventures | 15.0M |
May 02, 2023 | Cohere | Series C - Cohere | Thomvest Ventures | 270.0M |
Mar 05, 2024 | appCD | Seed Round - appCD | Thomvest Ventures | 6.0M |
Exits
6
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