Milliways Ventures

2013

Founded

15

Investments

United States

Offices

Venture Fund

Investor Type

About

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.

Portfolio Companies

Passage AI, Motorq, WorkSpan, Trooly, Twinprime, GraphSQL, Robin Systems, Paysa, Geomagical Labs, Lore IO

Gepgraphic Focus

United States

Key Differentiators

Founders with deep technology backgrounds, Experience in building and scaling companies, Willingness to be the sole investor in early funding rounds

Thypical Investment Size

Not publicly disclosed

Total Funds Raised

Not publicly disclosed

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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)

FinTech

Software

Palo Alto

Seed

Series A

United States