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Milliways Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in innovative and impactful technology investments. Founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, both former Amazon executives, the firm leverages their extensive experience in building and scaling technology companies. Their investment philosophy centers on supporting visionary founders and groundbreaking technologies from the outset, often participating as the sole investor in early funding rounds.
The team has a strong track record, having founded companies like Junglee (acquired by Amazon) and Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), and invested in Facebook in 2005. They have also led initiatives such as Amazon.com's Marketplace and Mechanical Turk, and @WalmartLabs. Their portfolio includes companies like Passage AI, Motorq, WorkSpan, Trooly, Twinprime, GraphSQL, Robin Systems, Paysa, Geomagical Labs, and Lore IO.
Prior investments include Kosmix, Facebook, Efficient Frontier, Aster Data Systems, Lyft, Whisper, Snapdeal, TutorVista, Appnexus, Jasper Design Automation, Kaltix, Transformic, Neoteris, Hightail, Indian Infoline, Blueshift, Clearstory, Cliqr, Gild, Indix, Joyus, Locbox, Lumoid, OpsClarity, Punchtab, Qubole, Trifacta, uBiome, Yerdle, Zettata, and DocsApp.
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)
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